Sermon Illustrations

I heard a great story about this fancy club that wouldn't allow golfers in, even if their families came over on the Mayflower. The families had to be descended from the guy who owned the ship. Then some members invited a business acquaintance out to play golf with them. "I'm Jewish," the man said. "They won't let me play...

A small boy dialed "0" and asked the operator to call a number for him. He didn't speak clearly, so she couldn't understand him. After repeating it four times, he blurted out, "You operators are dumb," and slammed down the receiver. Hearing this, his mother was...

Here is what Larry King said of the most recent scandal to rock the evangelical world: How sincere is Rev. Swaggart? Thoughts on the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, who this writer knows pretty well: I would...

Dr. John MacArthur has noted that some Christians are like the Arctic River, frozen over at the mouth - they just don't say anything.

On one occasion F.B. Meyer visited D.L. Moody in Northfield, Massachusetts. Moody, showing Meyer a team of oxen, said that whenever one of those oxen was being yoked in, the other, which might be on the far side of the farmyard, would come trotting up and stand beside the other one until it was yoked in also. Meyer ...

"May it be Thy will that the Temple be speedily rebuilt in our days" That plea to God, recited three times a day in Jewish prayers, expresses a yearning that makes Jerusalem's Temple Mount potentially the most volatile 35 acres on earth. Two Talmudic schools located near the...

When change is successful we look back at it and call it growth!

Reflections from Candlestick Park: Jonathan Petersen, Director of Media Relations for Zondervan Publishing, was in town launching a book project with San Francisco pitcher Dave Dravecky when the quake hit. Petersen said that in a span of five seconds a flood of questions poured into his mind as he looked up at the massive...

The Procrastinator's Poem: I've gone for a drink and sharpened my pencils, Searched through my desk for forgotten utensils. I reset my watch, I adjusted my chair...

Oliver Wendell Holmes was a man of fairly small stature. Holmes attended a meeting where he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes. "I feel like...