“My children, our love is not to be just words or mere talk, but something real and active; only by this can we be certain that we are children of the truth” (I John 3:18-19).…
Sermon Illustrations
“How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” (Psalms 119:103). Author Dolores Curran writes in her book Traits of a Healthy Family: Recently, for my weekly newspaper column, I…
“. . . unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matthew 18:3). A little girl had a problem. She was very much worried because her brother…
“Our end was near our days were numbered” (Lamentations 4:18). A little boy in summer camp went to the infirmary complaining of a cold. The nurse said to him, “I’ll give you a Tylenol and…
“Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after Me, cannot be My disciple,” Jesus said (Lk. 14:27). The term “Hobson’s Choice” crept into the English language in the late seventeenth century. Thomas Hobson…
“Do not be worried about your life, as to what you drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?”…
“In a short time you will no longer see me, and then a short time later you will see me again” (John 16:17). In the city that was once Constantinople, a visitor to the Mosque…
“For where two or three have gathered in My Name, I am in their midst” (Matthew 18:20). A very devout and faithful Irishman named Patty O’Doul left his native country and came to New York…
“As they were leading Him away they seized on a man, Simon from Cyrene…and made him shoulder the Cross and carry it behind Jesus” (Luke 23:26). Many years ago, “New Yorker” magazine ran an article…
“Practice such things and the God of peace will be with you” (Philippians 4:9). In a magazine cartoon, a mother and father are arguing over junior ’s budding musical career. “Very well,” the exasperated father…
“When the scribes of the Pharisee party saw Him eating with sinners (prostitutes and publicans,) they said to His disciples, "Why does He eat with publicans and sinners?” When Jesus heard this, He said to…
“Let us return and visit the brethren in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord and see how they are” (Acts 16:36). Legend has it that a missionary, lost at sea,…
“I have given you an example so that you may copy what I have done…” (John 13:15). According to Malcolm Muggeridge, in “Something Beautiful for God,” Calcutta’s Angel of Mercy, Mother Teresa, shared her insight…
We call ourselves civilized people, cultured people, humanitarians, yet the newspapers scream out murder, violence and the scandal of human exploitation. Can it be that we no longer choose to invest the life we have…
“Jesus said, ‘Who touched Me?’” (Luke 8:45). Imagine for a moment… there she is, a young woman with the radiant smile — leaning against one of the stalls, her eyes in her happy face closed.…
“…His mercy reaches from Age to Age…the hungry He has filled with good things” (Luke 1:31). The work of Christmas begins: When the song of the angels is stilled, When the Star in the sky…
“And she gave birth to her firstborn Son; she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn” (Luke 2:7). At a married couple’s…
“Today a Savior has been born to you; He is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:11). At Christmastime, a schoolteacher in England supervised the construction of a manger scene in a corner of the classroom. It…
"Lord…help your servants to proclaim Your Message with all boldness, by stretching out Your hand to heal and to work miracles and marvels through the Name of Your Holy Servant Jesus” (Acts 4:29,30). “The Boy…
“She wrapped Him in swaddling clothes” (Luke 2:7) One woman's fond Christmas memory: The day was frightfully cold, with swirls of snow in the air, and I was looking out the living room window which…
