SACRIFICIAL SUBSTITUTES The Ryatt family is sitting at the dinner table and Mom announces to the kids, "Food is so expensive these days that your father and I have decided to cut out desserts to…
Sermon Illustrations
SANTA BANK QUESTION: Where does Santa Clause keep his money to buy all those toys? ANSWER: Santa keeps his money in a snow-bank!
TITHING OR GIVING Fred Smith in Leadership said, "Giving is a drain plug for our greed. Tithing for wealthy people is an escape from giving."
EQUALLY CHEATED In the "Born Loser," two fellows meet and one asks the other: "Buy a genuine gold Swiss watch for fifty bucks?" The second guy says, "All I've got's a twenty." The first replies:…
UNUSED TREASURE A man in Krem, Austria knew there was a hollow space in the walls of his ancient house, but he never bothered to open it. After World War II Russian troops occupied his…
MY MONEY & ME No person is really consecrated until their money is dedicated. -- Roy Smith
STEWARDSHIP TITLES During the Middle Ages everyone sought status in their titles. Not only was it an "in" thing to be a baron or a knight or any of the nobility, even farm workers coveted…
GIVER'S LAST REQUEST The pastor was visiting one of his congregants who lay dying in the hospital. The pastor leaned over the bed and asked the man, "Is there anything I can do to ease…
THE CATCHER ON THE FLY The Flying Rodleighs are trapeze artists who perform in the German circus. While talking about flying (on the trapeze), the leader of the troupe said, "As a flyer, I must…
THE COLLECTION CONNECTION One of the members of our pastors' study group may have hit on an excellent idea for healthy church- state relations in these difficult economic times. "The greatest thing the federal government…
CARRY-ALL COFFIN In Denver, KUSA channel 9 television news reported on an old beat-up BMW that was parked in Denver on August 6, 1997. Atop the car was a large silver coffin which was wrapped…
BLESSED TROUBLE Trouble, I've learned, can be a blessing. Trouble is the great equalizer, the common denominator of living. It helps us identify with other human beings, and it knocks us down to size. --…
PROGRESSIVE SUCCESS Success is a journey, not a destination. -- 1968 Track & Field Olympic champion Bob Beamon
IMPACT OF CONTEMPLATION We contemplate Christ in silence, and then we go out and look for Him in disguise. -- Mother Theresa
PRAYERFUL HEARTS NEEDED What is needed for ministry is not swift legs for the "rat race" but a listening, prayerful heart. -- Graeme Rutherford
CHURCH-GOING BILLS Bags of old, tattered bills were returned to the United States Treasury. A ONE DOLLAR bill and a TWENTY DOLLAR bill struck up a conversation. The TWENTY DOLLAR bill spoke first: "I went…
PAUL'S PROJECT The Apostle Paul understood the project of trying to raise money for the church in Jerusalem. To do so he did not print up any raffle tickets or try to sell a pie…
EDISON'S ADAPTATIONS I start with something I know & adapt it to some need I see. -- Thomas Edison
RUT OR GRAVE Christians for too long have been in a rut, and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the degree of depth. -- Tillie Magnotti
GET SAINTS OUT OF BED The great task of the church is to get sinners into heaven and saints out of bed! From The Bible Friend, October 1978
