GODLINESS SHINES The spirit of the godly rusts away unless they are well exercised by tribulations.
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Confidence is simply the inner feeling you have before you really understand the problem.
MIRACLE UNDER THE HOOD Often the origins of a story can't be traced. Such is this one which had been told to others and a nationwide TV audience by the late Howard Conatser, founder of…
SUFFERING'S SIGNAL The story is told of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island and in the days that followed, he painstakingly constructed a hut with the few things that he salvaged…
NEED THE HAND RAILS When the magnificent passenger ship the Queen Mary was built, its owners assumed it would be so stable that it would not require hand rails to steady the passengers in rough…
ADVERSITY & TRUTH Adversity is the path of truth. -- Byron
CUCKOO CLOCK ACCOMPLISHMENTS In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare terror murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they…
SEUSS SUCCESS For those who need encouragement, take heart and do not quit too soon. The first children's book by Dr. Seuss was rejected by twenty-three publishers. The twenty-fourth publisher sold six million copies.
BIBLE & ADVERSITY The Word of God and adversity have a synergistic effect as God uses both of them together to bring about growth in our lives that neither the Word nor adversity would accomplish…
DON'T KICK THE ROCK Gregory Elder tells that when he grew up on the Atlantic Coast, he spent long hours building intricate sand castles. He was continually confronted by bullies who would smash his sand…
UNDERSTANDING GOD'S WAYS G. Campbell Morgan, commenting on the death of James and the deliverance of Peter: "Life can never be perfectly understood in the process of living it; we must wait. Just beyond the…
HOW AMERICA HANDLES STRESS 75% turn on the TV. 66% listen to music 61% take a bath or hot shower. 55% of women clean house (vs. 20% of men). 54% of women go shopping (vs.…
WE ALWAYS HELP EACH OTHER In 1953, two men, Sir Edmund Hillary, a beekeeper by trade; and also an explorer from New Zealand and his guide, a man named Norgay, who was from Nepal, were…
MARRIAGE PROBLEMS Dr. Ray Mossholder wrote in his excellent book entitled Marriage Plus, "Ninety percent of the friction in marriage is caused by one of three things: -- wrong timing; -- wrong setting; -- wrong…
WHEN THINGS ARE BAD "When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad…
I CAN SEE! "I can see! I can see!" These were the first words from Jean Phillips after her twenty minute operation on October 24, 1996. She had lived sixty-six years in blindness. She had…
WORK IS NO CURSE Blest work, if ever thou wert a curse of God, what must His blessings be! -- J. B. Selkirk
TRAPD IN AN ESCALATOR This was the worst excuse yet! The man's wife has heard some lame excuses in the past for his failure to return home at a reasonable time, but this was the…
WE ARE NOT TREES If you don't like where you are, change it! You're not a tree. -- Jim Rohn
PROGRESSIVE DEMISE Speaking of our New York, remember, when civilization falls apart, we were way ahead of you. -- David Letterman
