MODERN CHRISTMAS TREE On January 1st, one man’s New Year’s resolution was to become a non-conformist. For instance, he resolved never again to take part in the over- commercialization of […]
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OPPORTUNITIES – BLOWING THEM Late one Christmas Day a resident of the posh community of Hillsborough, California, accompanied by his wife and children, set out to sing carols for the
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CHRISTMAS A kindergarten Sunday School teacher was working hard to get her class to focus on the story of Jesus’ birth, and to stop thinking about Santa Claus. She read
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EPITAPH I am told that an Indiana cemetery has a tombstone (over 100 years old) which bears the following epitaph: “Pause Stranger, when you pass me by, As you are
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HAPPY ENDING Young Jonathan, who had been promised a new puppy for his tenth birthday, had a tough time choosing between a dozen likely candidates at the neighborhood pet shop.
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A GLORIOUS SEND-OFF A boy was playing with his pet turtle when all at once the turtle turned blue, fell over on his back and lay motionless. Upset, the boy
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MIXED MESSAGE A Philadelphia legal firm sent flowers to an associate in Baltimore upon the opening of its new offices. Through some mixup the ribbon which bedecked the floral piece
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COMMUNICATION FLOW — WHICH DIRECTION? I recently have been reading Henry Trewhitt’s McNamara: His Ordeal In The Pentagon (Harper and Row, 1971 pp. 12, 13). In it I found this
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EMERGENCY NUMBER As my boss prepared to go on vacation in another state, I kiddingly asked him to leave a telephone number where we could reach him at least once
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FACE THE FACTS BOLDLY An Englishman went abroad leaving his much loved dog and servant home. While away, the man received a cablegram from the servant with the message, “Your
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COMMUNICATING LOVE Ole and Olga lived on a farm in Iowa. Olga was living on a starvation diet of affection. Ole never gave her any signs of love, and Olga’s
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THE DIFFICULTY IN COMMINCATING ABOUT LOVE Lucy says to Charlie Brown: “You know what I don’t undertand? I don’t understand love!” He says, “Who does?” She says, “Explain love to
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BECOMING POSSIBLE The teacher asked her class what each wanted to become when they grew up “President,” “a fireman,” “a teacher.” One by one they answered until it became Billy’s
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IT’S TOUGH TO BECOME A SAINT Young Brian, age 5, had been told the story of the ‘pillar-monk,’ Symeon the Stylite, in Sunday School. He was captivated by this Godly
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WHITEWASHING THE FAMILY’S BLACK SHEEP The children in a prominent family decided to give their father a book of the family’s history for a birthday present. They commissioned a professional
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THE DECEITFUL HEART OF MAN The locus classicus on the flushing out of the deceitful heart of man is the oft-quoted story about the four boys who cut class one
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FLEXIBLE REALITIES A man stopped to chat with a farmer who was erecting a new building. He asked, “What are you putting up?” The farmer replied, “Well, if I can
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THE TRUTH WILL OUT WHEN THE CONTRACT IS SIGNED A reporter asked a man on his ninety-fifth birthday, “To what do you credit your long life?” The old-timer responded, “Well,
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CHILDREN’S EVANGELISM A while ago my friends were amazed to hear their five year old daughter, Lindsay, telling her little friend about Jesus. The children were sitting on the front
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CHILDREN, TEACH US TO PRAY I was sitting in with my wife one Wednesday evening as she was teaching a five-year-old’s Bible class. It came time to have some animal
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