Sermon Illustrations

The late advice columnist Ann Landers use to receive something like 10,000 letters a month. When asked what seems to be the most common topic, she answered that most people seem to be afraid of something. They are afraid of losing their health, their job, or their family. They are afraid

A friend told me about being in a boat hunting Canadian Geese in the dead of winter on a freezing lake. Bone cold the three of them in a 16-foot aluminum boat hold out for a few more minutes of light and the last chance at a goose. Sure enough their patience is rewarded. Overhead they hea

It's a fascinating story that comes out of the 1989 earthquake which almost flattened Armenia. This deadly tremor killed over 30,000 people in less than four minutes. In the midst of all the confusion of the earthquake, a father rushed to his son's school. When he arrived there he discovere

A grade school teacher asked a little girl to tell the class what Father's Day was. The child thought for a moment and then said, "It's just like Mother's Day only you don't spend as much for the present."

4 years: "My Daddy knows everything." 8 years: "My Dad is really smart." 12 years: "My Dad probably doesn't know that." 16 years: "My Dad is absolutely clueless!" 21 years: "Dad is pretty out-of-touch." 30 years: "I'd like to find out what Dad thinks." 40 years: "Let's g

An Australian psychologist says, "Good fathers make good managers." Steve Biddulph, author of The Secret of Happy Childhood and Manhood, says good fathers turn out to be empathetic, listening managers for whom employees enjoy working. That should not surprise us. We have learned that g

As a mother was walking with her 4-year-old daughter, the girl picked up something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth, and Mom told her not to do that. "Why?" she asked. "Because it's been lying outside and is dirty and probably has germs." At this point, she looked at

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give: He believed in me." (Jim Valvano)

A New York City yuppie moved to the country and bought a piece of land. He went to the local feed and livestock store and talked to the proprietor about how he was going to take up chicken farming. He then asked to buy 100 chicks. "That's a lot of chicks," commented the proprietor. "I me

The man had had a distinguished career. He had been a United States Congressman. He had been the head of the C.I.A. He has been Ambassador to the United Nations. He had been the Chief Liaison Officer in China. He had been Chairman of the Republican National Committee. He had been Vice-Pre