DRIVING A HARD BARGAIN There was a man in Indiana who had a way of taking his own advice, though he generally had to do things afterward to get even with himself. He was a…
Sermon Illustrations
WHOM WE WORSHIP One of the real problems of our time is the near celebrity status of many preachers. Many men are almost worshipped by their followers. Lyman Beecher Stowe wrote a book entitled, Saints,…
VALVES OPEN TO POWER Frank Laubach, one of the great inspiring persons of this century, tells a story about the time he was in India and decided to take a tour of new electro-generating plant.…
LITTLE OMISSIONS I had an embarrassing thing happen the other day. My car started stalling every time I came to a stop. I took the car into the shop to have it checked out. After…
GO A- FISHIN' I don't want a million dollars, I don't want to run a trust, I don't want to take a plunge, and see the other fellow bust, I don't want to command markets…
EINSTEIN'S REJECTION A six-year-old boy came home from school with a note saying "Keep this boy at home. He is backward and unteachable." This boy had difficulty with vocabulary skills and was far behind the…
FRUITFUL FIRING Wallace Johnson, builder of numerous Holiday Inns said, "When I was 40, I worked in a saw mill. One morning the boss said, 'You're fired!'" "Depressed and discouraged, I felt like the world…
FAITH IS Faith is hearing from God and believing what he said. Then with the right attitude of heart it's trusting the Lord despite the cost to self. Source Unknown
THE VALUE OF DEBATE It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. By the French essayist Joseph Joubert
START SELLING My brother-in-law was looking for a job and stopped by a furniture store that was interviewing for a sales position. When he arrived, he found several applicants ahead of him. Instead of just…
PRICES OR VALUES It is possible to know the price of everything and the value of nothing. From a message by Kent Hughes Kenosha, Wisconsin, October 20, 1989
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music. It is false pride to demand to know the score. Harmony, like a following breeze at sea, is the exception. In a…
MAKING OUR YEARS COUNT Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible. Better than counting your years is to make all your years count. Very few people are big enough…
WHEN CALLED A DONKEY Solitary shots should be ignored, but when they come from several directions, it's time to pay attention. As someone once said, 'If one person calls you a donkey, ignore him. If…
WESLEY ON GOD'S VOICE Many years ago John Wesley said: "Give no place to heated imaginations, do not easily suppose dreams, voices, impressions, visions or revelations to be from God. They may be from Him;…
HELPFUL ANSWERS A helpful answer is one that provides an appropriate and practical solution to the correctly perceived problem. From Doubt, Os Guinness, pg. 174
WISDOM IN MARRIAGE The poet thus penned these words of wisdom: "To keep a marriage brimming with love in the loving cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it. Whenever you're right, shut up!
CURE FROM WITHOUT It is vain, O men, that you seek within yourselves the cure for your miseries. All your insight only leads you to the knowledge that it is not in yourselves that you…
CENTIPEDE TRIPPED UP The Centipede was happy quite, Until the toad-in-fun Said "Pray, which leg goes after which?" Which worked her mind to such a pitch, She lay distracted in a ditch, Considering how to…
WHAT WE CAN'T EXPLAIN Gunnysack Johnson told the boys at the boat dock that "you can't no more explain what you don't know than you can come back from where you ain't been." From "The…
