POPE JOHN PAUL ON VALUES Consumerism can be as soulless as communism: "It is not wrong to want to live better; what is wrong is a style of life which is presumed to be better…
Sermon Illustrations
FINISH THE RACE Paris was the site of the Winter Olympics in 1924. Finland was in the lead of the team cross-country race with two skiers already having completed the course and needing only one…
WHERE FRASER LEARNED MOST Dr. Harry A. Ironside as a young preacher visited the aged Alexander Fraser and listened enthralled as one truth after another from God's Word was opened up by Mr. Fraser. He…
HOSTAGE HEALTH The Jerusalem Post records how a Jewish hostage attained the victory over his captors: Anatoly... would not let them insinuate themselves into his mind. He had enough resources to fill it himself. The…
DON'T MISS THE SHOW Lowell Ogden tells the story of a little boy who lived out in the country around the turn of the century. He had never seen a traveling circus, and one was…
FROZEN FEELING Everyone of us has looked at our desks filled with memos and papers, heard the phone ringing, and watched the door open all at the same time! Remember that "frozen feeling" that came…
SEE THEM AS WE ARE We do not always see things as they are; we usually see things as we are.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT ON THE WORLD The great work must go forward... as soon as we all find somebody else to do it. Anybody who tries to get between me and my work... has a good…
WE CLIMB TOGETHER Together, nine physically handicapped persons conquered Mount Rainier. One of the mountain climbers had an artificial leg. Another was an epileptic. Two were deaf, and five were blind. Despite these handicaps, the…
COPING WITH THE FEELING One minister commented, "Learning to cope with feeling overworked takes minutes to learn, but a lifetime to master." From Leadership, Spring of 1983, pg. 89
DREAM WAKING Claudia Glenn Dowling wrote of the men who attempted the most difficult climb to the peak of Mt. Everest - the only ones who have ever survived that attempt - up the northeast…
THINGS TURN OUT Things seem to turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out. From Fence Posts
RIGHT DECISIONS My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy, you don't make them because they are cheap, you don't make them because they are popular; you make them because…
SUMMATION Each of my days find me Seeking to perfect myself For all the noble reasons Men seek wholeness, (And some lesser ones too.) I've dreamed like a pilgrim And known a poet's thirst. I've…
SEE IT BEFORE YOU SEE IT "You have to see it, before you see it, or you will never see it." By Bill Weber
VOLUNTARY SACRIFICE When a boy gets up at 4:00 in the morning to deliver papers, most people say he is a go-getter. If the church should ask that same boy to get up at 4:00…
REVIVAL NEEDED I have a vision -- a picture, if you will -- of the soldiers of Christ, the army of God called to go forth in the name of the Lord. The soldiers of…
APART FROM CHARACTER Apart from character, ministry is only religious activity or even worse, religious business.
A SIGN OF SUCCESS Three men were riding into work, and the subject of success came up. One said, "Success is being asked to the White House to consult with the president." The second commented,…
NO ONE LISTENS Bill Clinton once told his wife Hillary that being president is kind of like running a cemetery, there are a lot of people under you, but no one is listening. As quoted…
