COMMUNICATING THE MESSAGE OF SINS COVERED The story of Christ's coverage for sins has been told so often to some -- that the message just doesn't seem to get through. We are jaded. Somehow we…
Sermon Illustrations
THE NEED FOR ATONEMENT A farmer owned a very beautiful horse of which he was very proud. One day he drove him into town and carefully tied the animal to the hitching post in front…
THE SUBSTITUTE There was a law in Tokyo about 1900 that no foreigner could take up residence there unless he had a "substitute." There were natives who hired themselves out for this purpose. If the…
THE SHARED PENALTY Zaleusus flourished about 500 years B. C. His government over the Locrians was severe but just. On one of his decrees, he forbade the use of wine unless it were prescribed as…
IN OUR PLACE They tell the story about a great Russian tribal leader in the early days who had two laws. The first was that all the tribe were to love their parents and the…
J. P. MORGAN'S WILL When J. Pierpont Morgan, the American financier, the multi-millionaire, died, it was found that the year before his death, he had made his will. It consisted of about 10,000 words and…
THIS IS MY BODY -- BROKEN FOR YOU The other day a shock went through our small community when it was revealed that a local church had been broken into and desecrated. The place was…
SHARING THE PENALTY OF SIN In Edward Kulhmann's Cross Examined, there is an old story from a New England parsonage that tells how the wayward son of a pastor loved to play truant from school.…
THE DIVINE SCAPEGOAT On Jan 28, 1968, the North Korean Navy captured Cmdr. Lloyd M. Bucher's ship, the U. S. S. Pueblo, an old coastal freighter used by the Navy to gather intelligence. Bucher and…
THE SOLUTION MUST BE APPROPRIATED A Japanese soldier by the name of Shoichi Yokoi lived in a cave on the island of Guam to which he fled in 1944 when the tides of war began…
THE HOUND OF HEAVEN -- PERSUED BY GOD'S ATONING LOVE Several years ago an eastern paper reported this story which is an illustration of the way God pursues us with his provisions of love. One…
A CLASSIC ON ATONEMENT One of the old favorites is the story of the father and son who worked for months to build a toy sailboat. Every night when he came home from work, the…
REBUILT In the British Museum you can find the Portland Vase -- a work of perfect and incomparable beauty. A madman, passing through the room in which it was exhibited, struck it with his stick…
A GRIM STORY Lastly, I include a story that has been sent to me by at least ten people over the past few years. A man had the duty to raise a drawbridge to allow…
THROUGH THE VALLEY TOGETHER Our Youth Director, Craig Sanders, shared this story from Through the Valley of the Quai, recently. It is the story from the book on which the movie "The Bridge on the…
SPECIAL OLYMPICS I had a great experience three years ago down in Los Angeles -- I went to the Special Olympics and there were several people from our church who were competing. I was sitting…
FEAR OF CHURCH In an excellent biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt, I came across the following story about T. R. as a child: [Teedie was the name they called him and Mittie was his…
IT'S ALL IN YOUR PERSPECTIVE After the Sunday School teacher told the story of the prodigal son to the class, she asked, "Was anyone sorry when the prodigal son returned?" to which one boy answered,…
THE CONFUSION BEGINS The first real confusion in a child's life is when he decides girls are better than frogs but he isn't sure why. Funny, Funny World
CROSSINGS I came to the swift, raging river,/And the roar held the echo of fear;/"Oh, Lord, give me wings to fly over,/If you are, as You promised, quite near." But He said, "Trust the grace…
