THINK BIG Attempt something so great for God that it's doomed to failure unless God be in it.
Sermon Illustrations
THE GIFT It was a family treasure, that vase that golden vase The vase that had belonged to my great- grandmother, to my grandmother, and now to my mother . . ./And the vase sat…
POWERFUL GRASP Christmas is love tugging man back to God With the powerful grasp of a tiny hand Reaching out from a bed of straw. Molly Brown
THE INNKEEPER I only did what you have done A thousand times or more When Joseph came to Bethlehem And knocked upon my door I did not turn the Christ away With alibi so deft.…
WHEN THE FUN STOPS AND INTEGRITY TAKES OVER Bubba Smith has sworn off booze. Not drinking it, but selling it. Bubba never did drink, but he sold a ton of beer by making cute television…
TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION Max Jukes lived in New York. He did not believe in Christ or in Christian training. He refused to take his children to church, even when they asked to…
CAUGHT I was working at a retail store and we were having repeated problems with a mouse. The only food products in the store were all types of candy bars, potato chips, etc. The only…
DON'T IGNORE THE WARNING On Sep 28, 1986 heavy rains flooded many low-lying areas of the Mid- west. Two years prior, a flood many recall as the "Memorial Day Massacre" claimed the lives of twenty…
GOOD ADVICE FOR ANYONE While she was enjoying a transatlantic ocean trip, Billie Burke, the famous actress, noticed that a gentleman at the next table was suffering from a bad cold. She asked him sympathetically,…
PUTTING IT ALL IN PERSPECTIVE A man asked God how long a million years was to Him. God replied, "It's just like a single second of your time, my child." So the man asked, "And…
LET'S HELP EACH OTHER A man's car stalled in the heavy traffic as the light turned green. All his efforts to start the engine failed, and a chorus of honking behind him made matters worse.…
HOW TO STAY HEALTHY THOUGH AGED The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists in the circulation of the blood. Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)
WORRY is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. Arthur Somers Roche
SCATTERED JOY AT PLEASANT INNS ALONG THE WAY The settled happiness and security which we all desire God withholds from us by the very nature of the world; but joy, pleasure and merriment He has…
SUMMING IT ALL UP Perhaps one of the most profound stories on happiness is the old familiar one: A puppy said to a big dog, "I have mastered philosophy. I have learned that the best…
THOSE WHO HAVE IT/THOSE WHO DON'T One day a young friend of Bertrand Russell, the philosopher, noticed that the celebrated thinker was in a state of deep and profound contemplation. The young man asked, "Why…
THE CYNIC ON HAPPINESS Paul Eldridge's Maxims For The Modern Man is full of acerbic, witty and bitter maxims including the following under Happiness and Sorrow: Happiness is a truce between one sorrow and another.…
NOTHING MAKES YOU HAPPIER Born over sixty years ago in Yugoslavia, she responded to God's call on her life while still a teenager. A missionary's strong challenge to give her life to teaching in India…
A CHOICE Dr. Viktor Frankl, author of the book Man's Search For Meaning, was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Second World War because he was a Jew. His wife, his children, and his parents…
MONEY Many people have finally realized that money can't buy happiness. Now they're trying credit cards. On The Upbeat
