What The World Needs Now
You can tell with certainty that men, not women, wrote most of the early mythology concerning the creation of the world and the beginning of mankind. You can tell it […]
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From Death To Life
There is a scene in Ingmar Bergman’s “White Light” in which the Church sexton, a horribly crippled man, tells his pastor that he doesn’t think the physical pain of Jesus’
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Our Father
There once was a little girl who dreamed of becoming a great writer. Whenever she visited her grandmother she brought along her latest composition, and the grandmother was always happy
The Pieces Don’t Fit
In one of his plays, Tennessee Williams tells about a mentally ill woman who is sitting at a card table set up in her garden, working a jig-saw puzzle. She
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Those Others
Nothing stops pain like a touch of ‘Compassion.’ Sunburn misery? In ten seconds instant ‘Compassion’ stops the agony of sunburn. Lasts up to six hours. Scrapes and Bruises? Whenever the
But Not Very Much
A little boy was looking forward with great anticipation to the annual birthday gift from his favorite aunt. She always had a way of picking out a toy which brought
Don’t Rain On My Parade
“Life’s candy and the sun’s a ball of butter/Don’t bring around a cloud/to rain on my parade.” So sang Barbra Streisand on her hit recording of several years ago: “Don’t
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Coming Up Dry
Once, at a senior-class picnic, one of the girls accidentally dropped her graduation ring into the lake. Immediately, several of her male classmates volunteered to go diving for it. She
The Source Of Our Hope
A man was plagued with worry over a recurring dream. He explained his problem to a psychiatrist: “Every night I dream that I am standing before a huge door, trying
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Serve Time In The Penitentiary
One way to prepare properly for the coming of Christ in this Advent Season is to serve time in the penitentiary. I use the word “penitentiary” in its original sense,
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Repent!
In the Gospels, we find over-and-over again the Good News of the kind of full life God wants to give us. Because He loves us so much, He has come
A Strawberry For You
One Sunday morning, a preacher went into the pulpit and began to read an Old Testament passage from an Old Bible that had been falling apart and was recently repaired.
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Keeping Christmas
The same man who wrote the Gospel of John also wrote a letter. In the letter he summarizes in a single phrase the basic principal of the whole Biblical Message:
It’s Unconditional
A pastor tells of a husband and wife who came to him for marriage counseling: The woman began by saying, “My husband is a neatnik. Everything’s got to be spic
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Don’t Forget The Message
A few hours before setting out to sea, the captain and the first mate of a large commercial ocean liner had a bitter argument. During the heated conversation, the captain
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The Good Sweet Taste
The “Star Kist” tuna fish company has been running a TV commercial for eighteen years featuring “Charlie,” the deep-sea tuna. Charlie is a delightful, neurotic tuna. He is very unsure
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An Everyday Miracle
A worried woman took her anxieties to a palm-reading fortune teller. “Everything is going wrong,” she complained. “My husband is being unfaithful to me. My daughter ran away with a
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The Man Of Compassion
A woman and man who had been married for twenty-five years were looking through the family photo album. As the pictures took them back through the years, the wife began
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A New Tomorrow
There will be a new tomorrow There will be a brighter day There will be a new tomorrow Love will find a way These lines are from a song the
Let’s Get Practical
From the very beginning, there have been Christians who understood the Gospel Message to mean that if you have faith it doesn’t really matter what you do with your life.
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