Sermon Jazzers      from Voicings Publications Each day SearchGodsWord.org and Voicing Publications posts for our users a fresh Sermon Jazzer illustration handpicked for usage with the "Sunday Sermon".   Today's Sermon Jazzer deals with the subject of 'christmas'. Click here to preview today's "Sunday Sermon." The only cards that really count Are that extremely small amount From real friends who keep in touch Just because they love us much. Some ways indeed are very odd By which we hail the birth of God We raise the price of things in shops We give plain boxes fancy tops And stuff which traders cannot sell Thus parcel'd go extremely well We dole out bribes we call a present To those to whom we must be pleasant The time draws near the birth of Christ a present that cannot be priced Given two thousand years ago Yet if God had not given so He still would be a distant stranger And not the Christ-Child in the manger. --Betjeman, J. (Adapted). Voicings Publications, Inc. Copyright, 2001. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form is strictly prohibited.   Each week two new illustrations are posted from the "Handbook of Pulpit Humor: 101 Humorous Sermon Illustrations. Illustration #1 deals with the subject of 'motivation'. A cartoon which appeared in "The New Yorker" magazine shows a group of hogs eagerly assembled for feeding as a farmer is filling their trough to the brim. One pig suspiciously asks the others in the group, "Have you ever wondered why he's being so good to us?" The Handbook of Pulpit Humor: 101 Humorous Sermon Illustrations. From The Editors of Sunday Sermons. Copyright, 1999. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form is strictly prohibited. Illustration #2 deals with the subject of 'work and workaholics'. While most nine-to-fivers wish their working week was a little shorter and their weekends a little longer, there's at least one executive who probably never exclaimed, "Thank God it's Friday!" In fact, a plaque hangs over the desk of this "workaholic" which reads: THANK GOD IT'S MONDAY! The Handbook of Pulpit Humor: 101 Humorous Sermon Illustrations. From The Editors of Sunday Sermons. Copyright, 1999. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form is strictly prohibited.