Sermon Illustrations

I'm sure we all continue to miss Charles Schulz and the wonderful messages he taught through his characters in Peanuts. There is an old Peanuts strip that shows Charlie Brown and Schroeder walking and in a deep discussion. Schroeder asks, "Is Snoopy a hunting dog?" "I guess he...

Forgiveness

According to the People's Almanac, there was a shower of several thousand rubles that fell in the Gorki region of Russia in 1940. No one has ever been able to completely explain the phenomena. One possible explanation is that a landslide uncovered the treasure and a tornado picked it up and...

For the last 15 years a white haired businessman has been using the name "Jesus Christ." He has a passport, driver's license and social security card with Jesus' name on it. According to the Associated Press, he is having trouble in West Virginia as he prepares for a move there. They won't...

A man was coming out of church and stopped to greet the minister. The minister grabbed the hand of the man and pulled the man aside. The preacher said to him, "You need to join the Army of the Lord!" The man replied, "I'm already in the Army of the Lord, Pastor." The puzzled minister...

Consider some of these pearls of wisdom that have been passed on to us by way of the Internet. 1. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film. 2. He who laughs last, thinks slowest. 3. I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. 4. Seen it all, done it all, can't...

The AP carried a very sad Spring break story. One person died and several others got sick after a tequila-drinking competition in Santo Domingo. The man who died was the winner of the contest. Ricardo Ivan Garcia drank more than 50 shots of tequila to win the prize worth $330. Was...

The news recently carried the story from Florida of a baby cat born with two faces. It is not certain how long the cat will live, although it had begun taking nourishment which was a good sign. Several experts said they had never seen such an abnormality before. The owners named the cat...

According to a fairly reliable anecdote, W. C. Fields, who had been a life-long agnostic was still concerned as his health deteriorated and death approached. He was concerned about not making it into heaven, if indeed there was one. Thomas Mitchell, a fellow actor discovered Fields...

Recently, USA Today carried an article by Greg Toppo that told of the National Anthem Project. What is the purpose? Teaching people the words and meaning of the Star Spangled Banner. According to creators of the project six out of ten people claim to know the words, but fewer than...