He Cannot Be Bought
The story is told of a man who dreamed that he saw Our Lord tied to a whipping post while a soldier scourged Him unmercifully. He saw the whip in […]
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Eternity Is In The Air
Last year, a woman contributed the following real-life anecdote to the New York Times weekly “Metropolitan Diary” column: Dear Diary: It was a day when the threat of rain hung
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Light Up The World
Due to the vast television coverage of last year’s campaigns for the U.S. Presidency, even the very young became familiar with the images and the rhetoric of the leading candidates.
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Infinitely Precious
“Do you ever have dreams?” asked the psychiatrist. “Yes,” the patient replied, “I had one last evening. I dreamed I was watching a terribly boring play. And when I awakened,
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He’s Already There
Several years ago, the newspapers ran a story about a desperate prisoner in Australia who successfully carried out his plan to escape from the county jail. He managed to do
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Absolutely Right!
Several years ago, a “Special Assistant” to the United States Secretary of the Treasury was addressing a highly sophisticated audience of economists on an extremely dry subject. Halfway through the
Man, That’s Living!
In a first-grade religion class, the teacher had spent the entire session teaching the youngsters The Lord’s Prayer. After class, little Billy went skipping down the hall to where his
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What To Do
A man we shall call “Roger” underwent major surgery after several years of blindness. The operation was a success to the extent that he could now see with the help
The Creative Process
While it is true that our Old Testament religious forebearers had a keen awareness of the importance of past and future, nevertheless they were very earthy persons, very present persons,
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No Impostors!
In a “Peanuts” comic strip, little Linus listens attentively as his little sister, Lucy, boasts about her religious zeal and her potential as an evangelist. She says to Linus, I
Not Another Word!
The story is told of a chance meeting between two men who had been college classmates. They went to a nearby sidewalk cafe where they drank tea together and talked
Today Is Judgment Day
Comedian Allen Rossi tells the story of a dream he had: There I was, sitting at a table for two in an elegant restaurant. I looked across the table and
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Lord, You Take The Wheel
There is an old proverb that goes something like this: Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more;
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We’re In This Together
Grandpa’s eyes sparkled as he turned the pages of his new seed catalog. When he had seen it all, he turned to his grandson, a high school senior, and said,
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Take The Braces Off
Here is a question for all the food experts among us: What edible product contains the following ingredients?… Carob bean gum, guar gum, corn syrup, soybean and cottonseed oils, cultured
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Get Off Your High Horse
“Sailbad the Sinner” is the name of an old sailboat owned by Baptist Minister, Jess Moody. One day, Moody and his son boarded the little sloop at a Florida Everglades
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What’s Best For The Children?
The Apostle Paul has summarized our final destiny in the one word: “heirs.” “The fact that you are a son makes you an heir” he said (Gal. 4:7). Because we
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Getting Down To Basics
A New York City pastor recalls what happened one fateful Sunday morning as the choir took its customary walk down the Church’s center aisle toward their benches in the sanctuary:
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Once-and-for-all
During the terrible winter at Valley Forge, a government official arrived on the scene to obtain a firsthand report on the actual field situation from General George Washington himself. After
Jesus Christ Is The Message
A generation ago, a man named Marshall McLuhan emerged as the wise man of the Communication Era. His name was on the lips of all the intelligentsia. Debating McLuhan’s writings
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