GOOD NATURE An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest…
Sermon Illustrations
PLANTING SEEDS Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
TEACH THE FROG TO COOK When we find ourselves too busy to pray, read the Bible, and worship in the church, something is seriously out of kilter in our lives. We need to be reminded…
DREAMS THAT LIVE Some of us let our dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days 'til they bring them to sunshine and light. -- Woodrow Wilson
WORKING DOG A salesman dropped in to see a business customer. Not a soul was in the office except a big dog who was emptying wastebaskets. The salesman stared at the animal, wondering if his…
CIRCULAR FORECASTS The Cree people asked their Chief in the autumn, if the winter was going to be cold or not. Not really knowing an answer, the Cree chief replied that the winter was going…
THEIR PAIN IN YOUR HEART You have truly learned to sympathize with others when you are able to carry their pain in your heart.
FACE YOUR FEARS It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person: "Always do what you are afraid to do." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
TAKING NOTICE OR ACTION It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action. -- Al Batt
MICKEY MANTLE'S FAITH Bobby Richardson, who officiated at Mickey Mantle's funeral, related to me that he has received more than three hundred letters from people who said they had been praying for Mickey in the…
NOT ENOUGH LIVING In the next war, none of us can count on having enough living to bury our dead. -- John Robert Oppenheimer
TOO LATE FOR JOE A preacher, early in his ministry, fresh out of seminary, and his wife attended a funeral in a small, hot, crowded church in rural Georgia. An obviously uneducated, country preacher shouted,…
GOOD, BETTER, BEST Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best. By St. Jerome
RESURRECTION RESISTANCE Two caterpillars were crawling across the grass when a butterfly flew over them. They looked up, and one nudged the other and said, "You couldn't get me up in one of those things…
OPEN UKRAINIAN GATES Many Ukrainian Easter cards portray gardens with beautiful flowers - with an easily overlooked detail: the gate to the garden is ajar, left open just a bit. The meaning for this is…
RESURRECTED EMPLOYEES If you don't believe in the resurrection of the dead you ought to be here five minutes before quitting time! Sign in San Francisco wholesale florist, taken from the April, 1981 issue of…
CHRISTMAS POETRY That Christmas Day, if you were God, And that was your Son on that stable sod. Wrapped for death with its sin cursed sting. Would you have made the angels sing? Would you…
VICTIM BECOMES VICTOR The Victim of Good Friday is the Victor of Easter. From the September, 1991 issue of Parables, Etc.
GOOD FRIDAY IS BEST AND WORST In the B.C. comic strip on March 29, 1991, Wiley sitting under a tree on Good Friday, writes a poem: When History has recorded it all, Events both happy…
BELIEVE THE ONE WHO ROSE An agnostic professor condescendingly confronted a little girl who believed in the Jesus, "There are many throughout history who have claimed they were God. How can you be sure who…
