Empty Yourself!
Many years ago a large industrial corporation erected a new headquarters building. They laid a cornerstone which contained various predictions of what the world would be like one hundred years […]
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Are We On Our Way?
It’s so easy sometimes to find ways of avoiding responsibility. But, clever as we may be at covering up and rationalizing our misdeeds, the consequences are merely postponed — never
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Make It Unanimous!
The pastor of a large urban parish once did a TV series called “The Kingdom of God.” Each week on the morning after the show aired he would visit sick
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Death Is Death
A father, whose only daughter was seventeen, was going through a kind of dying. The daughter was preparing to go away to college. Father and daughter had been very close,
Which Door?
Robert Murray M’Cheyne is revered in Scotland as one of that nation’s great Christian Preachers. Although he died at an early age, his name already had become a household word.
Pledge Of Allegiance
The basic teaching of all of Scripture is intended to help each one of us experience wholeness of life as individual persons — to become the unique masterpiece of creation
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Wherever We Turn
On her twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Abigail Van Buren, ran the following letter to her husband in her syndicated “Dear Abby” column: Dear Mort: July 2, 1964. Today is a very
Tell Them It’s Raining!
The “Dear Abby” Columnist, Abigail Van Buren, received the following letter from a frustrated reader: Dear Abby: My husband hates to spend money! I cut my own hair and make
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Be Prepared
For many years Alice had been a top student in all her classes: in elementary school, high school and college. Three years after earning her undergraduate degree, she was still
A Matter Of Choice
The term “Hobson’s Choice” crept into the English language in the late seventeenth century. Thomas Hobson was then a liveryman in Cambridge, England. And, according to his established policy, every
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Yes, Lord!
About twenty years ago, a panel of social scientists met for a week-long discussion of the principal areas of that generation’s life. Later, the content of the symposium was summarized
Even My Money
William Allen White, famed Editor of the “Emporia Gazette,” was a staunch member of the Democratic Party. On one occasion, however, he found himself attending a Republican Party convention as
Feelings
In the Old Testament saga, Israel’s greatest King is David. He was called the “Lion of Judah,” the “Warrior King.” David was a great military leader. He had great expertise
I Accept
“He gave His only Son.” How do we respond to God’s great gift? We celebrate of course, but there is more to it than that. It has been said that
The Way Is Difficult
“Dying is a very solitary thing!” someone has written. In that very insightful statement, we come close to one of the basic teachings of the New Testament-about life, about death,
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Why Starve To Death?
In order to follow Jesus’ counsel and build your house-your life-on solid rock, you must enter into two different kinds of experience. First, there is the once-and-for-all experience of letting
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To Make Us Real
Once upon a time there was a little boy who received a velveteen rabbit for Christmas. The rabbit was fat and bunchy. His coat was spotted brown and white. He
No Loophole
Everything in life that has meaning and value is rooted in God’s Grace. In the New Testament, St. Paul begins all his letters by reminding the people to whom he
Courage My Friend
In a book called “The Cloister and the Hearth,” by Charles Reade, two men are shown back-packing their way across Europe during very dangerous times. One of them constantly tries
Catch Another Butterfly
The stars were there for wishing And the wind was there for kites And the morning sun was there for rise and shine But I wonder … What happened to
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