YES CHANGES THE WORLD All God needs to change the world is for you to say "YES."
Sermon Illustrations
KINDNESS TO COMMUNISTS In The Northwestern Lutheran, Joel C. Gerlach writes: "Eight times the Ministry of Education in East Germany said no to Uwe Holmer's children when they tried to enroll at the university in…
LIVING LONGER LIVES A young single woman just learned from her doctor that she only had one year to live. "Isn't there anything I can do to extend my life?" she asked her doctor. "The…
INCREDIBLE CONSEQUENCES Barry Segal in his article about how ridiculous it is to give in to negative arguments. Alarmists, worrying about such matters as nuclear holocaust and pesticide poisoning may be overlooking much more dire…
MILITARY COMPASSION The Washington Post once reported that the Department of Defense was testing two anti-vomiting drugs that it hoped would allow soldiers, for a short time after a nuclear attack, to continue to perform…
LOVE & HATRED Love is the willingness to sacrifice for others. Hatred is the willingness to sacrifice others. By Michael Hodgin
TEETHING OR TITHING In a Wizard Of Id comic, a couple greets a Friar Tuck-type outside the front doors of the Church. The wife says to the Friar, "I apologize for my baby's crying in…
MALICIOUS PEOPLE A malicious person is usually covering something up, if you wait long enough they will usually hang themselves. -- Warren Wiersbe From Moody Pastors' Conference Guideline Book, 1994, pg. 4
VERBAL MURDER To kill with a sharp tongue takes longer, but is just as deadly when we destroy someone's hope, joy, reputation, enthusiasm, and such.
DOUBLE-MINDED Double- minded means to look both ways at the same time. You are indecisive and lack conviction. Your favorite color is plaid. You speak in footnotes, not confident enough to claim an opinion for…
ADVICE, WISDOM, & AGE Never give advice in a crowd. -- Arab proverb Never give advice unless asked. -- German proverb Whatever advice you give, be short. -- Horace Never advise anyone to go to…
TRUTH OR FICTION Truth is shorter than fiction.
C. S. LEWIS ON REVERENCE In his commentary of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis tells why Aslan the Lion explained to the children the need for atonement. He writes, "...Why…
TRUTH & COMPLIMENTS "You appear to be a man of intelligence," the opposing lawyer said during a trial as he cross-examined a witness. The witness replied, "I would be glad to say the same of…
WHEN GOD MADE MOMS Jan Hodgin-Hartlove of Longmont, Colorado found the following on the Internet about Moms. We saw that we had another version of the same story sent to us by Mary Spitzer of…
CALVIN'S CARD In the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip, Calvin wakes his mother up on Mother's Day: "Hey Mom, Wake up! I made you a Mother's Day card!" "My, how sweet of you!" "I did…
DIME OUT OF A QUARTER A grandmother took her granddaughter along with her when she went to the grocery store. The granddaughter was excited to go because she had a quarter, and she wanted to…
UNENDING WHY My sister and I would frustrate our parents with the perpetual "WHY." When we arrived at the age where children question everything their parents say. We would use the question why to make…
BRIGHT CHILDREN Why is it that our children can brighten our lives, but they don't seem to know how to turn out the lights? From Bruce Rowlison, Gilroy, California
POWER OF THE SCALES Two curious little boys were looking at the bathroom scales. "How does this thing work?" asked one of the boys. The other boy answered, "I'm not sure exactly, but I do…
