STONEWALL JACKSON During the Battle of Bull Run things looked lost for the South as the Confederates were in retreat. However, at Henry House Hill a group of Virginians held formation. General Barnard Bee saw…
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PAUL AND SILAS Paul Hacket is an African-American pastor in Southern California who has a unique way in which to tell the story of Paul and Silas. This is the way he tells the story…
SO EASILY PROVOKED A sense of humor enables us not so much to laugh at the people who provoke us as to laugh at ourselves for being so easily provoked. By Robert Power
GIVE THE BALL TO LARRY Whether you are a basketball fan or not, you are probably familiar with the name Larry Bird -- the former basketball great of the Boston Celtics. During a retirement party…
GOD LOVES STORIES When the great Rabbi Israel Baal Shem- Tov saw misfortune threatening the Jews, it was his custom to go into a certain part of the forest to meditate. There he would light…
INCOMPLETE FORGIVENESS A man was on his deathbed. He called for an old enemy to come to see him; and when the gentleman arrived, the dying man said, "I want to forgive you for the…
THE BIGGER TEAM Just received my September issue of Parables Etc. and thank you so very much. You continue to do an excellent job with this publication and I want to encourage you to "keep…
FROM DISASTER TO DOXOLOGY The decade of the 1660s in England was filled with disaster. The plague in 1665 made its way through the city of London leaving 70,000 dead. A year later a fire…
TRIALS & LIFE Trials are an inescapable part of life. Don't run from them. You will just run toward other ones. Instead, stop and face them as they come. You will then learn to defeat…
NEED THE WIND TO FLY Ornithologists assure us that the eagle, the condor of the Andes, the albatross of the Pacific and even the swiftly flying little dove, like many other strong winged birds can…
THEFT- PROOF MUSIC I knew I was getting old when a thief broke in to my car and stole my tape deck but left my tapes behind.
CHRISTMAS IN NAZI GERMANY Christmas Eve in 1941 was bitterly cold in Europe. I remember it very well for I spent it in a German POW camp on the outskirts of the town of "Rueone"…
UNHAPPY GIFTEDNESS I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. By Thornton Wilder
IMAGINARY PROBLEMS One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations. By Steve Allen, How to Make a Speech
THOSE PRETTY PICTURES An old woman was living in Scotland in the most abject poverty. She had never had the advantage of education and had never traveled outside the borders of her own little township.…
FRIENDS IN ADVERSITY A young couple shared this actual account: "Our three year old son has had to endure four operations to correct a muscle problem with his eyes. He may yet lose the sight…
RELUCTANT STUDENT Did you hear about the little first grader on the first day of school? At lunch time, he packed up his crayons, papers, scissors, and paste and was ready to head out the…
LAWS & AXIOMS OF LIFE Meyer's Law: In a social situation, that which is most difficult to do is usually the right thing to do.
“…and the altar burst apart and the ashes from the Altar were scattered” (I Kings 13:5). A clergyman turned author tells the story of the first funeral service he conducted: It left a bad taste…
“Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, ‘Take courage son, your sins are forgiven’” (Matthew 9:9). In 1992, Dennis Byrd, then a defensive lineman for the New York Jets professional football team suffered a…
