HIGH WIRE FOCUS When I was seven years old, my grandfather, Karl Wallenda, put me on a wire two feet off the ground. He taught me all the elementary skills: how to hold my body…
Sermon Illustrations
SOVEREIGN SHIP In his book, The Knowledge of the Holy, A. W. Tozer gives this illustration of sovereignty: An ocean liner leaves New York bound for Liverpool. Its designation has been determined by proper authorities.…
DIED IN THE SERVICE One Sunday morning, the pastor noticed a little boy was staring up at the large plaque that hung in the foyer of the church. It was covered with names, and small…
PORTIONS OF GRACE If God wants you to do something, he'll make it possible for you to do it, but the grace he provides comes only with the task and cannot be stockpiled beforehand. We…
SUNDAY SCHOOL PERSPECTIVES Three rules in teaching Sunday School: be sincere, be brief, be seated. Everyone who thinks there ought to be a Sunday School ought to attend Sunday School. The most expensive piece of…
FAME & FUTILITY Ava Gardner said at the age of sixty that she would have traded all of her fame and success for one happy, long-lasting marriage.
INTERNATIONAL AMERICANS A few years back a textile mill in Pennsylvania discovered that it had a team of employees who represented an interesting assortment of Americans with a unique task. The sorting was done by…
BLESSED ARE THE TITHERS Blessed are the tithers, for they are obeying one of God's fundamental laws. Blessed are the tithers, for they are partners with God. Blessed are the tithers, for they are helping…
THREE FRIENDS & A NICKEL In the 1860s a young Hungarian boy landed at New York's Ellis Island and sought entrance into the United States of America. The boy had five cents in his pocket.…
WHEN GOD'S PEOPLE START PRAYING Whenever God is ready to begin something new with His people, he always sets them to praying. -- Dr. J. Edwin Orr
CANNOTS BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1. You cannot bring prosperity by discouraging thrift. 2. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. 3. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. 4. You…
GHANDI ON SEVEN SINS OF A DYING SOCIETY Ghandi, a now deceased, non-Christian world leader listed seven sins of a dying society that are capable of rotting out a nation from the inside: Wealth without…
LEVELS OF SANITY HoW To KeEp A =A0 hEaLtHy =A0 LeVeL Of InSaNiTy AnD dRiVe OtHeR PeOpLe iNsAnE... At lunch time, sit in your parked car and point a hair dryer at passing cars to…
TWO KINDS OF POWER Monhandas Ghandi once said, "Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by the art of love. Power based on love is a…
FACET REFLECTIONS A diamond is just a rock and cannot display the properties of full light reflection until it has 26 sides cut into it. It doesn't work with less nor need more facets cut…
DEVELOPING INTO CHRIST One of my hobbies is photography. I have a darkroom where I enjoy making prints of pictures for my church, my friends and myself. Making a print still fascinates me after all…
USE OR DECAY Jack Dean writes, "Life teaches us by examples surrounding us that not to use or be used is to invite rust, decay, demise. To stop working and using self is to stop…
MISSION OR INTERMISSION Make your life a mission--not an intermission. - - Arnold Glasgow
WAITING ON GOD From the Princeton Seminary Bulletin: "When you wait on that which God has promised, it is not a lie on which you have fixed your heart. It is not a vain hope…
TWO STREAMS IN PROPHECY There are two streams in prophetic scripture. One leads us to understand that as we approach the latter days and the second coming of Christ, things will become worse and worse...But…
