DOING WHAT CAN'T BE DONE Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done. From Mature Living, by Sam Ewing
Sermon Illustrations
IT'S NOT A COW A young woman from the city was visiting the farm. This was her first visit to the farm, and she was simply fascinated by the animals. She had never seen many…
RESUMES & IRONS IN THE FIRE An energetic young man entered the office of the personnel officer of a large corporation. As he entered the room, he approached the desk and plopped his resume onto…
TIME & CHRISTMAS TIME Columnist Bob Green called it the "Twitching of America." Futurist David M. Zach called it "Hyperliving -- skimming along the surface of life." The late Norman Cousins called it "A sprinting,…
RIDE WITH COLIN POWELL One of my good friends recently retired from military assignment in the Pentagon. Not long ago the wife of one of his co-workers arrived by bus and intended to commute home…
HIS ONLY FORGOTTEN SON My five-year-old Stephen was practicing his memory verse for Bible Club. John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only forgotten son..." My wife laughed as she…
SUPERHUMAN SAVIOR Daniel Webster, while dining with some literary figures in Boston confessed his faith in Jesus. A man who did not believe in the deity of Christ asked, "Mr. Webster, can you comprehend how…
AND THE ANGELS SANG! An inn too full for another guest A crowded manger scene A cry of welcome to the world And The angels sang! A hilltop vision of coming peace A shepherd's pilgrimage…
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS There is a list of folks I know all written in a book And every year at Christmas time I go and take a look./That is when I realize these names are just…
INNKEEPER'S HEART CHANGED: One of my favorite stories for the Christmas season is about a nine-year-old boy named Wallace Purling. It is adapted from a story by Dina Donahue that was published in Guideposts. Wallace…
COVERING OF HEAVY FROST One of the most spectacular displays of God's creative artistry that I have ever seen happened on a cold winter morning. Over the Christmas holiday weekend in Omaha, Nebraska, we were…
JESUS & MOZART Many people recognize Jesus' humanity but fail to accept His deity. They are like the young woman who was engaged to Mozart before he rose to fame. Impressed by more handsome men,…
ISLAM CLAIMS NO SAVIOR Islam reads the story of the prodigal son and claims that the wayward son is forgiven by the father without the need of a savior: The son fails... the son returns...…
URCHIN MARY A little girl was involved in her church's Christmas program. This year they were going to be telling the Christmas story in their own words. Everyone had practiced and thought it was delightful.…
TOO YOUNG TO MARRY Annie and Ken were four year olds and have been close friends all their lives. Their parents are the closest of friends. Annie and Ken have always assumed they would eventually…
CHRISTMAS ACTIVITY SCENE This past Christmas, one little girl told me that her sister kept asking her parents when they were going to set up the activity scene.
CHRISTMAS IN NAZI GERMANY Christmas Eve in 1941 was bitterly cold in Europe. I remember it very well for I spent it in a German POW camp on the outskirts of the town of "Rueone"…
CUBAN CHRISTMAS Orestes Lorenzo, at 36 years of age, gazed at the best Christmas gift he's ever had: his wife and two sons. Twenty-four hours earlier, Vicky Lorenzo, age 35, and her two boys, Reyniel,…
ANGELIC PERSPECTIVE Here's a fantasy perspective of Jesus' birth from an angel's point of view, from New Testament Christianity, by J. D. Philips: Once upon a time a very young angel was being shown around…
CHRISTMAS POETRY That Christmas Day, if you were God, And that was your Son on that stable sod. Wrapped for death with its sin cursed sting. Would you have made the angels sing? Would you…
