CO-DEPENDENCE IN CHURCHES Every church has it share of stompers, church hoppers, blackmailers, and pot-stirrers. They get their "feelings" hurt, stop coming, stop contributing and start complaining. Some church people chase them down, pat their…
Sermon Illustrations
CHURCH AND POKER Church membership is like a poker game; you're either in or you're out. If you're in, then ante up. -- Ken Adair, lawyer.
ALL THIS FOR ME In California a small boy accidentally fell into an abandoned mine shaft. His playmate ran for help. Rescue workers moved in by the score. Heavy machinery was brought in and tons…
CHRISTIAN ENDURANCE Criticism and opposition he endured without recrimination. A Christian should be a patient, undaunted, undiscouraged torchbearer for Christ. If a storm of abuse should chance to break on him, he is to stand…
SUCCESSFUL CHRISTIANS Let's -- all of us -- decide to stop trying to convince the world that Christianity is true because Jesus makes us prettier, happier, thinner, wealthier, bigger, more successful, more popular, healthier, more…
THE PROBLEM WITH TEMPTATION The problem with resisting temptation is that there is such an incredible conflict of interests...
BURDENS & FRIENDS Even heaviest burdens are lighter when friends are there to help lift.
UNBRIDLED LUST In A Requiem for Love, Calvin Miller pictures unbridled lust as a cannibal who commits suicide by nibbling on himself. As ridiculous as this sounds, that's just how ridiculous and obviously destructive unbridled…
FARMERS OR POETS No race can prosper until it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling the field as in writing a poem. From Up from Slavery, by Booker T. Washington
OBEDIENCE & LEADERSHIP He who cannot obey cannot command. -- Ben Franklin
CHRISTIANITY KILLER Prosperity has often been fatal to Christianity, but persecution never. An Amish bishop quoted in The Economist
CONSISTENT CHRISTIANS Channel surfing one night I heard a preacher say: "Don't be professing something you ain't professing... We've got to get to the place where we quit acting like brothers and become brothers."
ATHEIST SUPPORT An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. -- John Buchan (1875-1940)
Attributes of God | Communication | Computers | Faith | Grammar | Idolatry | Monotheism | Technology
POLITICALLY CORRECT COMPUTER Political correctness is a little much. One man recently composed a letter on his computer using the popular product of Bill Gates known as "Microsoft Windows." In closing the letter, he wrote,…
REAL WHEN ALONE Vance Havner said it so well, "So many of us are living subnormal lives, that when we see people that are living normal lives, it seems abnormal." Walter Cronkite was getting on…
SAY GOODNIGHT Paul Tournier tells of a Swiss woman who lived in a large apartment house and worked in a shop with many people, but every evening she would tune into the "Sign Off" of…
CARRY TWO STONES A man should carry two stones in his pocket. On one should be inscribed, "I am but dust and ashes." On the other "For my sake was the world created." And he…
OLD ADAM IS STRONG I still struggle with the old Adam, and so do you. I can see you doing it. Young Philip Melancthon, the colleague of Martin Luther, once wrote to Luther and said,…
LOVE THEM ALL We must learn to see the waiter and waitress, the news vendor, the bellboy, the elevator operator, as people whose hearts may be in need. We need not be at all impressed…
THE PLACE OF THE DAMNED by Jonathan Swift All folks who pretend to religion and grace, Allow there's a HELL, but dispute of the place: But, if HELL may by logical rules be defined The…
