BASIC ACTIONS AND ATTITUDES One of the excuses that so many people give for not praying is "I'm just too busy. I don't have time to pray." We all know what being busy is like.…
Sermon Illustrations
WASTE OF WORRY Worry is wasting today's time to clutter up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles. From Daily Walk
GOD WANTS OUR PRIME TIME God wants our prime time, not our spare time. How to Close the Back Door of Your Church seminar, Pheasant Run, Oct. 10-12, 1988
PENTECOST'S SERMON "On the day of Pentecost there was one sermon and 3,000 were saved. In too many places 3,000 sermons are preached and at most only one person is saved. By Michael Hankins, Church…
SECURE TITANICS We try to build our own Titanics: secure and safe.
DATING ACTIONS Golden Rule in Dating: "I will treat a woman or a man on a date the same way I want someone that night to treat the man or woman I will some day…
A PAT ON THE HEART "This is where your heart is!" said the teacher, pointing to the little boy's chest. "My heart is where I sit down." said the little boy in her class. "How…
SAINT OR ANGEL A man does not have to be an angel... to be a saint. By Albert Schweitzer
FAITH WITHOUT WORKS The pastor missed his plane, stood there looking at his watch, then angrily drove back to town with it and stopped at the jewelry store operated by his parishioner. "I had faith…
BEFORE FORGIVENESS A Sunday school teacher had just concluded her lesson and wanted to make sure she had made her point. She said, "Can anyone tell me what you must do before you can obtain…
TOO MUCH BUSINESS A clear vision gives you clarity of purpose and direction. Vision focuses our plans... and energizes us for action. If you don't know where you are going... what you really want to…
NO TIME FOR PATIENCE How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, Instamatic cameras, frozen dinners and micro-wave meals teach patience to it's young? Anonymous
ALL THAT EXTRA TIME When Elias Howe invented the sewing machine, women asked, with their sewing done so quickly, what they would do with all that extra time. By Denis Waitley, from "Seeds of Success",…
ALL YOU CAN DO CONTENTMENT When you've done all you can do, you've done all you can do. By Gary K. Odle
THE CONVERSION OBSTACLE A feeble, nominal Christianity is the greatest obstacle to the conversion of the world. Henry Venn in an address to the Islington clerical meeting on January 10, 1865
THREE RULES FOR GOOD TEETH There are three proven rules for good teeth: 1) Brush after each meal. 2) See your dentist twice a year. 3) Mind your own business. Henry Boye in The American…
CARRYING CATS EXPERIENCE A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain
TURTLE ON A FENCE The Handbook of Magazine Article Writing contains this illustration by Philip Barry Osborne: "Alex Haley, the author of Roots, has a picture in his office, showing a turtle sitting atop a…
TRUTH DETERMINES ACTIONS Seek not greatness, but seek truth, and you will find both. -- Horace Mann
WHAT MADE HIM GIVE IT A monk who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day he met another traveler who was hungry, and the monk opened his…
