Adversity | Counseling | Depression | Guidance | Increase | Introspection | Short Shorts | Troubles | Worry
NURSING TROUBLES Troubles are like babies; they only grow by nursing.
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Adversity | Leisure | Love | Perspective | Relativity | Time | Trial
EINSTEIN ON RELATIVITY An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove passes like an hour. That’s
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Adversity | Attitude | Fellowship | Friendships | Obstacles | Perspective | Relationships | Short Shorts | Trial | Trials
MAKING STEPPING STONES Jack Penn writes, “One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.” Don Maddox
Adversity | Comfort | Grace | Life | Sanctification | Thanks | Trial | Trials
TRIALS AND THORNS Sandra felt as low as the heels of her Birkenstocks as she pushed against a November gust and the florist shop door. Her life had been easy,
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Adversity | Appearances | Assumptions | Authority | Blessing | Comfort | Fears | Life | Short Shorts | Trial
WHEN THE GAS MAN RUNS Two gas company servicemen, a senior training supervisor and a young trainee, were out checking meters in a suburban neighborhood. They parked their truck at
Adversity | Blessing | Comfort | Life | Pain | Short Shorts | Trial | Trials
FROM SOUR TO SWEET Whoever has bitten a sour apple will enjoy a sweet one all the more. From a German proverb
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Adversity | Christ | Death | Easter | Faith | Loss | Resurrection | Story | Success | Survival | Tragedy | Trial | Trials | Victory
HOPE THROUGH THE STORM What does it mean to walk by faith and not by sight? We can see how it is translated into everyday life. It can be seen
Adversity | Appearances | Children | Discipleship | Education | Humor | Knowledge | Logic | School | Understanding
OBVIOUS OBSTACLE The teacher asked her class, “What was the single greatest obstacle to the building of the Panama Canal?” She called on a boy in the back who answered,
Adversity | Art and Music | Attitudes | Attributes of God | Depression | Fellowship | Fellowship with God | Gratitude | Health | Labor | Servanthood | Thanks
GOD IS IN COMMAND Here are some general suggestions when you are blue . . . Take a good walk. Tackle a job that requires lots of energy. Play cheerful
Adversity | Character | Dangers | Missions | Pain | Persecution | Praise | Sanctification | Suffering | Thanks | Trial
DANGERS MARK THE WAY We have reason, through the grace of God, that even our toughest times are used by God for our benefit. Even our dangers mark the way
Adversity | Appealing Talk | Attitude | Fellowship | Gratitude | Labor | Prayer | Shopping | Thanks | Tradition | Understanding | Worship
AUTOMATED GRATITUDE Beware of automated gratitude! I am irritated every time it happens. The checkout clerk rings up my purchases, takes my money, hands me the change, and says, “Thank
Adversity | Attitude | Attitudes | Choice | Choices | Determination | Health | Humor | Life | Praise | Thanks
MICHAEL’S ATTITUDE Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask
Adversity | Appreciation | Attitude | Blessing | Blessings | Focus | Perspectives | Short Shorts | Thanks
FOCUS ON YOUR BLESSINGS Reflect upon your present blessings of which every person has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all people have some. Charles Dickens
Adversity | Attitude | Attributes of God | Faith | Loss | Ministry | Missions | Sovereign | Sovereignty | Suffering | Tragedy | Trial
GOD’S SOVEREIGN PURPOSE William Carey, the father of modern missions . . . faced a ministry disappointment of overwhelming proportions. Only by resting in God’s sovereign purposes was he, like
Adversity | Conviction | Convictions | Leadership | Perseverance | Persistence | Resistance | Success
THE PATH TO WINNING First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. — Gandhi
Adversity | Joy | Life | Maturity | Opportunity | Sanctification | Suffering | Trial | Trials
TOO MUCH SUNSHINE All sunshine makes a desert. — An Arabic proverb
Adversity | Comfort | Compromise | Desire | Evangelism | Impact | Influence | Mediocrity
JELLYFISH EVANGELICALS Evangelicals are a lot like jellyfish. They float with the tides. They do not direct their own course. Sometimes the currents of the sea beach them. Then they
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Adversity | Aging | Commitment | Dysfunction | Family | Fellowship | Love | Marriage | Time
LOVE THAT SURVIVES You can see them alongside the shuffleboard courts in Florida or on the porches of the old folks’ homes up north: and old man with snow-white hair,
Adversity | Attitude | Attitudes | Labor | Moods | Rest | Short Shorts | Time | Work | Zeal
DAY OFF OR OFF DAY How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day? Doug Larson, United Feature Syndicate
Adversity | Fate | Home | Humor | Marriage | Pessimism | Problems | Providence | Short Shorts | Time
MR S. MURPHY’S LAW – MRS MURPHY’S LAW:If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong when he’s out of town.
