Late one Valentine’s Day, a young man staggered into a bakery just before it was about to close. The man came in from the pouring rain and was soaked from head to toe. “Am I…
Sermon Illustrations
What Are Valentines? Valentines are Gifts of Love And with the help of God above Love can change the human race And make this world a better place– For love disolves all hate and fear…
A husband and wife were travelling through the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia when they wandered off the main road for some sightseeing. Suddenly, they encountered a valley full of beautiful blossoming trees. Beyond was…
Massachusetts Congressman “Tip” O’Neill, former Speaker of the House, tells a wonderful story about a man named “Honest Jake Bloom” of Boston. Honest Jake became well-known in the Boston area because of the assistance he…
A woman explained that in order to offset the depression she felt at reaching her 40th birthday, she decided to treat herself to a new haircut and a new outfit. Walking down the street, she…
A reformer given to lecturing on the evils of liquor finished off a performance by exhibiting two bottles to his audience, one filled with water, the other with liquor. He put some worms in the…
In the Shao-Lin Monastery of Hunan, China, a teacher walked with a pupil in the courtyard. The teacher was known as the Blind Master. He had lost his sight early in life, but he had…
An elderly woman was filling out an application for residency in a retirement village. With some anxiety, she answered the questions relating to the state of her health, then signed her name and put down…
An elderly woman was filling out an application for residency in a retirement village. With some anxiety, she answered the questions relating to the state of her health, then signed her name and put down…
Along with faith comes understanding that we are all the children of God, no matter what our individual differences may be. A girl asked her new seven-year-old neighbor, “What Church do you go to?” “I…
A young boy spent a month each summer with his parents in an old farmhouse in New Hampshire. The house was one-hundred and fifty years old when it first came into his family’s hands and…
Two shipwrecked sailors had been adrift on a raft for days. Desperate, one knelt and began to pray: “Oh Lord, I know I haven’t lived a good life. I’ve drunk too much booze. I’ve lied…
Aesops’ Fables includes the story of a man who owned a proud and handsome horse and an ugly, broken-down old donkey. One day, as they set out on a long journey, the man placed the…
God’s Wheel God says to me with kind of a smile, ”Hey how would you like to be God for a while And steer the world?” ”Okay,” says I, “I’ll give it a try. Where…
When Khrushchev pronounced his famous denunciation of Stalin, someone in the Congress Hall is reported to have said, “Where were you, Comrade Khrushchev, when all these innocent people were being slaughtered?” Khrushchev paused, looked around…
There was a young man named Buddy who spent two years working in the oil fields of New Mexico in order to earn money for college. One winter day, when he was ninety-feet up on…
There was a seminary professor who was much admired by his students because he always managed to keep his spiritual vitality at a high peak. Clearly he was a man who had found rest for…
A man was telling his friend about the time not long ago when the people of the world had become so corrupt and immoral and degenerate and faithless, and conditions had become so intolerable, that…
A teacher asked her pupils to make up a list of eleven great men. As the class was busy writing, she walked between the desks, and noticed one little lad chewing the end of his…
A little girl was visiting a beautiful cathedral with her aunt. It was late afternoon and the sun’s rays were streaming through a stained glass window that featured the figures of several saints. The little…
