GETTING EVERYTHING TO COME OUT EVEN "I'm working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday,…
Sermon Illustrations
FORMS OF COMMUNICATION Half a dozen days after the invasion of Laos, while the event was as yet unannounced in this country, Secretary of Defense Laird came out of a meeting with the Armed Services…
TRUE CONVERSATION No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. Ed Howe, Forbes
DISCUSSION a method of confirming others in their errors. Ambrose Bierce
MIRACLE (A SIXTH GRADER'S DEFINITION) A miracle is something extraordinary that happens without any strings attached. Randell Tschotter, Loerner Heights Church, Newton, Kansas. 67114
MINISTERIAL MELODY Never trust someone who has to change his tone to ask something of the Lord. Robert Everett, Reader's Digest
TOO OLD None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
LISTEN! It's impossible for a worthwhile thought to enter your mind through an open mouth. Funny, Funny World
SKILL AND COURAGE If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage. Ashleigh Brilliant, All I Want
IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE ANGELS Have you ever seen an angel? Dr. S. W. Mitchell thought he had. Dr. Mitchell was a well-known neurologist in Philadelphia. After one very tiring day, he retired…
ANGELS ON ASSIGNMENT This happened in 1956 during the Mau Mau uprisings in East Africa and the story is told by missionary Morris Plotts. A band of roving Mau Maus came to the village of…
MODERN ANGELS In the cartoon "For Better or For Worse" (about family life), a mother is on a plane with two children. Her five-year-old boy is next to the window, playing with the curtain and…
GOD'S SPECIAL MESSENGER In the spring of 1982, I attended a morning prayer group which meets in a town within the suburbs of Springfield, Illinois. I was the speaker for this meeting. Before I spoke,…
TRAIN STOPS JUST IN TIME The British express train raced through the night, its powerful headlamp spearing the black darkness ahead. The train was carrying Queen Victoria. Suddenly the engineer saw a startling sight. Revealed…
MODERN "ANGELS UNAWARES" In 1958, my mother introduced me to the world of flowers by bringing me several irises (often called "flags") from Missouri. For years I grew them for their beauty alone, but gradually…
BACK TO LIFE A 70 -year-old lady in a household was the only one who had knowledge of most of the daily operations of her family as well as the operations of a house church.…
NO ANGELS You think there are no angels any more -- No angels come to tell us in the night Of joy or sorrow, love or death -- No breath of wings, no touch of…
WITNESS TO ANGELS Six Soviet cosmonauts said they witnessed the most awe-inspiring spectacle ever encountered in space -- a band of glowing angels with wings as big as jumbo jets. According to "Weekly World News,"…
SOUNDS LIKE ANGELS We so often hear the expression "the voice of an angel!" that I got to wondering what an angel would sound like. So I did some research, and discovered that an angel's…
LOOK -- GRANDPA IS WALKING! Everyone in the town thought highly of old Dr. Wang. For several generations his family had lived in the two-storied house surrounding an open courtyard. Trained in western medicine, he…
