Sermon Illustrations

"Perhaps the best caricature of the power of resentment was penned by the author Charles Dickens in his novel Great Expectations. There we meet the immortal character Miss Havisham, jilted at the altar many years before. Long ago, she was dressing for her wedding, waiting for the hour

"In April 1988 the evening news reported on a photographer who was a skydiver. He had jumped from a plane along with numerous other skydivers and filmed the group as they fell and opened their parachutes. On the film shown on the telecast, as the final skydiver opened his chute, the p

During the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, sentenced a soldier to be shot for his crimes. The execution was to take place at the ringing of the evening curfew bell. However, the bell did not sound. The soldier's fiancé had climbed into the belfry and clung to

Warren Wiersbe writes that "Years ago a traveling entertainer billed himself as 'The Human Fly.' He would climb up the sides of buildings or monuments without the aid of ropes or the protection of nets. Usually the whole neighborhood would turn out to watch him. During one

David Powlison comments, "In Western culture, many theories of anger treat it as an emotional fluid that builds up pressure and must be released. This 'hydraulic' theory of anger contributes to the pop wisdom that anger, 'just is, and is neither good or bad.' Wh

On March 28th of 2004, "Shannon Kramer's plans to fire a rocket toward his girlfriend went awry when the firework ricocheted inside his car and dived between his legs, bursting in a display that burned hair and skin from his feet to his groin, police said. Kramer, 35, told The Florid

One of the greatest films ever made was Cecil B. DeMille’s Ben Hur, based on the novel by Lew Wallace. The main character, Judah Ben Hur, played by Charlton Heston, is a Jewish prince who is falsely ... Continue Reading...

Belsky cites such studies as a 1982 one in which preschool personnel observed that children who had been in group day care since infancy seemed more anxious, aggressive and hyperactive. Another study was conducted in 1984. It looked at a group of 107 toddlers, some of whom had been in day care more than 20 hours...

Bishop Hall wrote: It is not the arithmetic of our prayers - how many they are. Nor the rhetoric of our prayers - how eloquent they are. Nor the geometry of our prayers - how long they are. Nor the music of our prayers-how sweet they are. Nor the logic of our prayers - how argumentative the

Charles Darrow was the inventor of the famous game, "Monopoly." When he first pitched the idea to Parker Brothers, they rejected it. They even gave him fifty-two reasons why the game would not sell. Darrow produced his own homemade version and convinced a local department store