TRANSIENT FORGIVENESS Two little brothers, Harry and James, had finished supper and were playing until bedtime. Somehow, Harry hit James with a stick, and tears and bitter words followed. Charges […]
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LEARNING QUICK HOW IT WORKS Pastor Doyal Van Gelder of Prior Lake, Minnesota writes: One morning as our son, Ronnie, was getting ready to go to kindergarten, he turned to
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IT’S A GIFT Sugar Ray Leonard was invited to speak at Harvard. He said: “I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We’ve all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine
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POVERTY PERSPECTIVE In Hollywood, there is an exclusive school attended by children of movie stars, producers and directors. Asked to write a composition on the subject of poverty, one little
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DESIGNATED GIVING The congregation was taking up a special collection to add to the salaries of pastors who received very inadequate salaries because they worked in very small churches who
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UNIQUENESS We need to treasure our uniqueness. Even those aspects of uniqueness that don’t always fit in. I saw this illustrated in a cartoon that showed the foreman of a
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TALENTS A hot-headed woman told John Wesley, “My talent is to speak my mind.” Replied Mr. Wesley, “Woman, God wouldn’t care a bit if you would bury that talent.” Christian
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THE GIFT OF IMAGINATION In Berkeley, near the campus of the University of California, there’s a place where the ramp goes up the freeway. Just about the time vacations begin
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FOOT IN MOUTH DISEASE Our readers often send in items which tell about their experience in putting their foot in their mouth. Scott Widmer, Methodist pastor from Morgantown, Pennsylvania, sends
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STEWARDSHIP NOTE At Presbytery, yesterday, one of my colleagues passed along this definition of the seven decades of man: Spills, Drills, Thrills, Bills, Ills, Pills and Wills. His point was,
INTERPRETIVE BIAS Whenever we interpret Scripture, we tend to lean towards our own bias. We need to recognize the reality of such biases that we all have. I loved the
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NEW SOURCES OF FUNDS For a number of years, Andrew Carnegie, whose wife loved classical music, made up the annual deficit of the New York Philharmonic Society. Then on year,
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MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS TO DRIVE On his sixteenth birthday the son approached his father and asked, “Dad, I’m sixteen now. When I get my license can I drive the family
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PERSPECTIVE Linus is watching a football game on TV. He’s really into it, cheering “GO! GO! GO!” and finally jumps up and hollars “Fantastic.” Then he runs outside and finds
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HOUSING IN HEAVEN There once was a bus driver and a minister standing in line to get into Heaven. The bus driver approaches the gate and St. Peter says, “Welcome,
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MOTIVATION One day Linus is on his way to school with a bunch of spring flowers in his hand. Charlie Brown meets him along the way and immediately figures out
ANTICIPATING THE WORST When you fear that the worst will happen, your own thoughts may help to bring it about. Someone once wrote, “Fear is the wrong use of imagination.
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PERSPECTIVE The city man bought a farm and was visited by his new neighbor. He asked him, “Can you tell me where the property line runs between our farms?” The
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DESERVING, BUT WITHIN LIMITS Linus and Lucy were talking. Linus: “I’ve been thinking. Charlie Brown has really been a dedicated baseball manager. He’s devoted his whole life to the team.
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SWEET REVENGE I love the one sent in by Robert Dalke of Turpin, Oklahoma. He heard it on the local news coming out of Liberal, Kansas. It seems that an
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