NOT SURE- THING-TAKING Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. -- Tim McMahon
Sermon Illustrations
HOME AT LAST or MOVING WITH GOD Straight from the pages of Romans 8:28 comes a real-life story of faith, prayer and God's provision: When our family returned to the United States after several years…
HOPE OF AN ATHEIST Nietsche said, "Hope is the cruelest thing. It always disappoints us!" -- God said: "Since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,…
CONTRIBUTING LIVES It is not what the best men do, but what they are, that constitutes their truest benefaction to their fellow men. Certainly, in our own little spheres, it is not the most active…
EATING CHICKEN BEFORE & AFTER How versatile is the chicken, I've often heard it said. "You can eat it before it's born, You can eat it after it's dead." By Olga McCoy, Mature Living
THE WAY OUT IS THROUGH An illustration to follow up on Parables Etc., August, 1995, page two: This past week -- the week of August 20, 1995 -- a commuter airplane lost an engine and…
ON A SCALE OF ONE TO A MILLION I asked the kids the other day, "on a scale of 1 to 10 how much do you think that Aunt Dede loves you"? The youngest girl…
NAPOLEON'S DEFEATS Napoleon once said that God was always on the side of the heaviest battalions. Napoleon was defeated by raindrops at Waterloo, and by snowflakes at Moscow.
RIGHT TIME FOR WORSHIP I do remember the counsel of one of my seminary professors. "If God's working," he said, "let's stay and enjoy His work and not worry about the clock. But if He's…
PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice. -- Otto von Bismarck
HAPPINESS & MARRIAGE At a wedding reception a woman and her friend watched the newly-married couple cut their cake. As they watched, the woman remarked to her friend, "I never knew what true happiness was…
A WICKED WORLD There is a great deal of wickedness in the village life. I hope you dear young people will never realize how very wicked the world is. -- Agatha Christie
THE PRAYER OF ST FRANCIS God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. St. Francis of Assisi
FOOTBALL FANATIC A man was seated next to a woman at a football game. This woman was following the game with full enthusiasm. She seemed to be there by herself, but there was an empty…
THEFT- PROOF MUSIC I knew I was getting old when a thief broke in to my car and stole my tape deck but left my tapes behind.
WHAT'S REALLY NECESSARY What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. From Systems Forms Mailer
TWO TESTS "Today I'm giving two examinations. One in trigonometry and the other in honesty," Dr. Madison Sarratt used to tell his class at Vanderbilt University each year. "I hope you will pass them both.…
NOT THE WALKERS My wife and I decided to eat out one night, but failed to make reservations. When we arrived at our favorite restaurant, we learned that several people had signed up for a…
HE LEFT NO VACANCY "Did you find a job today?" the wife asked her unemployed husband. "No, but I heard Eddie lost his job, so I went down to apply for the vacant position." Wife:…
TEMPTATION & OPPORTUNITY Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. From The Wit and Wisdom of George Bernard Shaw
