Yes! Or No!
There is a “Peanuts” comic strip in which Little Linus, looking very forlorn, asks Lucy, “Why are you always so anxious to criticize me?” Lucy, looking very self-righteous, replies, “I […]
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We Need Each Other!
A Sunday School teacher was lecturing her third-grade class on the subject of miracles. For her text she had chosen a passage from the sixth chapter of John’s Gospel: ”
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Huggable And Buggable You
In a “Peanuts” comic strip, little Lucy is trying to better understand the little dog “Snoopy.” She looks at him with wondering eyes and says, “There are times when you
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Worth The Risk!
A Church newsletter included this essay by an eight-year-old boy. His third grade Sunday School teacher had asked her students to write about what “God’s jobs” are … One of
The Greatest Of Teachers
There is a Peanuts cartoon in which Little Lucy asks, “You know what your trouble is Charlie Brown?” Then she answers her own question: “The whole trouble with you is
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Who Are The Citizens?
A model morning prayer appeared in the Parish Bulletin of a Church in Missouri: Dear God: So far today I’ve done all right. I haven’t gossiped. I haven’t lost my
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What Makes The World Go ’round?
An extremely wealthy man, reflecting on his business career and the life it brought him, said, “If you go into the business world with the idea of satisfying all your
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What’s In It For Me?
It has been said that “millions of Christians live in a sentimental haze of vague piety, demanding little except lip service to a few harmless platitudes. It is much safer,
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It Makes Complete Sense!
In the first panel of a particularly insightful “Peanuts” cartoon, Little Lucy, her fist clenched, is running after Charlie Brown. “I’ll get you Charlie Brown! I’ll get you!” she says.
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Practice! Practice! Practice!
When the poet, Maya Angelou, appeared on the “Today Show” a few years ago, she was asked about her lifetime goals. She answered, “I want to become a Christian.” This
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Straight From The Heart!
An elderly man bought a lottery ticket and gave it to his wife for safe-keeping. When the winning numbers were announced, she was the first to know that he had
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The Best Is Yet To Come
One Sunday morning a little boy was “acting up” in Church. The parents did their best to maintain some sense of order in the pew, but they were losing the
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Inferiority Complex?
A troubled man paid a visit to a therapist. “What can I do for you,” asked the doctor, “what’s your problem?” The patient answered, “I think I’m suffering from an
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Who’s Dying?
The legendary American lawyer, orator and politician, Daniel Webster, was visiting John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States. Webster asked the eighty-year-old Adams how he was feeling. The
Only One Way To Turn
“I dream of faraway places,” wrote a man who felt like “getting away from it all” … I dream of faraway places, And often I take myself yon, Like the
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Try It, You’ll Like It!
The mother of a fifteen-year-old girl was anxious about her daughter’s recently acquired independent attitude. Among other things, she had been spending most of her allowance on perfume, contrary to
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Find Your Way!
Christmas is coming! Many decades ago, Mark Twain wrote the following Christmas Holiday message in a New York City daily newspaper1 … It is my heart-warm and world-embracing Christmas hope
Then You Can Keep Christmas
It has been said, and rightly so … If the Christ is born in Bethlehem a million times, and trudges the dusty roads of Palestine, preaching for a million years,
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Go In Peace!
A mother, son and daughter were having dinner at home. The father was away on a business trip. Little Johnny, age eleven, was allowed to sit in his father’s place.
Be It Resolved
A woman who was experiencing a variety of emotional problems went to see a psychiatrist about her troubles: her inability to “find herself”; her inability to resolve the question of
