THE GUILLEMOT EGG Have you ever heard of a guillemot? Well a guillemot is a small Arctic sea bird that lives on the rocky cliffs of the northern coastal regions. These birds flock together by…
Sermon Illustrations
IN A CLASS OF HIS OWN Sammy Tippit, in his book entitled Worthy of Worship writes: "Jesus is unique in human history. He is not merely one of the gods, He is God. He is…
FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE From Jim Hansel's book, Holy Sweat: "We as human beings are living miracles. We are, as the psalmist says, "fearfully and wonderfully made." I don't know if you realize it, but…
DEADLY FINGER MOVEMENT Victor Frankl, the eminent Psychiatrist and former inmate at a Nazi concentration camp relates his story of the "first selection" that occurred upon disembarking from the prisoner transport at Auschwitz. A tall…
AMERICAN INEFFECTIVENESS Time magazine dealt with the decline of the United States in a cover story a while back. The piece was entitled, "America the Inefficient, or Why Nothing Seems to Work Anymore in the…
BELIEF IN THE WORD Someone once asked Jay Kesler, former President of Youth for Christ International, if he believed that God could make a fish big enough to swallow a man? As a man who…
MISPLACED VALUES A child simply underestimates the proper worth of things. A number of years ago, I asked Marci (she was about five then) what she would buy if she had one hundred dollars to…
REASONS FOR BIRTHDAYS What's in a birthday? A birthday is that occasion that is set aside according to tradition to honor those who are important to us by remembering and celebrating the day on which…
LAW AND ORDER People obey the law for one of two reasons: they either love God or fear punishment. When both of these reasons break down, the result is an environment that breeds violence, poverty…
NEVER A FAILURE "No matter how badly or how many times a person fails, he is never a failure PROVIDING HE GETS UP JUST ONE MORE TIME THAN HE FALLS DOWN." In the Bible: Moses…
FATIGUE IN LIFE Scarf quotes a man who is struggling with the pressures of life and who accurately expresses the fatigue that many men feel: "I feel a weakening of the need to be a…
IT CAME TO PASS Charles L. Allen, in his excellent book entitled You Are Never Alone, writes: "Some time ago I was talking with a very distinguished minister who is now retired. He told me…
GODLINESS IS AN EASY TALK "It is an easy thing to be godly from the teeth out. By Matthew Henry, from his message notes on Romans 16:17 - 20
CENTERS OF THE UNIVERSE The universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it. Each of us is the center of the universe.. From The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, pg.…
THE POWER OF LOVE Obviously very excited, a little girl walks up to one of her friends with a bouquet of flowers in her hands and says: "Brian Clay gave me a bouquet of daisies."…
NO FEAR OF JUDGMENT Look at our heroes, what we spend our money on, what we watch on TV -- that's what we value. The problem is, changing things is a problem. It's not a…
A-B-C 's OF FOCUS The development of values - whether good or bad - involves the A-B-C's of a focus: The ACCEPTANCE of having a focus The BEHAVIOR of having a focus The CHARACTER of…
ABSOLUTE RIGHTS AND WRONGS The basic presupposition is "that there really are such things as absolutes. Absolutes imply antithesis." Francis A. Schaeffer, The God Who Is There, pg. 14
SPIRITUAL IMAGINATIONS In one of his letters to Arthur Greeves, C. S. Lewis remarked about the danger in thinking about spiritual things, particularly for imaginative people: "We read of spiritual efforts, and our imagination makes…
NAKED APES In The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris takes an extremely consistent and perhaps a bit of a satirical look at the theory of evolution as applied to man. Here is his evaluation of human…
