Family Values
Whether you’re at teen-age, middle-age, or retirement age, how foolish for you to imagine, even for a single day, that you know everything! How foolish you are to imagine that […]
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Come Just As You Are
How many of you have had the frustrating experience of depositing a coin in a public telephone slot and losing it. Author Norman Cousins, a true believer in the healing
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What Price Onions And Garlic?
“The Dreamer” is an ancient story about an ambitious man (“The Dreamer”) who was always on the alert to take advantage of a situation to his own profit… One day,
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The Me-book
An elderly miser who had vast real estate holdings suddenly became extremely ill. His temperature quickly soared to 105, and his frightened wife sent for the nearest doctor. After examining
Not What We Used To Be
Many years ago, a book called “The Big Fisherman,” by Lloyd C. Douglas, made the best-seller lists. The book contains a scene in which several of the Apostles are wondering
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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
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
