BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT I didn't get married until I was almost 36, and then for the next ten years my wife and I were not able to have children. So I was 46 when my wife…
Sermon Illustrations
BETTER TO MOW INDOORS A little boy received a toy lawnmower for Christmas. He pretended to use it in the house but was well aware that he was not really mowing the carpet. He looked…
GLANCE/GLAZE APPROACH We need a glance/gaze approach. We need to glance at the problem and become informed. Then we need to gaze at the solutions and make intelligent, practical responses.
THE WAY YOU FOUND IT A woman called a specialty store and asked the manager if he could get her one dozen mice and three dozen cockroaches. The manager said, the mice wouldn't be a…
UNMADE MINDS If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you. -- Herbert Ager
HUMAN DOING Pastor Robert had not been in the parish long, but many in the congregation were soon wondering how anything had ever gotten done before he arrived. He was young and enthusiastic, a talented…
HEROIC SERVICE True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever the cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever the cost. -- Arthur Ashe
SOUL PROSPERITY The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul. By Alexander Solzhenitsyn, as quoted in Loving God, by Charles…
BUILD CHARACTER FOURSQUARE Build character for God. Make it foursquare, with a spiritual side, a moral side, a mental side, and a physical side. In the spiritual side, square it with Jesus Christ; let it…
DEAD CHURCH IN A COFFIN A pastor had labored faithfully in his church for many years with very little to show for his labors. After careful soul- searching, the pastor came to the painful conclusion…
ALL THE MILK SHE HAS The dairy inspector from the Department of Agriculture paid a visit to an old farmer who had only one cow. While it was more typical for the inspector to visit…
SHORTER ROADS In her classic memoir, To School Through the Fields, Alice Taylor relates an old Irish legend of a ruler who wished to leave his kingdom to the cleverest of his three sons. He…
CAN'T AFFORD TIME OFF Jim was such a good worker, he had just received another raise in pay. But when his brother called him and asked how things were going, Jim said that things were…
OTHER FELLOW When the other fellow takes a long time, he's slow. When I take a long time, I'm thorough. When the other fellow doesn't do it, he's lazy. When I don't do it, I'm…
EMPTY NOTE A man accidentally backed into a car in the parking lot of a shopping mall. He got out, took paper and pencil and wrote a note: "People are watching me and thinking that…
SURVEYING APATHY A company hired a management consultant to determine why there was so much apathy among their employees. The consultant spent time with upper management to determine the company's values, principles and policies. The…
FREE AS A BIRD William Wordsworth in a piece entitled "Prelude" tells how wonderful it was to escape the city where he had been pent up so long. Now he says, "I am free. Free…
A THOUSAND LETTERS Richard Dortch explains how he had a difficult time even wanting to attend church after the fall of PTL. However, through two persistent couples who had befriended the Dortchs, they eventually attended…
LOVE LIKE FIRE Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small; it enkindles the great. -- Comte de Bussy-Rabutin
INFERIOR INFERIORITY COMPLEX Brutus Thornapple is lying on the psychiatrist's couch and the psychiatrist says: "It seems you do indeed suffer from an inferiority complex, Mr. Thornapple. However, It is a relatively minor case." Thornapple,…
