I KNOW WHO HOLDS TOMORROW A few days before I left home to prepare for the ministry my gray-haired pastor, Rev. Temple, told me this story. I have told it […]
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BUILDING CHARACTER In the northeastern United States codfish are a big commercial business. Note the following facts: There is a market for eastern cod all over, especially in sections farthest
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FOR SPRINGS OR SCRAP HEAP A blacksmith, about eight years after his conversion, was approached by an intelligent unbeliever with the question: “Why is it you have so much trouble?
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WHEN JESUS CALLS It’s like the delightful story about the farmer and his mule. A farmer owned a mule that was very important to him because it was a good
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WHO’S BLAMED? A professional football coach was hired to manage the team. They had been experiencing a bad season. Like all football teams, if they don’t win the coach is
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INFILLING The Scriptures often exhort us to be filled with various godly virtues – which means what? How do we know if we are “full of goodness” (Rom. 15:14), for
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GET READY FOR THE TOUGH TIMES I enjoyed an article in ML Journal (Vol. VI, No. 1, Word, Inc.) entitled “Get Ready for The River’s Rising” by Vernon Grounds, President
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THE SKILLED BLOWS OF GOD God’s ways are past finding out, says the Scriptures. Sometimes we just do not understand why He operates the way He does. We become disillusioned
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USING OUR BURDENS A biologist tells how he watched an ant carrying a piece of straw which seemed too heavy. The ant came to a crack in the ground which
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WORKING TOGETHER Charles Osgood tells the story of two ladies who live in a convalescent center. Each of these ladies had suffered incapacitating strokes. Margaret’s stroke caused her left side
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PRAYER WHEN IT SEEMS TOO LATE Lord, I’m drowning in a sea of perplexity, Waves of confusion crash over me. I’m too weak to shout for help. Either quiet the
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BLOCKING THE LIGHT It was the summer before I entered 6th grade when I joined several other boys at a friend’s house one afternoon. It was a beautiful day —
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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Historian Arnold J. Toynbee at age eighty said: “To be mortal is not any means wholly disadvantageous. When I catch myself resenting not being immortal, I pull myself
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WHEN YOU MEET YOURSELF Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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DETERMINATION A stubborn four-year-old boy provides a good example of the persistence needed in the Christian life. Tommy’s home in Green Forest, Arkansas, was only a block or two from
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TWO KINDS OF DISCONTENT There are two kinds of discontent in this world: the discontent that gets to work and the dicontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what
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TEST OF FAITH Many Christians are hurt by even the slightest test of their faith. Yet God often uses attacks and slurs on one’s faith to strengthen it. Madalyn Murray
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DEFENDING EXCELLENCE Every Good and Excellent Thing Stands Moment By Moment on the Razor’s Edge of Danger and Must Be Fought For. H. Ross Perot
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OUT OF TROUBLE Around the turn of the century, young Clarence took his girlfriend for an outing and picnic lunch at a nearby lake. He was dressed in a suit
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PERSPECTIVE God has created a world in which many more good things than bad things happen. We find life’s disasters upsetting not only because they are painful but because they
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