BLAND LEADING BLAND Old-line American Christianity: "The bland leading the bland."
Sermon Illustrations
RATS OF WORRY "Don't let the rats chew on your harp strings." How often do we let the rats of worry and discouragement chew on our joy in Christ? Let's stay firm in Christ's joy.…
MORE & LESS Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more, and all good things will be yours. -- Swedish Proverb
ADEPT QUALITIES Phillip Crosby, the quality guru, used to give all his new employees a wooden pen holder with the word ADEPT engraved on it. The letters stand for: Accurate, Discrete, Enthusiastic, Productive, Thrifty. In…
WEDDING LUNCH BOXES At the end of the wedding receiving line were two young children distributing little white boxes that looked a bit like lunch boxes. Several good chocolate candies were in each box. The…
UNIVERSE & IDIOTS Programming today is a race between software engineers trying to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.…
TAKES TIME TO BECOME A GENTLEMAN A wonderful friend had died at 92 years of age, and I was pushing a cart with his TV back to his apartment from the health care unit of…
CHURCH NEVER CALLED The church is neither a building nor a business, but a body--the body of Christ. We are members one of another. The tragedy is that in most cases when people put distance…
WATER IN MODERATION Mark Twain: Water taken in moderation cannot hurt anybody.
LESSONS YOUR DOG COULD TEACH YOU Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride. Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure ecstasy. When loved ones…
CLERGY NEED REAL-LIFE SPIRITUALITY For the local congregation to enable life-changing lay ministry, emerging congregational leaders must personally experience faith that transforms human life. The answer does not lie in sharing common liturgy, tradition, dogma…
PORNOGRAPHY ON THE INTERNET There's an awful lot of material on the Internet that children should not have access to. There's material that even I, in my wildest imagination, would not consider publishing. Larry Flint,…
WOMEN TEETH SPEAK LONGER The preacher spoke only for a few minutes and then sat down. After worship, the church leader asked about the short sermon. "My teeth hurt, and so I quit," said the…
BIBLE SYNOPSIS Here is a fine example of the Bible in a nutshell: God made, Adam bit, Noah arked, Abraham split, Joseph ruled, Jacob fooled, Bush talked, Moses balked, Pharaoh plagued, people walked, sea divided,…
CONSIDER CUSTODIANS Don Maddox writes and shares the following: Here's a Thank you to our church custodians, the unsung heroes often at our churches. When I was in seminary, I was a custodian at the…
RELATED TO KING KONG In an attempt to impress his date, a college student told her that he could trace his roots back to royalty. The young lady was already quite bored with his arrogance…
BULLY TELLS THE TEACHER There were times in kindergarten when things got rough for Ned. "There's one boy at school what'n I don't like." "Why?" "Him always picks on me." "How?" "Every time my knock…
MORAL ATTITUDES & PLATITUDES Morality is simply an attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike. -- Oscar Wilde
SIN EXAGGERATES GOOD THINGS Sin . . . rides on the back of many good things. For example, work is a good thing, but sin can take it and exalt it to the point where…
SPIRITUAL VITAMINS A TO Z Anxious? Take Vitamin A "All things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to His purpose." (Romans 8:28) Blue? Take Vitamin B "Bless the…
