FALLING OUT OF LOVE Someone once noted that there are 10 steps to falling OUT OF LOVE in a relationship. 1. Communication ceases. 2. They cease to enjoy each others presence. 3. They cease to…
Sermon Illustrations
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME Father Jenco has come to... terms with his captivity and even with his captors. When one guard asked forgiveness for keeping him in isolation for six months, Jenco asked the guard's pardon for…
TRADING PLACES WITH GOD Elie Wiesel tells the story of the day man came before God on His heavenly throne and said to him, "Which do you think is harder, to be man or to…
FAILURE OF CAPITALISM While we have rejoiced over the failure of communism, we have failed to notice the like failure of capitalism. We may be witnessing the death of the dollar as we know it.…
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. -- W. B. Prescott
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. -- William Arthur Ward
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. -- African Proverb The preceding short shots were
THE STARFISH As the old man walked the beach at dawn, he noticed a young man ahead of him picking up starfish and flinging them into the sea. Finally catching up with the youth, he…
BOYS AND GIRLS AND POTENTIAL Boys and girls are men and women in the cocoon. You do not know what they are going to become. Their lives are big with many possibilities. They may make…
FLAT THEOLOGY Religious cultists convinced that flat tires were the key to salvation deflated tires on scores of buses and cars Monday, paralyzing traffic throughout the city. Police arrested thirty-two people. Terrified motorists abandoned their…
FALLING OR FLYING Society's image of itself, a cocktail of common sense and prejudices, personal experience and propaganda influences, does not correspond to reality. A year ago the comparable data were no less grim; it…
PLUMS AND SLUMS When picking plums recently, I focused my attention on the large, juicy plums near the top of the tree. I reached and strained to gather in the plump plums on the tree.…
THE FACE OF THE WORLD Mom was out of the house and the father was assigned the impossible task of watching his two children while studying for his college classes. Desperate to somehow find a…
BOBBY'S BROKEN DREAMS He emerged from the determined darkness one fine fall football Friday, his body boozed to the brim and eyes saturated to the rim. Bobby blurted, "Nobody remembers me! I go to the…
MORE THAN LIFE Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago describes the terrors of a Soviet concentration camp. He begins with the day of the arrest and the inquisition that comes before the sentence. He describes the tortures…
WINE INTO WATER I do not think Christianity has been tried and found wanting. I think it has been tried and found difficult. It has been watered down again and again, so that Sunday after…
NO PLACE FOR WORRY The source of this illustration is unknown, but the philosophy of this soldier applies to many of us: One of two things is certain: either you're mobilized, or you're not mobilized.…
A WEIGHTY DIFFERENCE What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About thirty pounds!
CONTEMPLATING LOVE I was just sitting here feeling the loneliness, Wishing for someone to care, Coming to the sudden realization that love isn't something you strive to get... But something you strive to give. By…
PREACHING LOVE Loving to preach is alright. Loving those to whom we preach is better. Loving to preach love to those whom we love is greater still. By Michael Hodgin
