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 'dreams'. Click here to preview today's "Sunday Sermon." An elderly man had horrible nightmares, the same event happening over and over in his dreams. He would dream that an enormous green dragon was chasing him, and he would become frantic. Then, just about the time the dragon was catching up to him, he would awaken in a cold sweat. One night, he did not awaken in time and the dragon caught him. There he was in the clutches of this dragon, steam jetting from its nostrils (just like in a horror movie). The old man was in sheer panic. So he looked up at the dragon and screamed, "What are you going to do with me?" The dragon replied, "I don't know, old man. It's your dream!" --Costa, T., "Life! You Wanna Make Something Of It?" "In the days to come--it is the Lord who speaks--I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind. Their sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men shall dream dreams." (Acts 2:17). 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 'family, birth and twins'. Some of you may have noticed a statistic a few years back which indicated that more twins are being born. When a teacher mentioned this to her third-grade class, one of the pupils said, "I guess more twins are being born because little children are afraid to come into this world alone." 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 subjects of 'sharing, good news, rejection and troubles'. "New Yorker" magazine ran a cartoon in which a bank loan officer is seated at his desk with his hands folded and a pompous look on his face. Walking away from the loan officer's desk, with his head down and a sad look on his face, is a man whose loan application has just been rejected. In the caption, the loan officer says to the rejected and dejected man, "Well, thanks anyway for sharing your financial plight with us." Most of us have no problem sharing our troubles. Whether it's a financial crunch or a rejection of some kind, we're usually ready and willing to spread the bad news. But what the New Testament writers are telling us is that whatever is happening in our lives--good or bad, by our standards--our calling is to be ready and willing always to spread the Good News. Our calling is to share the Good News of the God who loves us and will never reject 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.