Sermon Illustrations

A drunk man who smelled like beer sat down on a subway seat next to a priest. The man's tie was stained, his face was plastered with red lipstick, and a half empty bottle of gin was sticking out of his torn coat pocket. He opened his newspaper and began reading. After a few minutes the ma

I Surrender, Some There Shall Be Sprinkles of Blessings Fill My Spoon, Lord Oh, How I Like Jesus He's Quite a Bit to Me I Love to Talk About Telling the Story Take My Life and Let Me Be It Is My Secret What God Can Do There Is Scattered Cloudiness in My Soul Today Just As I Pretend to Be

Visitors to Milan, Italy, are often disappointed when they see DaVinci's famous painting "The Last Supper." It was painted on the wall of a monastery dining room and by now the colors are so faint you can barely see the painting. Restoration has been going on for years with little success

In his book The Man Who Was Thursday G.K. Chesterton put these words in the mouth of one of his characters: "We have only known the back of the world." It must certainly be remembered that our knowledge of the world is partial. Paul said we see through a glass darkly. Looking at the world

Dr. William Ott and his wife spent their 1986 vacation ministering in the Philippines. Working hard in a politically unstable area and spending several thousand dollars of their own money, they upgraded the training and equipment of a mission sponsored dental clinic. All they got on the h

Eighteen-year-old Hudson Taylor wandered into his father's library and read a gospel tract. He couldn't shake off its message. Finally, falling to his knees, he accepted Christ as his Savior. Later his mother, who had been away, returned home. When Hudson told her the good news, she said,

I saw an interesting political cartoon the other day in the paper. John Tower was on the witness stand and was asked: "What would you do if we rejected your nomination on the grounds that you're a boozing womanizer?" His reply: "Move to Massachusetts and run for the U.S. Senate…

One percent of the child's time is spent under the influence of the Sunday school: seven percent under the influence of the public school; 92 percent under the influence of the home. -Albert S. Taylor

Henry Ward Beecher related an incident about Charles Smith, a laborer on his father's farm in Litchfield, Connecticut. He said, "He had a little room, in one corner of which I had a small cot. As a boy I used to lie there and wonder at the enthusiasm with which that farmhand engaged in his d

No Vacancy Those words, "There was no room for them in the inn," remind me of an experience my family had several years ago. We had been traveling all day, and I was trying to find a motel where we could spend the night. It was getting late, and the children were tired and fidgety. As we