WHICH SIDE I AM ON A little old man was seen every Sunday morning walking to the church of his choice. He was deaf; so he could not hear a word of the sermon, or…
Sermon Illustrations
MARATHON GOALS Famous marathon runner Fred Lebow once said, "A jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing the marathon."
DAUGHTER'S HEART SAVES FATHER Fifty-eight-year-old Chester Szuber of Berkley, Michigan had waited for four years for a new heart. He had suffered through three open-heart surgeries. Without a new heart, his life would soon be…
CHAIRS AND PRAYERS A new associate pastor was asked by a woman in the church to visit her father in the hospital who was dying of cancer. The associate went to see her father. There…
GENERATIONAL HEROES A sure sign of advancing age is the discovery that the heroes of our youth are unknown to the younger generation, and, worse, that their heroes are unknown to us. By F. Thomas…
HUMAN TOUCH NEEDED In his bestseller Megatrends, John Naisbitt notes: "In our minds at least, technology is always on the verge of liberating us from personal discipline and responsibility. Only it never does, and it…
LIFE NEEDS BRANCHES Life breaks down not so much because of the terrible things that happen to us. Life breaks down because so few good things happen to us. Just a few along the way…
A LIGHT FOR SAFE FLIGHT In October of 1994, Pastor Andy Meverden of Galilee Baptist Church visited one of his church members who was a retired airline captain and a veteran World War II pilot.…
NOW OLD I don't think you enjoy anything when you retire, because you have too much time to do it. I think, when people retire, they practice getting old. They get up slowly, they put…
HAPPINESS AND MONEY Happiness can't be measured by one's wealth. For instance, a person with eight million dollars may not be one bit happier than a person with seven million dollars!
THROUGH THE FIRE Near Glenwood Springs, Colorado in July of 1994, forest fires raged on Storm King Mountain. Fire fighters were battling the blaze when fifty-mile-an-hour winds shifted direction and blew the exploding firestorm back…
DEATH IS OUR MOTHER Death appears as a mother, birthing us from a dim little womb-like world -- this universe -- into a world of incredibly larger dimensions and unimagined splendors. Death becomes our birth…
Appearance | Appearances | Excuses | Expectations | Humor | Obedience | Performance | Purity | Trial
INVOLUNTARY DISOBEDIENCE The attendant at a movie theater was walking up and down the aisle between showings of the movie. While doing so, he noticed that in the back of the theater there was a…
TOO READY FOR USE A legend of John the Evangelist tells that John was once playing with a partridge. Someone chided him for resting and goofing off in play rather than being busy at work.…
BEASTS AND CHILDREN In the spring of 1994, a jogger was killed by a mountain lion in California. Trackers with dogs hunted down the mountain lion and destroyed it. They spared the mountain lion's cubs.…
TO KNOW MAN IS TO HATE HIM Shortly before he died, Sigmund Freud told Victor Frankl, "The more I study man, the more I despise him."
QUICK INTEREST The quickest way to get people interested in a project is to tell them it is none of their business.
OBEDIENCE AND SUFFERING The real qualities of leadership are to be found in those who are willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience. Quoted in Spiritual Leadership,…
CONCERNS OF PASTORS Results of Focus on the Preacher's Family are interesting. Ten thousand ministers were surveyed, and the number one response of concern was the apathy of the people in their congregations. The survey…
NEW, PEW, OR SEED POTATO A Pew Potato wants to be cared for but does not know how to care. A Pew Potato wants to be visited, but never visits. A Pew Potato wants the…
