WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG A young soldier was learning to parachute. He was given the following instructions: (A) Jump when you are told; (B) Count ten and pull the ripcord; (C) In the very unlikely…
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OVERCOMING CIRCUMSTANCES Bunyan wrote Pilgrim's Progress from jail. Florence Nightingale, too ill to move from her bed, reorganized the hospitals of England. Semi-paralyzed and under the constant menace of apoplexy, Pasteur was tireless in his…
AT THE END OF THE DARKNESS A young boy was traveling with his mother on a train. They were suddenly and unexpectedly whisked into a long dark tunnel. When the train emerged from the darkness,…
AUDITED BY THE IRS Robert Perlman of Intel says, "Playing host to the IRS is a delightful experience. It's like being head-down in a hot tub."
FELLOWSHIP IN SMALL GROUPS In the fall of the year, Linda, a young woman, was traveling alone up the rutted and rugged highway from Alberta to the Yukon. Linda didn't know you don't travel to…
THE SINGING SALZBURGERS They lived in the 1700's in Salzburg, Austria. In those days each geographical area was to have only one religious group. Salzburg was not Lutheran, yet a large Lutheran congregation developed there.…
Adversity | Busyness | Discouragement | Failure | Faith | Frustration | Sports | Trial | Worldliness
RUN WITH THE HORSES Every once in a while, when I get tired of living by faith, I drive twenty-five miles southwest to Memorial Stadium in Baltimore and watch the Orioles play baseball. For a…
FAITH TO TELL THE TRUTH Kim Duk-Soo will never forget November 20, 1950. That was the day Communist troops found him hiding with his father in a root cellar. Kim, now the administrator of Presbyterian…
ANSWERED PRAYER This is about a man named Ioan Teodosiu who was arrested at his work place in Cluj- Napoca, Romania, in December, 1981 . . . the day after he had been interviewed by…
WHEN FRIENDS COME True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. Theophrastus
THE CANDID FRIEND Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet, perhaps return his blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh! save me…
FARMING -- HARD TIMES Each of two farmers won a million dollars in the state lottery. When a reporter asked the first farmer what he was going to do with his money, the farmer replied,…
HENRY FORD My heart went out to him now as I walked beside this energetic old man. What an enormous responsibility rested on those slight shoulders. His empire was made up of sixty American, nine…
IT'S ALL IN HOW YOU VIEW IT David, a second-grader, was bumped while getting on the school bus and suffered a two-inch cut on his cheek. At recess he collided with another boy and two…
PERSISTENCE Someone asked James Corbett, the heavyweight boxing champion at the time, what it took to be a heavyweight champion, and he said, "Fight one more round?"When asked how he had been so successful in…
TALKING BACK TO GOD I 'm sure when we've been in trouble, there are times we feel God is against us. St. Theresa, a 16th century reformer stood mired in the mud on one of…
WHAT'S GOING ON HERE, ANYHOW? When you find yourself in the middle of really tough times -- you cry out, like Job -- "What's going on here, anyway, God?" Farmer Brown had really bad troubles.…
EMOTIONALLY SEASICK A good thought from John Greenleaf Whittier to turn to when one feels emotionally and spiritually seasick: Yet in the maddening maze of things And tossed by storm and flood To one fixed…
THE RESURRECTION CONSPIRACY "As the late E.B. White watched his wife, Katharine, planning the planting of bulbs in her garden in the last autumn of her life," he wrote, "There was something comical yet touching…
OUT OF DESPAIR G. F. Handel's biographer described a time in his life when his health and his fortune had reached the lowest ebb. His right side had become paralyzed, and his money was all…
