MARRIAGE IS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT Marriage is not what I had assumed it would be. One premarital assumption after another has crashed down on my head . . . Marriage is like taking an…
Sermon Illustrations
RUNNING WITH EMILY Bob Jordan is an amateur athlete. He has competed many times in triathlons. That is a competition where you have to swim, run, and ride a bike over a certain distance all…
PURPOSE OF PARABLES One of the ancient philosophers, the Stoic, Epictetus, wanted to teach his disciples a truth everyone needs to learn: that truth understood is of no value; it is truth acted upon which…
TURN BRICKS TO BUILDINGS A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. From newscaster David Brinkley
FOUND SOMEONE TO BLAME Jones's Law: The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on. From Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong! by…
SECONDARY ACCOUNTABILITY I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it. -- Jean Kerr
BRING BACK THE BACON There is a story of an older couple watching TV. The man stretches and says, "Honey, I think I'll go to the kitchen and get some ice cream. Would you like…
WISDOM MUST MAKE SENSE A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. From The Weaver and the Worm, Further Fables for Our Time, by James Thurber (1894-1961)
BRINGING THEIR MAJESTY FORTH In Sweden there is a saying that "in every man there is a king, and in every woman, a queen. If you speak to them as 'Your Majesty,' their majesty will…
MORE BRINGS MORE The more you give, the more you get--- The more you laugh, the less you fret--- The more you do unselfishly, the more you live abundantly--- The more of everything you share,…
DARKENED EYES Prior to modern mining machinery, mules were once used for underground mining. There was no reason to bring the mules to the surface into daylight, so the mules lived their lives underground. They…
HOPE GROWS THE GARDEN Warren Kniskern is one of our new subscribers that we picked up from the Sermons Illustrated crowd we acquired from Jeff Carroll a few months ago. He sent us an illustration…
WEEBLES WOBBLE We loved to buy toys for our children, especially when they were little. One of my favorite toys were Weebles. Weebles were egg-shaped toys on which were painted cartoon characters. The bottom of…
MOST REGRETS Cornell University researchers wanted to know what people most regret. After surveying university employees, students, retired professors and nursing home residents, they found that twice as many people were bothered more by what…
BEETHOVEN'S GRIEF Ludwig Beethoven was not a man known for his social graces. Because of his deafness, he found conversation difficult and humiliating. When he heard of the death of a close friend's son, he…
ANT BRIDGE SOLUTION The ants found their way to the picnic and began to individually take crumbs several times their size back to their colony. But as the ants took the crumbs away, they encountered…
KIND OF NEW CAR A woman tried to sell her old car. She was having a lot of problems selling it, because the car had two hundred thousand miles on it. One day, she told…
PATIENTLY WAITING A department store announced a promotion in which it would give free televisions to the first one hundred people who came to the store on the first day of its Grand Opening. The…
CHRISTIANITY FITS THE LOCK Christianity is accepted because it fits the lock, because it is like life. We are Christians not because we worship a key but because we have passed a door and felt…
HEAVEN'S LIMITS When my father passed away, my daughter-in-law took all five of our grandchildren in her van to the cemetery, so they could all be together and she could attempt to explain to the…
