CONSCIENCE & FUTURE JUDGMENT I sat alone with my conscience In a place where time had ceased, And we talked of my former living In the land where the years increased, And I felt I…
Sermon Illustrations
ROAD-KILL POSSUM A sign in a restaurant in remote town in the Southeastern United States read: Don't even ask if we serve Road Kill Possum... We only serve ranch-raised possum!
ADDICTIONS & STOPPING THEM One day this mechanic was working late under a car and some brake fluid dripped into his mouth. Wow! That stuff isn't too bad tasting, he thought. Next day he told…
MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE The kindergarten teacher was showing her class a large poster that displayed flags from a number of countries. She pointed to the American flag and asked, "What flag is this?"…
BREAD & WATER WITH KETCHUP Two little boys were visiting their grandfather, and the grandfather took them to a restaurant for lunch. They couldn't make up their minds about what they wanted to eat. Finally…
BECOMING A DRAGONFLY Once there was a colony of waterbugs like other waterbug colonies. The waterbugs worked together to make the colony better. But once in a while a waterbug would leave and go up…
GONNA HAVE A WIFE At Sunday School they were teaching how God created everything, including human beings. Little Tommy, a child in the kindergarten class, seemed especially intent when they told him how Eve was…
COMMUNION RESTORATION Newsweek reports (6-7-99) that Leonardo Da Vinci 's masterpiece, The Last Supper, has been disintegrating over the years. Past efforts to keep it from deteriorating any further have included clumsy overpaintings and even…
CUTTING UP MOMMY A two-year-old girl noticed a scar on her mother's abdomen. Her mother explained that the doctor had to cut open her belly to take her daughter out. "Oh, Mommy," the sympathetic girl…
WRAPPED IN FLAGS A young man came to America from England and became a citizen. He traveled to Cuba and spent some time there. When civil war broke out in Cuba in 1867, he was…
THOUGHTS ON AGING Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. Insanity is my only means of relaxation. My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely. Everytime I think about exercise, I lie down…
COWBOY PHILOSOPHY Philosophical tidbits gleaned from riding the range with the cowboys: If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there with ya.…
WALLENDA ON TRUST Tino Wallenda uses his children as examples of genuine trust: At one time or another I have taken each of my four children, Alida, Andrea, Aurelia and Alessandro, on my shoulders as…
OUTLAWS CONVERTED In a Chilean revival, the worship services were drawing thieves in such numbers that the police no longer had to give chase. In Valparaiso, Chile, the Chilean Methodist Pentecostal Church had evening meetings…
PHILOSOPHIC CONFUSION Philosophers can be terribly confusing. What they call deep and profound we're tempted to consider dull and vague. One honest soul put it rather well: "Philosophers are people who talk about things they…
FREE SPEECH CAN HURT If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. -- George Orwell
PRAISE & CRITICISM Mary Kay Ash said about criticism: "Never giving criticism without praise is a strict rule for me. No matter what you are criticizing, you must find something good to say--both before and…
READING SOCRATES The more I read him, the less I wonder that they poisoned him. Thomas Babington Macaulay, on Socrates cited in James Charlton's Fighting Words, p. 1
A JEWISH BOY MADE IT Two women lived in a nursing home were constantly bragging about their families. Molly was a Catholic and Sarah was a Jew. Molly received word that one of her grandsons…
VODKA WAGES Teachers in central Russia will be receiving their monthly salaries in vodka, because the government's coffers are empty, the ITAR_Tass news agency reported. The 8,000 educators in Altai Republic, about 1,850 miles east…
