Sermon illustrations: Work

Don’t Try to Get out of Work

William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name “O. Henry,” became one of the most popular...

The Necessity of Preparation

In May 2013, thirteen-year-old Arvind Mahankali correctly spelled the word “knaidel” (a German-...

Get Up and Try Again

Though he would later be acclaimed as one of the greatest inventors of history, Thomas Edison’s...

The Fastest Man Alive

It took less than ten seconds for Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt to cover the one hundred meter...

Wasted Years

Someone once observed that a wasted life is really nothing more than a collection of wasted days....

Responding to the Wind

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the...

Too Weak to Clean up After Himself

A mother walked into her teenage son’s makeshift weight room and watched him work out on the bench...

A Mother’s Hands

She said her hands were ugly, and she tried to hide them, too. But in God’s sight ‘twas different,...

Success Requires Sacrifice

Kreisler, the famous violinist, said, “Narrow is the road that leads to the life of a violinist....

Sincerely Apathetic

The nice thing about apathy is you don’t have to exert yourself to show you’re sincere about it....

Too Busy

Too busy to read the Bible, too busy to wait and pray; Too busy to speak out kindly, to someone...

Searching for a Vessel

The Master was searching for a vessel to use; On the shelf there were many—which one would He...

Salvation Takes Place in an Instant

“Professor Drummond once described a man going into one of our after-meetings and saying he wanted...

The Harvest Comes with Time

The Puritan John Brown wrote, “Many Christians are like children; they would sow and reap the same...

God Rewards His Servants

Billy Bray was a Cornish miner who accepted Jesus Christ as his Saviour in 1823 at the age of 29....

Motivation to Do More

A farm boy got a white football for Christmas. He played with it awhile and accidentally kicked it...

Stopping Just Short of the Goal

There is a marker on a rock near the top of Mount Washington, marking the spot where a woman...

Results Speak for Themselves

Colonel George Washington Goethals, the man responsible for the completion of the Panama Canal, had...

Efforts of Man and Spiritual Fruit

A number of years ago, the Associated Press released a study done by an agricultural school in Iowa...

Charles Spurgeon on Joy

“There is a marvelous medicinal power in joy. Most medicines are distasteful; but this, which is...

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