JESUS IS WORTH IT Sheila Walsh, former co-host of the 700 Club wrote in her book Holding onto Heaven with Hell on Your Back: "If I say I'm willing to follow Jesus, what do I…
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FALSE ALARM CHILE Authorities in Tiburon, California evacuated all the customers and work personnel in a Mexican restaurant after police received a report of an acrid-smelling toxic waste leak, but an investigation revealed it was…
JUST NEED A HUG Helga, the wife of Hagar the Horrible, that intrepid Viking from the comics, is standing at the pot and cooking. She hears a noise and asks, "Is that you Hagar?" Hagar…
ENDURANCE NOT LOVE Who would wish for hardship and difficulty? You command us to endure these troubles, not to love them. No one loves what he endures even though he may be glad to endure…
REAGAN ON ARTISTIC FREEDOM President Ronald Reagan, presenting the National Medal of Arts: No one realizes the importance of freedom more than the artist, for only in the atmosphere of freedom can the arts flourish.…
Adversity | Character | Growth | Maturity | Sanctification/ Opportunity | Suffering | Trial | Trials
SQUEEZING AND CRUSHING Only when the grape is squeezed can it bring forth wine. Only when the grain is crushed can it rise as bread.
Solving problems is simple. Living with these solutions is difficult.
Adversity | Advice | Guidance | Humor | Leadership | Politics | Problems | Solutions | Understanding
POLITICS IS Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. Groucho Marx
GETTING LARGER CROWDS Sir Winston Churchill had just made a speech. And the large crowd had stood and applauded. A woman walked up and said to him: Sir, isn't it flattering that so many have…
Adversity | Advice | Guidance | Humor | Leadership | Politics | Problems | Solutions | Understanding
POLITICS IS Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. Groucho Marx
TRANSCENDERS There was a report in the newspaper about a psychologist's study of "transcenders." These transcenders were children, who lived through impossible childhoods and went on to become successful. They "transcended" their surroundings, and refused…
OVERRIDING OBJECTIONS Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904, a tough assignment even for a normal person. She finished with excellent reading knowledge of Greek, Latin, German, and French -- all in Braille, of…
DAY AT A TIME An old idiom says, "Life is hard by the yard, but by the inch, it's a cinch. Jesus taught us to live one day at a time. We are not to…
DON'T JUST SIT THERE A rabbit being chased by a dog through the countryside was observed by a crowd enjoying a family picnic. They cheered for the rabbit as he swiftly hopped from side to…
DAD KNOWS The story is told of a man shopping in a grocery store. His young son followed, carrying a large basket. The father loaded the basket with one thing after another. A woman began…
A TIME OF DEATH February 26, 1994 was a day like any other day to much of the world. But to the folks who live in Springdale, Arkansas it was a day of mourning. For…
EINSTEIN'S REJECTION A six-year-old boy came home from school with a note saying "Keep this boy at home. He is backward and unteachable." This boy had difficulty with vocabulary skills and was far behind the…
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music. It is false pride to demand to know the score. Harmony, like a following breeze at sea, is the exception. In a…
PUT COZY PAST BEHIND Aleksander Solzhenitsyn explains the total abandonment of all the superficials of one's self in order to stand firm under the worst torture: "From the moment you go to prison you must…
TALKING TO A DEAD SOLDIER Paul Baumer was talking to a man who jumped into the fox-hole with him and whom he killed instinctively. "The silence spreads. I talk and must talk. So I speak…
