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 'healing'. Click here to preview today's "Sunday Sermon." Dr. Karl Menninger, the famous psychiatrist, once gave a lecture on mental health and was answering questions from the audience. "What would you advise a person to do," asked one man, "if that person felt a nervous breakdown coming on?" Most people expected him to reply: "Consult a psychiatrist." To their astonishment, he replied: "Lock up your house, go across the railway tracks, find someone in need and do something to help that person." 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 subjects of 'justice, heaven, prayer and preaching'. The story is told of a clergyman and an ordinary working man: a bus-driver. They arrived together at the gates of heaven. An angel gave the clergyman a plain cotton gown, a wooden halo and modest living quarters containing only the bare necessities of eternal life. To the bus-driver, the angel presented a complete wardrobe of the finest materials, a golden halo and lavish living-quarters containing every imaginable luxury and convenience. When he saw this, the clergyman protested: "Why does he get so much and I so little?" The angel checked the records and said, "It seems that when you were preaching, your congregation slept ; when he was driving, his passengers prayed." 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 'vocabulary and dreaming'. The professor in a college English class was trying to impress upon his students the value of a rich vocabulary. He said to them, "If you will just take a new word and use it ten times it will be yours forever." Whereupon, a young woman in the class looked dreamily out the window and started saying, "George, George, George, George... " 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.