Sermon Illustrations

A.W. Tozer said, "To genuinely worship Jesus as Lord of all is immediately to challenge all false gods, and to pose a threat to their dark and dingy domains."  

Erma Bombeck once wrote about what she would do differently If I Had My Life to Live Over: "I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded. I would have eaten the popcorn in the "GOOD" living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted

A woman in Florida had a malignant tumor in the facial area. Her physician told her that the only available treatments would cause much pain and some disfigurement. The treatments did not offer a cure, but they would probably buy her more time. She listened and then said, 'No thanks, doctor, I'm not

In a recent column in SBC Life (April 2003), Charles Lowery observed, "Life is like Monopoly. You may be pastoring First Church Boardwalk or you may be pastoring First Church Baltic. It doesn't really matter because in the end it all goes back in the box. The next generation will be getting out al

Baseball legend Casey Stengel once noted, "The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided."  

The American Medical Association (AMA) issued a statement showing endorsement of cloning and stem-cell research, even though both processes result in killing human embryos, according to a July 18 Agape Press news story. The report indicates that many doctors are alarmed and dismayed that the organ

In a Nov. 12 article in The Daily Standard (webzine of The Weekly Standard), Wesley J. Smith writes, "Most of the time, we never know for sure what a starved or dehydrated person experiences. But in at least one case - that of a young woman who had her feeding tube removed for eight days and lived t

In his book Be Mature, Warren Wiersbe observes, "Not everybody who grows old, grows up. Ideally, the older we are, the more mature we should be; but too often the ideal does not become the real. The result is problems - problems in personal lives, in homes, and in churches. As a pastor, I see more

Adrian Rogers tells a story about a man who loved gold. Then he inherited a fortune. With joy he redecorated his bedroom. He put gold parchment wallpaper up, hung yellow curtains, had a golden colored rug and a yellow bedspread. He even bought some yellow pajamas. But then he got sick and came down

Bob attended a seminar on interpersonal relationships and became convinced that he needed to do a better job of showing appreciation to his wife. So on his way home from work he picked up a dozen long-stem roses and a box of chocolates. He was eager to see how excited his wife would be at this examp