FEAR ONLY AT NIGHT "Do your folks have family prayer before breakfast?" asked little George. "Nope," said little Albert, "we have prayers before we go to bed at night. We ain't afraid in the daytime."
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AAHH, DAD! The piercing public address loudspeaker resounded throughout the football stadium: Number 21, Pat Simmons and his father, Mark Simmons. Number 66, Mike Garner and his father, Theodore Garner. Toby lingered at line's end,…
VALUABLE INHERITANCE The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have. From Living, Loving and Learning, by Leo Buscaglia
PARENTS AND TELEVISION Children see television much the same way they see a refrigerator or a stove -- it's something that parents provide. In a young child's mind, parents probably condone what's on the television,…
BABY TROUBLE Babies are always more trouble that you thought -- and more wonderful. Charles Osgood, "CBS Morning News"
OPPORTUNITY HONKS For the modern girl, opportunity doesn't knock anymore; it parks in front of her house and honks the horn.
FREE GIRL IS EXPENSIVE Nothing can be more expensive than a girl who happens to be free for the evening.
RICH ANCESTORS Misers aren't much fun to live with but they make wonderful ancestors.
SOMETIMES TWO PARENTS One trouble with juvenile delinquency nowadays is not always apparent... sometimes it's two parents!
MOTHERS REMEMBERED Men are what their mothers make them. -- Proverb No mother has a homely child -- Yiddish proverb A mother is the only person on earth who can divide her love among ten…
CREATIVE SOLUTION The Sunday School teacher had just read the story of how God created man. She asked the class if they had any questions. One of the little boys raised his hand and said,…
MARK TWAIN ON WIFE-BEATING When I was in London twenty-three years ago there was a new penalty in force for diminishing garroting and wife-beating - 25 lashes on the bare back with the cat-o'- nine-tails.…
MONOSYLLABIC MALES After twenty-plus years of asking me questions and receiving monosyllabic answers like "uh: and "mmm," she (my wife) claims this inability to communicate in understandable sentences remains constant throughout the male lifespan! From…
MARRIAGE TRADE-INS The four-year-old daughter of a used car salesman, attending her first church wedding, watched as the bride walked to the altar on the arm of an elderly gray-haired man. She stared in amazement…
REAL DIFFERENCES Men are different from women. They are equal only in their common membership of the same species, humankind. To maintain that they are the same in aptitude, skill or behavior is to build…
THE IDEAL MALE COMBINATION I 'd be the happiest girl in the world if only I could combine the two men I'm dating," one girl said to a friend. "One of them is incredibly handsome,…
NO NEED FOR SCHOOL A six-year-old boy came home dejected from his first day at school and announced, "I am not going to school tomorrow." "Why not?" his mother inquired. The boy answered, "I can't…
OPPORTUNITY MISSED or JURY PIGS A new attorney had filed suit on behalf of his first client against a man for stealing 24 of his client's hogs. In his attempt to make an impression on…
YOU CAN SMELL THE FREEDOM Millions of Americans don't know how truly fortunate they are to be able to openly criticize their government and its leaders, to be able to bring suit against public officials,…
THE NEXT BEST THING A man was beginning to have health problems, so he went to see his doctor. His doctor examined him and told him, "The best thing you can do to restore your…
