LIVING THE WORDS OF JESUS Merely to repeat Jesus' words is not to continue his work; we must reproduce his life, passion and death. He desires to live again in each one of his disciples…
Sermon Illustrations
DEAF BUT NOT DEAD A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. All the other frogs gathered around the pit. When they saw how deep…
IS KOBE BRYANT HAPPY? Kobe Bryant is the twenty-year-old basketball superstar on the Los Angeles Lakers. Newsweek profiled him on May 31, 1999, saying he is a $70 million man, heir apparent to Michael Jordan,…
PRAYER CHANGES WINGS In his book Exodus to Hidden Valley, Eugene Morse, as part of a family of missionaries, tells the story of how their family was expelled from the mission station they had started…
HANDWRITING ON THE WALL A weary mother returned from the store, Lugging groceries through the kitchen door. Awaiting her arrival was her eight year old son, /Anxious to relate what his younger brother had done.…
YUGOSLAVIAN REVENGE As Albanian Feti Ajvazi returned home after NATO stopped the killing in Kosovo, he was heard to say, "They took all of our things. Now it is our turn to take all of…
PLEASE SLOW DOWN Jack took a long look at his speedometer before slowing down: 73 in a 55 zone... Fourth time in as many months. How could a guy get caught so often? When his…
VICTORIA'S SECRET EXPOSED Victoria's Secret has been discovered. The secret is that nobody who is older than thirty can fit into her stuff.
YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING OLD Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. There are three signs of old age. The first is…
DOUBTS ABOUT HIS DOUBTS In the later years of his life Robert Louis Stevenson was a man of deep and profound faith. It was not always like that, however. Like many young people he rebelled…
HANDS OFF SALLY While touring Eagle's Rock African Safari Zoo with friends from Russia Ronald Demuth, from Vermont, found himself in a tough situation. They were at the petting zoo and saw a rhino that…
THE EYES HAVE IT Bill and Fred were in a mental institution. This place had an annual contest, picking two of the best patients and giving them two questions. If they got them correct, they…
LANDINGS NEED IMPROVEMENT The New Guinean tribesmen's introduction to the white man's Balus or "bird" was sometimes traumatic, sometimes humorous. In the 1950's pilot Peter Manser, flying a Taylorcraft Auster J-5 was carrying a young…
SUNDAY VISITS A man was always too busy to take his son or his grandson to church on Sundays. This grandfather now spends his Sundays visiting his grandson in jail. Adapted from Bill Gothard
LUCKY POLICY About fifty years ago, a newspaper in a large city was trying to increase its number of subscribers by offering an insurance policy included in the cost of the subscription price. New subscribers…
BLIND PILOTS I was flying from San Francisco to Los Angeles. By the time we took off, there had been a 45-minute delay and everybody on board was ticked. Unexpectedly, we stopped in Sacramento on…
WOOD PILE GENEROSITY John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, had a vision of a covenant community that would live in harmony and obedience to God. These are his words: We must follow…
NOTHING CAN GO WRONG The passengers on the commercial flight were settling in for a comfortable flight when a voice came over the loudspeaker welcoming them and announcing that the aircraft had finally reached its…
IMPROVED CREATION The little girl was sitting in her grandfather's lap as he read her a goodnight story. From time to time, she would take her eyes off the book and reach up and touch…
TOO MUCH PATIENCE Just as too much charity is the handiwork of a fool, so too much patience is the hallmark of a coward. From Kabbalah, Jewish Esoteric Doctrine
