WHAT HAPPENS IN BED Nothing good is going to happen in bed between a husband and wife unless good things have been happening between them before they get into bed.By William Masters & Virginia Johnson,…
Sermon Illustrations
ALIMONY CAN BE AVOIDED While teaching a Sunday School class of single adults, one young man who was recently divorced complained about his alimony payments. A young woman in the class quickly responded, "I know…
A SICK MARRIAGE Marriage counselor Lindsay Curtis often hands his clients a calling card that lists seven warning signals of a sick marriage: 1. When common courtesies are abandoned; 2. When couples begin to think…
UNLUCKY LEAKS How come your air mattress springs a leak on the first night of a five-night backpacking trip and not when your kid was using it as a trampoline on the driveway?By Patrick F.…
NUMEROUS PROPOSALS She - "I've been asked to get married lots of times." He - "Who asked you?" She - "Mother and Father."From 10,000 Jokes, Toasts & Stories, edited by Lewis and Faye Copeland, published…
MARRIAGE PROBLEMS When polls are taken to discover what unhappily married men and women object to in each other, the 'silent husband' heads the wife's list, and the 'nagging wife' almost always heads the list…
TEENAGERS AND PROBLEMS How good you are as a parent may depend on whether you think teenagers have problems or are problems.Doug Larson, UFS
RETROSPECTIVE PICTURE OF MOM Some forty years later a son writes concerning his mother: I can remember many fond recollections of a loving mother. Several times today I saw in my own mind's eye a…
FEMINISM DECLARES WAR ON MARRIAGE Let me now read to you a section of "The Document", the declaration of feminism: "Marriage has existed for the benefit of men and has been a legally sanctioned method…
BLACK AND WHITE WAR A cartoon appeared in the Wall Street Journal of a classroom situation: A little boy has been called on by his teacher to tell about World War II. The boy stands…
LOOK MORE OFTEN A husband and wife are walking along the sidewalk. The wife asks her husband if he still finds her attractive after all these years. The husband stops and faces his wife. He…
LIFE AS A TORCH Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have gotten hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as…
THROUGH THE ROUGH SPOTS A husband and wife were discussing old times, when the husband said, "My dear, I have taken you safely over all the rough spots of life." "Yes, dear," said the wife,…
NO PLACE FOR COMPLACENCY Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking. By Lee J. Iacocca
HARD WORK FOR LONG MARRIAGE A young student was telling his school teacher about his grandparents who were celebrating their fiftieth anniversary. His teacher was quite impressed and told the boy: "Your grandparents are certainly…
THE CHRISTIAN RESPONSE A Japanese Christian man had just irrigated his rice field the previous day. It was very important at that time of the year to keep his field in standing water. The next…
GOD WILL PROVIDE Abraham burdened Isaac with the wood, not the worry... When the day was over, this memorable, painful, priceless day, a day seized by Abraham's faith, a day yielded to by Isaac's trust,…
THE BLOOD OF A JEW John Ortberg, one of the teaching pastors at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois, told the story of a friend of his who was a medic for the…
ENIGMA OF LIVING Man is an enigma. He wants to live a long time, yet is constantly threatening himself with annihilation. He desires the enjoyment of good health, yet regularly ignores the basic rules for…
GOD IN THE BATHROOM A Sunday School teacher asked her class of pre-schoolers if they knew where God lives. One little boy raised his hand, and the teacher called on him. "God lives in my…
