Sermon Illustrations

The boss and his wife were coming over for dinner, and little Mary was helping by setting the table. She finished just as the company arrived, and as the guests came in and everyone sat down, Mother noticed something was missing.

A busload of politicians were driving down a country road when suddenly the bus ran off the road and crashed into a tree in an old farmer's field.

Not too long ago a large seminar was held for ministers in training.

Too much comfort is dangerous. Literally.

The husband was an older student, which didn't leave much money for our family of seven. One day while attending a friend's wedding, the 4-year-old daughter was sitting next to the mom when the pastor asked, "Do you take this man for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health?"

"It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, then falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is not love and it is not friendship if we fail to declare the whole counsel of God. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie."

A couple had an argument, and now they were driving down a country road, not saying a word. As they passed a barnyard of mules, the wife sarcastically asked, "Relatives of yours?"

Morris, the loudmouth mechanic, was removing the cylinder heads from the motor of a car when he spotted a famous heart surgeon who was standing off to the side, waiting for the service manager to come take a look at his Mercedes.

One night at the dinner table, the wife commented, "When we were first married, you took the small piece of steak and gave me the larger. Now you take the large one and leave me the smaller. You don't love me any more?"

One day, a lady criticized D.L. Moody for his methods of evangelism in attempting to win people to the Lord. Moody's reply was, "I agree with you. I don't like the way I do it either. Tell me, how do you do it?"