ORGANIZED FIST In one Peanuts cartoon it shows, in one series of panels, Linus watching television all alone. In storms Lucy. She demands that he change the channel to what she wants to watch, threatening…
Sermon Illustrations
IMPROVEMENT ON SILENCE A tourist spending the night in a small Vermont town joined a group of men sitting on the porch of the general store. After several vain attempts to start a conversation, he…
GOLDEN INTENTIONS People see your actions, not your intentions. You say your heart is gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.
THE BUNGEE CORD OF LIFE Charlie Brown is sitting at Lucy's psychiatric help booth and he says, "One day I feel good. The next day I feel bad. I have too many ups and downs.…
GOD AND CIRCUMSTANCE When life's challenges hit you, when you face things that you have never faced before, when you are wondering if the light that you see at the end of the tunnel is…
GO OUT EXCUSES I 'd love to go out with you, but... "I'd love to go out with you, but I'm attending the opening of my garage door." "I'd love to go out with you,…
FUTILE LESSON There was a man who would begin to stutter when he would get nervous. He finally decided to face his fears and overcome his stuttering, so he enrolled to learn parachute jumping. He…
TIME & PURPOSE No one on their death-bed ever wished they had spent more time at the office or in front of the television set. Steve Covey in an interview on a December 25, 1997…
Change | Desire | Fellowship with God | Godliness | Responsibility | Sanctification | Transformation
SOAKING OUT THE OLD WAY When we make that leap of faith, it's just as if God immerses us in clean refreshing water. It's just like soaking a porridge pot in which the oatmeal has…
VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD The voice of the sluggard as I heard him complain, Said, "You woke me too early, I must slumber again." Adapted, source unknown
WITH CLEAR PURPOSE Roy Gee writes about Dr. Newton Baker who was the Secretary of War during American President Wilson's administration. While visiting a federal hospital during World War I, Baker visited a young man…
GIVE GOD A SAFE RIDE A country farmer was plowing his fields when he heard a car speeding up the dirt road next to his field. He watched as the car spun off the road…
A REASON TO LOOK LIKE DAD A bald man and his wife one night decided to go out to dinner and hired a baby-sitter to take care of their little children. While they were gone,…
PRINCIPLES PURSUED I love the man who can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is…
LIKE FINE WINE The aging man told his wife that husbands are like fine wine-- they improve with age. So the next day, his wife locked him in the cellar.
SOLVE IT Thomas J. Watson Jr., former head of IBM believed that solving problems quickly was essential to making progress. "Solve it," he declared. "Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve…
SEEDS OF HAPPINESS We do not know how inexpensive the seeds of happiness are or we would scatter them more often.
LITTLE THINGS COUNT A thing cannot be too small to deserve attention. the first thing Sir Isaac Newton did, leading to his most important optical discoveries, was derived from a child's soap bubble. The art…
GROWING IN DARKNESS Plants do their growing during the darkness. The light only reveals how much they have grown.
RELEVANT RESEARCH John J. Shouring received a doctorate from the University of Illinois for his "Study of Some Physical Chemical Factors Affecting Shrinkage of Ice Cream." Purdue University awarded Kirk Kermit Hale a Ph.D. for…
