FRONDS & ENEMAS A skeptical anthropologist was cataloging South American folk remedies with the assistance of a tribal brujo who indicated that the leaves of a particular fern were a sure cure for any case…
Sermon Illustrations
SOUNDING LIKE MY CHILD The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year- old. -- Jean Kerr
DRIVE-UP STETHOSCOPE An acquaintance of mine who is a physician told this story about her then four-year-old daughter. On the way to preschool, the doctor had left her stethoscope on the car seat, and her…
LOCH NESS MONSTER & GOD An atheist was spending a quiet day fishing when suddenly his boat was attacked by the Loch Ness monster. In one easy flip, the beast tossed him and his boat…
FREQUENT FLYER FATHER A man's career kept requiring more and more travel. After a long trip away from home the man's wife and children met him at the airport with loving hugs and kisses. On…
ANOTHER DEFINITION OF COMMITTEE What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. By Richard Harkness, New York Times, 1960
AGING CONCERNS God grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference. Now that I'm…
GLOBAL OUTREACH Jesse and Nettie Miller, in their missions letter, tell about a new worker with Cadence International. This missions worker, Alex Jeruchik, fled from Russia as a youth to Argentina to escape oppression. He…
WRONG GOD After church one Sunday, I noticed my five-year-old son writing something in his take-home Sunday School paper. "Dad," he said how do you spell, "God?" I was so pleased that he was obviously…
KARATE MOVIES Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the…
RIGHT TIME TO DIE One time my daughter and I were taking the Grayline Bus Tour of Chicago. As our bus stopped in front of a movie theater, our guide pointed to an alley, and…
ENCYCLOPEDIC SPOUSE FOR SALE BY OWNER Complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica. 45 volumes. Excellent condition. $1,000 or best offer. No longer needed. Got married last weekend. Wife knows everything.
MAKING HIS OWN OPPORTUNITIES Victor Kiam told of a time a young man wanted to work for him at Remington. After looking over the applicant's resume, he told him there was nothing available. But the…
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER THE CLASSIC VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool…
CHOOSING MY OWN ATTITUDE Viktor Frankl, a survivor of the Holocaust, was once investigated by the German Gestapo court in a Nazi concentration camp. The German soldiers stripped Frankl of all his possessions-his clothes, his…
SEVEN FACTORS FOR GROWTH Rick Kirchoff of the Germantown United Methodist Church in Germantown, Tennessee conducts one day workshops to provide, within local church settings, a working knowledge of how to develop and operate an…
SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE A guy was walking along the beach when he ran across a lamp. He picked it up, rubbed it and, of course, a genie popped out. The genie told his new master he…
QUICK WIT A tourist traveling down a country road in the deep south passes a young boy walking down the road with only one shoe on. The tourist stops the car and asks the boy,…
EDGE OF POVERTY I make a point of staying right at the edge of poverty. I don't have a pair of pants without a hole in them, and the only pair of boots I have…
THE TWENTY-THIRD CHANNEL The TV is my shepherd; my spiritual growth shall want. It maketh me to sit down and do nothing for His name's sake because it requireth all my leisure time. It keepeth…
