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 who, but someone was bidding…
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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 a country boy, and I…
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 trembling hand asked, "And how…
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 soft and bright, Out of…
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 you want to smile, but…
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 sweetest in the gale is…
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 the cloud, or in it,…
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 was taken prisoner. The British,…
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 and Victorious Living an English…
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 there would be many a…
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 a grocery cart, which cut…
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 communist commentator said that "thousands"…
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 Minneapolis had a "gay rights"…
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 winged skelter of robins is…
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 goers and "that's the way…
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" and that it was a…
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 all births the most impressive.…
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 are (a) wrong, (b) insensitive,…
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 but in submission and slavery!…
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 notebook would imply. Jeremiah crys…
