A highly-placed corporate manager announced, tongue-in-cheek, the establishment of an annual “Better Management Award.” The first award would be made, posthumously, to Christopher Columbus, he said. “We are honoring old […]
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From time-to-time God reveals himself in the lives of certain people in a very dramatic way — a way that often changes the course of history. The conversion of Paul
“I assure you, many a prophet and many a saint longed to see what you see, but did not see it, to hear what you hear but did not hear
An Army sergeant had recently been transferred across the country to a new base. The family had moved with him, and the military chaplain on the base asked the sergeant’s
“So long as he is in this world, man is like a sick person lying upon a bed more or less uncomfortable, who sees around him other beds nicely made,
When we are part of a large crowd attending an outdoor happening of some kind, it is gratifying to discover that the event has been well-planned. We are pleased to
Theodore Roethke, the American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, has written a poem called “The Sloth.” It portrays one of those shaggy, slow-moving, primitive mammals which seems
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James Thurber, the well-known American humorist, wrote a number of “beast” fables. In them he pokes fun at our shortcomings by having his animal characters act as humans do. One
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The greatest moment of your life occurs when, from the innermost depth of your being you say, in answer to Jesus’ question in today’s Gospel Lesson, “You are the Messiah,
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A little boy was about to visit the dentist for the first time. He wasn’t too sure he was going to like this adventure. For several days before “D-Day,” his
Being a follower of Christ in isolation is a contradiction. Together, we pray to the Father in Jesus’ Name. Together, we worship the Father in Jesus’ Name. And, together in
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According to legend, there once were two very perplexing mysteries over which the wisest men in the land had scratched their heads and stroked their beards in vain for many
A young clergyman was asked to preach on “Why I believe in God.” He thought it would be an easy sermon to prepare. After all, he could think of a
“Dear Abby,” wrote a woman named Rose, “I am forty-four and would like to meet a man my age with no bad habits.” To which Abby replied, “Dear Rose, so
There is an old English fable that goes something like this: “Once upon a time there lived on the banks of the River Dee a miller, who was the happiest
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A little book compiled by Mary W. Lightfoot entitled “The Heart of a Father” contains the following contribution by James G. Gilken: You say I exaggerate the splendors of a
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Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where there were no gilded Christmas trees and no tinsel Christmas trees … and no powderblue Christmas
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Somehow, the words “Shut up!” made an early entry into the vocabulary of a little girl named Janice. She played no favorites: it was “Shut up!” to her older brother,
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We’re in the Season of Advent and the message is: “Repent and sin no more.” Each year at this time, a popular preacher of the twenties and thirties trotted out
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“We’ll leave the light on for you” says comedian Tom Bodett at the end of his radio commercials for “Motel 6.” Mr. Bodett has written a book in which he
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