CHRISTMAS HEART The Christmas heart is a gentle heart, Malice and envy have no part. Coldness and bitterness cannot stay, Where the spirit of Christmas holds full sway. Beyond joy enter and grief depart, When…
Sermon Illustrations
THE WONDER OF CHRISTMAS During the Christmas rush two men were standing on 5th Avenue at 57th Street in New York City waiting for a red light. One of them was irritated by the traffic.…
CHRISTMAS FORM LETTERS A distraught woman wrote to Ann Landers and asked her why normally intelligent people seem to take leave of their senses at Christmas. She referred to those individuals who compose interminable chronicles…
PRICE OF CHRISTMAS There is a price for anything worthwhile in life and the price of Christmas is belief.
COST OF A UNIVERSITY A lady in a faded gingham dress and old overcoat and her husband, wearing a simple, homespun, threadbare wool suit, stepped off the train in Boston one winter's day and timidly…
GIFT OF ETERNITY An English post-office clerk, whose job it was to handle letters that were inadequately addressed, was at his desk on Christmas Eve. He was broken-hearted because death had taken his little son.…
MEETING JESUS IN THE ADVENT Love came down, Jesus came down at Christmas, but through the Holy Spirit, Jesus, our Shepherd King, comes into our lives everyday. We affirm that during Advent, Jesus still comes…
THE WISE MEN By: G. Rotelli; age 9 O Wise Men, O Wise Men, Circle Round The Cradle Tonight, With the Little Baby Jesus' Holy Light, Bring Gifts and Presents For This Special Day, And…
MARY AS A MODEL OF FAITH In St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome, Michelangelo's Pieta is carefully guarded. A few years ago, the sculpture was attacked by a man with a hammer. He damaged the face…
JONI'S GIFT Joni Eareckson said her first Christmas after her diving accident was a most depressing one for a seventeen-year-old quadriplegic. "I couldn't go and shop for that extra-special gift for people on my list.…
MARY'S CONCEPTION Luther about Mary: that before Mary could conceive Him in her womb, she first had to conceive Him in her heart. Spurgeon describes the Emmanuel as God with us in our nature, in…
HOE, HOE, HOE FOR DOUGH A homeless man approached a deacon of a church and asked, "Could you spare a few dollars? I'm hungry and need to buy food for my family." The deacon thought…
STABLE OF YOUR LIFE Where is the stable of your life...where is Christ being born in the smelly shadows of your inner self? Have you allowed the wise to come and open their treasures for…
WRAPPING IN LOVE Christmas joy and peace comes not from wrapping presents, but in wrapping people . . . as God has wrapped us, in love. -- Bauer
JESUS CHRISTMAS A five-year-old boy kept referring to Jesus as JESUS CHRISTMAS. When questioned, he confidently explained, "Well, his mother's name is MARY CHRISTMAS."
CHRISTMAS FROM HEART TO HEART Christmas began in the heart of God and is complete only when it reaches the heart of man. From a Christmas card
JOHNNY DISCOVERED AMERICA The teacher asked Johnny to go to the map and find North America. Johnny went to the map, pointed to North America, and said, "Here it is! "That is correct," the teacher…
FORCED WILLINGNESS A couple who planned to get married were filling out the wedding preparation forms for the church where they were to get married. One of the questions read, "Are you entering this marriage…
SHOWER OR BATH A man checking into a hotel in France was asked by the clerk whether he preferred a bath or shower. Thinking of the cost, he asked, "What's the difference?" The clerk looked…
LOSING MEMBERS An elderly old pastor said, "Some people think they hurt the church when they get mad and quit. But they are wrong. It never hurts the trees when the old dried up apples…
