The Healing Life
Healing is an important subject for us, not only because we want to be healthy, but because God has called us to be instruments of healing to others. A health-care […]
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Without A Woman In It
They talk about a woman’s sphere. As though it had a limit; There’s not a place in earth or heaven, There’s not a task to mankind given, There’s not a
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No Hidden Meanings
Three professionals, an engineer, a psychologist and a theologian, were together on a hunting trip in the Canadian Rockies. They came upon an isolated cabin. Seeking shelter and rest, they
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No Split Decisions!
One of childhood’s favorite authors, the late Theodor S. Geisel (best known as “Dr. Seuss”), wrote a poem about the difficulty, but necessity, of making decisions. It reads, in part…
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Are You A Power?
The opening sentences of a book called “Advice From a Failure,”1 brings the reader face-to-face with certain of life’s realities: It is not an easy world to live in. It
Live As Though God Exists
One September morning, a father was driving his teenage son back to college. They arrived at a place where they had to detour from the main highway because of a
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Do You Know What Hurts Me?
Henry Van Dyke wrote a fictional account of a “fourth” Wise Man’s journey to Bethlehem to visit the newborn King. Actually, the Gospel doesn’t tell us how many Wise Men
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The Cost Of Life
“The Stranger,” by Albert Camus, is a powerful novel which deals with those fundamental life-and-death questions that concern us all because we are human: What does God mean to us
Zing Go The Strings!
In a nineteenth century painting entitled “Hope,”1 the artist portrays a woman with bandaged eyes. She is unable to see ahead of herself. In her hands is a harp with
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He Found Me!
At the conclusion of the first lecture in a college philosophy course, the professor asked for questions. “What is the difference between learning and wisdom,” a student asked. “Learning,” said
The Best Possible Glimpse
I paid a dime for a package of seeds. The clerk tossed them down with a flip. “We have them assorted to every man’s needs,” he said, with a smile
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Hook-line-and-sinker!
Novelist Katherine Ann Porter wrote a little true story of the time she helped her five-year-old niece shop for a Christmas present for her mother . . . We wandered
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The Profound Truth
A popular author of inspirational books tells of his first season as a member of his high school varsity football team. Being a substitute, he spent a good deal of
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Because Of Your Good Looks
There is a magazine cartoon in which two persons who appear to be husband and wife are sitting on their living room sofa staring ahead at the TV screen. The
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Give, Give, Give!
In a second grade religion class, a little girl wrote a letter to God in which she asked… ARE YOU RICH OR JUST FAMOUS? Perhaps that little girl’s question was
The Miracle Of You
Dr. Deepak Chopra, regarded by many as one of the most important healers of our time, has written a best-selling book on longevity called “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind.” In order
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Stop Trying So Hard!
What’s past is over and done with. We can’t recover our lost youth or our lost opportunities or our lost loves. But with each new day we can enhance and
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Sounds A Little Absurd?
The late Fritz Kreisler, the great violinist, was walking down the street one day with a friend and the two stopped to look in the window of a shop. A
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Life As It Should Be
Dealing with the issue of how we can best live — what we should do with our priceless human existence — is more than just an intellectual exercise. It is
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Is He Worth The Risk?
Some of you may be more familiar with the “Beatitudes” in the Gospel of Matthew than those in Luke which we have read. Somehow, Matthew’s list of eight Beatitudes has
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