ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER I love to see old stories come around again in a different garb. Here's one I've heard in two different settings: Shalom Aleichem tells a delightful story about an old…
Sermon Illustrations
PLAN AHEAD -- ONE THING AT A TIME The woman told the storekeeper, "I want a small revolver for my husband." The man said, "Yes, Madam, did your husband give any indication of the make…
A TEACHER'S PRAYER Lord, give me the wisdom to discover in each child his spark of divinity, the gift which You have given him, and through love and guidance nurture this spark into a glowing…
DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES -- A LAST WORD ON THE COMET Can't stargazers do their thing without discombobulating most of the rest of us with something that's a phenomenon to them and usually invisible to us? Halley's…
ONE AND ALL Rich or broke, saint or sinner -- /Eager beaver, adolescent/Some are fat, some are thinner/Bright or dull, effervescent/Brave or chicken, loud or quiet/Middle-aged or just beginners/Some who sell, some who buy it/Tired…
THE TALES YOUR WIFE IS TOO KIND TO TELL YOU At First Church the Pastor was away one Sunday at a denominational meeting. He invited a friend, another pastor, to fill the pulpit. This visiting…
NOPE! IT'LL NEVER HAPPEN HERE! A few months back we shared a series of quotes from a few years back that showed how short-sighted even the brightest can be. Here's a few more to add…
LINCOLN ON THE LIMITS OF PARDON The Hon. John B. Alley was made the bearer to the President of a petition for pardon of a person confined in the Newburyport jail for being engaged in…
RED ALERT The story is told in Russia about the late Premier Leonid Brezhnev, who wanted to impress his old mother from the Ukraine. First he showed her through his sumptuous apartment in Moscow. She…
ANYWAY People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and…
GETTING CREDIT Runa Ware tells the story about a very special crab-meat casserole she used to make and one friend always praised it to the skies whenever she served it. She had asked for the…
START RIGHT Begin every day with a good breakfast, and you'll probably be late for work four days a week.
LANDRY ON COACHING The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be. Tom Landry, Coach, The Dallas…
I HAVE THE PEACE A friend visited an elderly woman badly crippled by arthritis. When asked, "Do you suffer much?" she responded, "Yes, but there is no nail here," and she pointed to her hand.…
THE BIBLE AND ATONEMENT In the New Testament there are 290 references to the love of God, 290 times when God had declared His love for man. But in the same chapters and the same…
EXPERIENCING ATONEMENT There is a story that comes out of the desert fathers, those 3rd and 4th century monks who sought the depths of spiritual life in the North African desert. Athanasia was an old…
A CURIOUS FEELING ABOUT THE CROSS George Bernard Shaw once observed, "We crucified him on a stick, but we have always had a curious feeling that He somehow managed to get hold of the right…
THE BLOOD OF THE OVERCOMER Louis Pasteur's co-worker in the demonstration of what used to be called the "germ-theory" was Dr. Felix Ruh, a Jewish doctor in Paris. The physician's granddaughter died of black diphtheria,…
THE HEART OF THE FAITH Nicolas Berdyaev, who abandoned Marx for Christianity, insists that neither history nor theology nor the church brought him to the Christian faith, but a simple woman called only Mother Maria.…
SACRIFICIAL LOVE A marvelous illustration of sacrificial love and atonement is found in Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities, where Sidney Carton dies for Charles Darnay. The young Frenchman has been condemned to die by…
