Sermon Illustrations

Holiness

My brothers and I collected Baseball cards as kids and we would play with them. How do you "play" with baseball cards? We would sort through them, divide them into teams, build our own allstar team, and sort out the duplicates for trading in school the next day. My brother was a BIG collector and, being younger, would tell me I could play with them but not these "special" cards that he had. One day I decided to surprize my older brother by putting all his "special" cards into a three ring binder for him. So I carefully cut out the heads of the players from teh card and glued them to lined paper with holes punched in the sides and presented the binder to my brother as a gift.

I still can see his face as I showed him what I had done with his "special" or HOLY items. I particularly thought the Hank Aaron rookie card looked good glued to the cheap lined paper. I think it is going on ebay right now for over $100,000.