CHEWING THE PAST TOO MUCH Nowadays Americans seem afflicted with hardening of the arteries. How else explain this senescent preoccupation with the largely meaningless detritus of the past? This morbid interest in the long ago…
Sermon Illustrations
BEYOND THE MUNDANE As one woman says about giving attention to her children: She very honestly admits, "I never really looked at my children. When I looked at their mouth, I saw dirt around it.…
PRACTICING MIRACLES In Sunday School the minister was trying to illustrate the word "miracle." Boys and girls, he said, suppose I stood on the roof of a ten-story building, lost my balance and fell off.…
IN TIME OF NEED Cheit's Lament: If you help a friend in need, he is sure to remember you -- the next time he's in need.
NOW IS THE TIME FOR TALENT Hide not your talents, they for use were made; what's a sun dial in the shade? By Benjamin Franklin
MARITAL CONVERSATION The average married couple spends four minutes a day in serious , meaningful conversation. From Wisconsin State Journal, 1989
BEFORE WE DIE Every extraordinary person has a particular mission which he is called upon to fulfill. When he has accomplished it, he is no longer needed on earth in the same form, and Providence…
TIME FOR THOSE WHO DIFFER Never let us think evil of men who do not see as we do. From the bottom of our hearts let us pity them, let us take them by the…
ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE The task of pastoral ministry is, above all else, to arrange the contingencies for an encounter with the Divine. By Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Spiritual Care
NO WASTED MOVEMENT The great inventor Thomas Alva Edison used to take special pleasure in showing his guests around the grounds of his New Jersey home. On the way back to the house, there was…
GOD'S CARE Song by Four-Hymn: Every second of every minute Every minute of every hour Twenty-four hours a day He Will Be There for You Three-hundred-sixty-five days a year Every day in the life that…
WASTED YEAR I looked upon a farm one day that once I used to own; the barn had fallen to the ground, the fields were overgrown. The house in which my children grew, where we…
ETERNAL TIMING To have your name inscribed up there is better yet by far, Than all the halls of fame down here and every man-made star. The crowd on earth, they soon forget the heroes…
COMMODITY OF TIME Employers pay salaries for time. That is the basic commodity that human beings have that is valuable. We exchange our time in life for money. Writers stay with the first step --…
ALWAYS TIME FOR KINDNESS There may be times when you will be sorry about something you said; sorry that you stayed too late, or sorry that you went so early; sorry that you won something,…
NONE TOO SOON In 1802, municipal authorities of Rye, on the English coast, hired an armed sentry to keep watch for a Napoleanic invasion. The last man in the job was "Chummy" Barton. The job…
SKIN THAT FITS A five-year-old boy was gazing intently at his Great-grandmother one day. At last he asked, "Granny, are you a lot older than my mother?" Granny smiled and told him, "Yes, dear. I'm…
FASTER NIGHTS Surprised at how soundly he'd slept while visiting his grandparents, a five-year-old boy exclaimed, "It sure doesn't take long to stay all night at your house!" From Country Woman, September & October, 1990,…
TOO BUSY NOT TO PRAY One of the excuses that so many people give for not praying is "I'm just too busy. I don't have time to pray." We all know what being busy is…
TAKING TIME FOR GRIEF Sometimes the best thing to do is cry. It does wonders to purge the soul and clear the mind. Gary K. Odle, First Baptist Church of Falun, Falun, Wisconsin
