SPEC TATER SPORT "Religion is not a spectator sport. Sit-and-soak worship creates pew potatoes. But our current space situations make it hard to achieve face-to-face interactions over pew potatohood."Len Sweet, "The Ten Commandments of Soulistic…
Sermon Illustrations
THREE WIVES A sheriff in a small western court rose to testify against a prisoner. "What's this feller here charged with?" the judge demanded. "Bigotry, judge," answered the sheriff. "He's got three wives." "Three!" snorted…
SHORT SHOTS It's not hard to meet expenses, they're everywhere. Incontinence Hotline...Can you hold, please? There are two kinds of pedestrians-the quick and the dead. Advice is free: The right answer will cost plenty. Two…
VISION OF NEW LIFE Withdrawal and return: When any civilization comes to a time of troubles, searching individuals will temporarily turn from the outer world of political and social chaos to the inner world of…
SCIENCE RESURRECTS GOD The very science that "killed" God is, in the eyes of believers, restoring faith. Physicists have stumbled on signs that the cosmos is custom-made for life and consciousness. It turns out that…
OUR PRAYER Thou that hast given so much to me, Give one more thing--a grateful heart; Not thankful when it pleaseth me, As if thy blessings had spare days;/But such a heart, whose pulse may…
FIVE PREACHING CONSIDERATIONS There are five considerations that must be met in every successful sermon. There should be an appeal to the Reason, to the Conscience, to the Imagination, to the Emotions, and to the…
ORDINARY DONKEYS WITHOUT JESUS The donkey awakened, his mind still savoring the afterglow of the most exciting day of his life. Never before had he felt such a rush of pleasure and pride. He walked…
BUYING CONGRESSMEN I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman. --Bruce Baum
REAL LAUNDRY PROBLEMS Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest…
LITTLE BY LITTLE A disciple asked the elder, "O Holy One, what must I do to be enlightened?" "To be enlightened, you must break with your weaker past," was the reply. "Well, I am doing…
THE STATE OF THE CHURCH Many laymen may not know that the institution of the church is undergoing serious difficulty at this time. Many local churches are barely surviving with approximately 3,00 to 4,000 of…
JUDGMENT DAY Every day is Judgment Day,/Count on no to-morrow./He who will not, when he may, Act to-day, to-day, to-day, Doth but borrow Sorrow.By John Oxenham
JUDGMENT AND MERCY All things God can do, but this thing He will not Unbind the chain of cause and consequence,/Or speed time's arrow backward. Then man chose To know like God, he also chose…
TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by Frances Beaumont Mortality, behold and fear What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within these heaps of stones; Here they lie, had realms and…
MOVING THE FARM SOUTH The Michaels family owned a small farm in Canada, just yards away from the North Dakota border. Their land had been the subject of a minor dispute between the United States…
THE STATES OF WATER A junior high school teacher had been teaching his class the three states of matter: solids, liquids and gas. The following week the teacher was reviewing the previous week's lessons with…
DISHONEST GOLF BUDDIES Sid and Barney head out for a quick round of golf. Since they are short on time, they decide to play only nine holes. Sid offers Barney, "Let's say we make the…
MUSIC FROM THE BLACK CIRCLE You know your stereo equipment is getting old when your grandchildren refer to your record player as the music from the black circle.
NEW BARBARIANS FROM WITHIN I believe that today in the West, and particularly in America, the new barbarians are all around us. They are not hairy Goths and Vandals, swilling fermented brew and ravishing maidens;…
