1 Corinthians 12 Introduction A friend asked Mrs. Smith, “What position does your son play on the football team?” “I’m not sure,” replied Mrs. Smith, “but I think he’s one of the drawbacks.” In the Body, there is Unity of Membership, vv. 12-14. A. The Body has One Head, Jesus Christ. B. There is power…
Author: Alan Holden
“Catty-Whompus!”
Ephesians 5:23-30 Introduction Grady Stanford said disgustingly, “Things down at the church are Catty-Whompus!” Etymology of Catty-Whompus: Catty, cats rarely walk straight; they walk in a cock-eyed manner. Whompus describes the result of whomping something hard, being lop-sided. What Mr. Stanford meant is: things at church are cock-eyed, not right, because the devil has whooped…
God’s Church Gifts
Romans 12:1-8 Introduction In the Detroit News, there was a humorous little story about an aged mother that illustrates how useless gifts are unless they are used. She had been raised in poverty, and the family had very little money as her children were growing up. As a result, she never had modern conveniences and…
Substance and Sexual Abuse
Galatians 5:13-26 Thesis: Christians live to magnify Christ, not to gratify sinful desires. Christians magnify Christ by crucifying sinful desires, vv. 24, 19-21. A. We must crucify sexually immoral desires. B. We must crucify idolatrous desires. C. We must crucify abusive desires. D. We must crucify intemperate desires. Those who gratify these sinful desires prove…
Evangelism
Spreading the Word The story is told of a small dog which had been struck by a car and was lying by the side of the road. A doctor, driving by, noticed that the dog was still alive, stopped his car, picked up the dog, and took him home with him. There he discovered that…
Excuses
The Story of Noah Retold And the Lord said unto Noah, “Where is the ark which I commanded thee to build?” And Noah said unto the Lord: “Verily, I have had three carpenters off ill. The gopherwood supplier hath let me down—yea, even though the gopherwood hath been on order for nigh upon twelve months….
Experience
Each Learns Anew Each generation has to find out for itself that the stove is hot. The Fine Print The difference between education and experience: Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it. Experience Only Once If at first you don’t succeed, so much…
Failure
How You Respond Failure doesn’t consist in stumbling and falling. The failure is in staying there on the floor. Success is in finding something while you’re down there to pick up with you. After his butcher shop in Brooklyn was robbed four times in one month, William Levine bought a bulletproof vest in 1980. Other…
Faith
Faith in the Worst of Times Sweeping across Germany at the end of World War II, Allied forces searched farms and houses looking for snipers. At one abandoned house, almost a heap of rubble, searchers with flashlights found their way to the basement. There on the crumbling wall, a victim of the Holocaust had scratched…
Family
Genetic Poverty Poverty is hereditary. You can get it from your children (also true of insanity). Genetic Miracle One of the great mysteries of life is how the idiot that your daughter married can be the father of the smartest grandchildren in the whole wide world. Ask Me Don’t be annoyed when your children ask…