MEETING ADVERSITY A man wanted a parrot for his grandson, so looked around for one. Finally he came across one at an auction and bid on it. He couldn’t see […]
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ROOTED TOGETHER While on a tour of California’s giant sequoias, the guide pointed out that the sequoia tree has roots just barely below the surface. I exclaimed, “That’s impossible! I’m
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INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR AGE In his extreme old age John Quincy Adams was slowly and feebly walking down a street in Boston. An old friend accosted him and shaking his
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HE LEADETH ME In “green pastures”? Not always; sometimes He Who knoweth best, in kindness leadeth me In weary ways, where heavy shadows be. Out of the sunshine, warm and
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DON’T QUIT When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low and the debts are high And
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HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And
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OPPORTUNITY This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream: — The world is charged with the grandeur of There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath
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CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING In the war of 1812, the American general, William Winder, in spite of having a four-to-one troup superiority over the British, led his army to defeat and
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PREPARE FOR THE WORST While pastoring in Great Britain, I had the privilege of attending a “Grace” Ministries House Party (convention). In a testimonial response regarding the theme of Repentance
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TOUGH DAYS Former Attorney-General Edwin Meese, who served his rocky stint in the Reagan administration recalled the advice of his predecessor, William French Smith. The outgoing attorney-general warned Meese that
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THE MINISTRY OF LEECHES An October ’87 edition of “Weekly Reader” magazine published an interesting article of how LEECHES actually saved a young boy’s finger! Donnell McLucas accidentally turned over
THE DANGERS OF BAPTISM On the Moscow radio, March 1963, Christian baptism was castigated as a “health menace” and “a senseless and dangerous rite.” In the weekly pro-atheist broadcast, the
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GAY AGGRESSION The Big Brothers interviewer in Minneapolis was confronted with a new situation: An applicant had just admitted to him that he was a homosexual. The interviewer knew that
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SUMMER STORM At four in the afternoon, the first Perceptions of its darkening: the light In the alley is hoodwinked by mechanical Means into turning on its ringed glow; The
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MOVIES Film critic Michael Medved, co-host of PBS’s Sneak Previews, likens his job to that of a “sewer inspector.” Hollywood writers and producers are “hugely out of touch” with church
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THE COURAGE OF HUBERT HUMPHREY I first met Hubert Humphrey in 1971. I received a letter from him saying that he and his wife, Muriel, watched the “Hour of Power”
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LESSONS FROM THE ZOO God has designed thousands of ways for the animal kingdom to come into existence, but in my estimation the birth of the baby giraffe is of
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DU PONT’S LAWS RELATING TO PASTORAL SKIN If you’re concerned about being criticized, you’re in the wrong job. Whatever you do, somebody out there will be telling you that you
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THE INEVITABLE WAR It was in Virginia, in the House of Burgesses, that the fiery country lawyer Patrick Henry spoke of the coming fight for independence: There is no retreat
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WHEN THINGS DON’T SEEM TO WORK Jeremiah teaches that life isn’t all beer and skittles. There are also the tough times when things don’t flow as neatly as a seminar
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