Sermon Illustrations

Sometimes people just don't use their common sense. A man once recounted this incident at an airport. He said "I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, 'Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?' To which I replied, 'If it was witho

In World War I, in a British section of the Western Front, just a few miles back from the front lines, was a hut named Talbot House. It was a meeting place for men going up to the trenches and men coming back. In the hut loft Communion was served - truly an upper room and literally a last s

Communicating with clarity is a challenging endeavor. Consider these supposedly true citations and responses between airline pilots and mechanics: P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement. M: Almost replaced left inside main tire. P: Something loose in cockpit. M: Something t

A six-year-old girl and her four-year-old brother were sitting together in church. The little boy laughed, sang and talked out loud. Finally, the little girl had had enough. "You're not supposed to talk out loud in church." "Why? Who's going to stop me?" the little boy asked. His sister poin

Many people fear getting older, but the longer you live the more you are in a position to develop wisdom. Here are some observations and bits of advice concerning getting older: 1) Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. 2) Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can g

In his book, A Better Way to Live, Og Mandino reported that Andrew Carnegie once said that there are two types of people who fail to achieve much in life. The first is the person who won't do what he or she is told to do, and the second is the person who does no more that what he or she

Here are some words of wisdom making the rounds: 1. Keep your word soft and tender, because tomorrow you may have to eat them. 2. Opportunities are never lost; someone else will take the ones you miss. 3. Love, not time, heals all wounds 4. To ignore the facts does not change the facts.

From time to time we read stories that prove to us that money doesn't buy happiness. Recently, newspapers carried the story of Mack Metcalf and Virginia Metcalf Merida who won 65.4 million dollars in the lottery. They quit their jobs and bought large homes, but five years later they w

Recently newspapers, radio and TV carried the tragic, but comic, story of a man who was determined to finally get rid of a troublesome mouse. The man threw the stunned mouse on a pile of leaves he was burning. The mouse caught fire and ran back into the house. Lucian Mares watched helplessl

A tragic story was carried by the media about a Shelton, Washington woman who was found smothered under a pile of clutter-clutter of her own making. Sixty-two year old Marie Rose suffered from obsessive-compulsive hoarding. Things were so cluttered that searchers heads touched the ceiling an