SLAVES OF THEIR MONEY Their property held them in chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgement and throttled their souls. If they had stored up their treasure in heaven,…
Sermon Illustrations
DO WHAT HE TELLS YOU In a speech at Lausanne II in Manila, Luis Palau said that Mary gave a one-line sermon to the attendants at the wedding feast who ran out of wine: "Do…
C. S. LEWIS ON GAMBLING "Gambling ought never to be an important part of a man's life. If it is a way in which large sums of money are transferred from person to person without…
LEVEL OF LOSS He who loses money loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; he who loses faith loses all.
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GETTING MORE BY GIVING Out near Concord, Massachusetts, there is a wayside vegetable stand which we like to patronize. The reason we drive ten miles out of our way to patronize that stand is because…
BEST THINGS NOT THINGS The best things in life are not things.
JUDAS CHOSE MONEY Why did Judas betray Jesus. Several potential reasons given. Speculation on his background and where he came from. John insists that it was monetary greed which finally overwhelmed Judas. Incensed by the…
FILTHY LUCRE Sandor Ferenczi, the Hungarian disciple of Sigmund Freud, once wrote an article with the title "On the Ontogenesis of the Interest in Money." Anticipating some of the attitudes of the 1960s, the doctor…
PAYROLL PRIORITIES One day four employees from different departments rushed to use the copier at the same time. The person from accounts payable said, "We have to get our bills paid, so I should go…
NO INVOLVEMENT Of course it is possible to try not to get involved in man's dilemma; but the only way not to get involved in the dilemma of man is by being young enough, well…
COME TO TAKE THEIR LAND In 1966, a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission took the astronauts near Tuba City where the terrain of the Navajo Reservation looks very much like the…
LOST HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN A distraught man was bemoaning his bad luck to the bartender, "It was two years ago that I lost my wife and my children." The bartender sympathized with the man,…
SHALLOW COMMITMENT A cartoon by Jim Berry depicts a pastor who is performing a marriage ceremony for a young couple with the words: "To have and to hold, until the going gets tough."
BETTER LUCK WITH DEAD RELATIVES The craze for genealogy . . . is connected with the epidemic for divorce . . . If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll…
FAMILY INTRODUCTIONS The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you. -- Kendall Hailey
TALLEST ADULTS A man never stands as tall as when he stoops to help a child.
FROG LEGS TONIGHT It's about time we aligned our fairy tales with the realities of life. So here goes: Once upon a time, a beautiful, independent, self-assured princess happened upon a frog in a pond.…
PACIFIER FOR MOM It had to be the worst day of Mom's life: appliances breaking, telephone and door bell ringing, bills arriving without the money to pay. Feeling like she was at the breaking point,…
WHAT A MARRIAGE HAS A good marriage is when both the husband and wife decide that what they have is better than what they are missing.
GRANDMOTHER OF JESUS The preschooler came home from the first time at Sunday School. Mama was very eager to know how everything was, hoping that her child would like it. "How was it?" the mother…
