ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME At a recent community dinner, the organizers realized half way through the meal that they had forgotten to say Grace. A pastor who was also in the middle of his…
Sermon Illustrations
RECOGNIZE YOUR BLESSINGS One who bets on horses looks for any advantage he can find. So when Briscoe saw a priest bless a particular horse, he paid attention. When he saw that horse breeze across…
GOD ALWAYS ALLOWS FOR GOOD Pastor and theologian Richard Niebuhr was teaching a class and near the end of lecture he said: "Whatever comes into our lives, God allows for good." In that same class…
JUST PASSING THROUGH In the Nineteenth Century people who passed the Rothchild mansion in the fashionable section of London would notice that the end of one of the cornices was unfinished. Some wondered "Could not…
ALMOST THANKFUL Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same. By Erica Jong
GIVING THANKS For what shall a man give thanks? For the simple blessings of the day. For the laughter of a child. For grass and trees and water and sunshine; the soft tumult of the…
YOU CAN TRUST HIM He's the one who made us. It is he who made us and not we ourselves. The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows his handiwork. No means…
GUEST OR RESIDENT If you open the door and let Christ in He will come as a courteous guest. He will take the space that you give to him And will leave you all the…
HOW NOT TO FIND GOD An astronomer was lecturing a group in France, and declared, "I have swept the universe with my telescope, and I find no God." A musician appropriately rebuked the astronomer: "Your…
GOD NEVER HELPS In the August, 1993 issue of Guideposts, actress Mariette Hartley -- who played opposite from James Garner on over two hundred and fifty Polaroid commercials -- tells a story she heard when…
LOOK A LITTLE HIGHER One day John Wesley was walking with a troubled man who expressed his doubt as to the goodness of God. He said, "I do not know what I shall do with…
FINALLY THANKFUL When Noah sailed the waters blue, He had his troubles same as you, For forty days he drove his ark, Before he found a place to park. From Laugh, December, 1993 - January,…
NOT ENOUGH PRAISE Fed up. One day a millionaire of my acquaintance, whose pride it was never to offer a tip for any service, faced an unforgettable tragedy. His chief accountant committed suicide. The books…
SHADE The kindliest thing God ever made, His hand of very healing laid Upon a fevered world, is shade. His glorious company of trees Throw out their mantles, and on these The dust-stained wanderer finds…
CAR SEAT FOR JESUS A little girl was helping her mother unpack the nativity set and set it up. As she unpacked each of the pieces she said, "Here's Mary and Joseph." When she got…
THE END OF THE STORY We are all familiar with the Christmas Story. But did you know you have a part in it? You do. You make your own ending to the Christmas Story depending…
ONE AT A TIME Will Rogers was once asked, "If you had only forty- eight hours to live, how would you spend them?" His simple reply: "One at a time." By Will Rogers
WHAT WE CANNOT ASK "We cannot ask another to do what we have never done or are not willing to do. That is why we ask for our mission only those who come 'without a…
A SACRIFICE IS AN OFFERING A sacrifice is an offering placed before the Lord so that he can make something of it. Once offered it is in God's hand to do with what he will.…
NO LITTLE THINGS WITH GOD If only we could get hold of the life-changing fact that there are no little things with God! Your seemingly small trouble is of eternal importance to Him this moment.…
