QUALIFICATIONS OF A GOOD PASTOR A good pastor must have: The strength of an ox, The tenacity of a bull-dog, The daring of a lion, The wisdom of an owl, […]
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RESPONSES TO THE VOICE FROM HEAVEN Mary, my wife and my favorite English teacher, recently passed along the following to me. It is entitled, appropriately, “The Lesson,” and although its
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LOOK AGAIN A man showed up at a talent agent’s office in New York City — right in the middle of the Great White Way — back during the halcyon
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THE STEWARDSHIP OF NEIGHBORLINESS — TIMING IS EVERYTHING A moving van was standing in front of a suburban home. The homeowners — husband and wife — were busy tidying up
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MISPLACED EMOTION The movie E.T. had an impact on most people when it was first released to the theaters. I remembered taking my five-year-old daughter to see it at a
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BLIND (BUT CORDIAL) ZEAL A young soldier on armed sentry duty for the first time had orders not to allow any cars onto the military base unless it bore a
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THE LAST WORD ON SOME LAST WORDS I don’t know how theological this one is, but Leonard Sweet found it: “Nonsense, they couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist. .
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A DEAL YOU CAN’T REFUSE The story is told (though not fully authenticated), that some years back Colonel Sanders went to Rome and arranged for private audience with the Pope.
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PICK YOUR WORDS WITH CARE The Wall Street Journal once paraphrased “Give us this day our daily bread” in legal contract language: “We respectively petition, request, and entreat that due
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SO AS NOT TO OFFEND The Washington, D.C. comic, Mark Russell, warns of requiring prayer in the public schools and of finding a prayer that fits everyone’s religious background. He
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THE OUTER LIMITS OF EXPERTISE We may be like the guide who was hired by some hunters to take them into the backwoods of Maine. After some days, they became
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PRACTICALITY A student of literature was hoping to become a poet someday. His literary hero was the renowned poet, T.S. Eliot. When the student graduated from Harvard, he went to
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CATS AND DOGS Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. Campbell’s Notebook, Vol. IX, No. 3.
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MAFIOSO “Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.” Woody Allen, in Campbell’s Notebook, Vol. IX, No. 3.
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WAGGING YOUR TAIL The true story is told of the translation of the New Testament from the English into Eskimo language. Problems arose for the translators when they encountered certain
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PROBLEMS One of the classic baseball television shots comes form the 1975 World Series, in which NBC captured Carlton Fisk, jumping up and down, waving his arms, trying to coax
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SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP A man named Hartley had a morbid fear of thunder. He went to a prominent psychiatrist who specialized in the treatment of this phobia, which is called
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IF YOU DON’T MIND On commencement day at Columbia University a cap-and-gowned youth, intently perusing his diploma, stepped into the path of an oncoming taxi. “Hey!” the driver screamed indignantly
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JUST ADD WATER In his book called America on Six Rubles a Day, the comedian Yakov Smirnoff writes: Coming from the Soviet Union, I was not prepared for the incredible
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ON THE CHEAP A minister was exhorting his flock to support foreign missions. One man loudly objected, “I don’t approve of foreign missions.” “But surely,” the minister countered, “You know
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