HE DOESN'T COST ME A DOLLAR When people complain that ministry costs money -- use this quote from President Pearson of Miami Christian College, sent to us by David Olson of Excelsior, Minnesota. r55331 The…
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RECIPROCITY At a party, a doctor who was chatting with a lawyer was interrupted by a woman who insisted on telling the doctor about a pain in her leg and asking him what to do…
SPIRITUAL DEPTH O. S. Hawkins used to spend his summers down in Tennessee at a place called '9 Miles.' Out there they had a surface well that you would have to pump and then the…
THE 'ONE HOLY NATION' PRINCIPLE In Charles Colson's book, Loving God, he has a chapter on the topic "One Holy Nation," in which he speaks of the awareness of the church as one inter-related, organic…
MATURE LOVE A young boy of about 12 noticed a young man polishing his nice Corvette one afternoon. The boy went up to the young man and asked where he got the car. The young…
THE STORY OF THE PRAYING HANDS The famous "Praying Hands" picture was created by Albrecht Durer, the son of a Hungarian goldsmith. He was born in Germany in 1471 and died if 1528. As is…
THE OPPOSITE OF STEWARD IS VICTIM In his book, The Search for Power, Harvard Professor David C. McClelland contends that there are four stages in the development of the individual to maturity: Stage 1: Power…
EXCUSES, EXCUSES Horace Bushnell made this list of those excused from benevolence giving. Those who believe "every man for himself." Those who believe that Christ made a mistake when he said: "Go into all the…
LOSING AND FINDING ONESELF Here is the losing and finding of life in a person. Marian Preminger was born in Hungary in 1913, raised in a castle with her aristocratic family, surrounded with maids, tutors,…
THE TRUTH COMES OUT A man entered a sporting goods store and told the proprietor he was taking up tennis and needed some equipment. He was sold a designer warm-up suit for $250, a pair…
THE PRICE THEY PAID Have you ever wondered what happened to those men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had…
CREDIT PHILOSOPHY One Alaska storekeeper's philosophy regarding credit: "You ask for credit, we don't give you -- you get mad. We give you credit, you don't pay -- we get mad. Better you get mad."…
MOTIVATION AND PERSISTENCE After attending a job-enrichment seminar, a supervisor decided that some of the suggested techniques could help combat his company's problems in productivity. He invited an employee to his office and told him…
CLARIFYING THE MESSAGE From a father's letter to a son in college: "Am enclosing $10 as you requested in your letter. Incidentally, $10 is spelled with one zero, not two."
EVERYTHING HAS ITS PRICE The jetliner had just taken off and all the passengers had settled down. In the first-class section a man sat next to a well-dressed matronly woman who was wearing a stunning…
THE NEW MATERIALISM In a recent editorial in Christianity Today, Harold Myra includes these words about the new materialism: We see it in every stratum of society, often resulting in preposterous consumption in a desperately…
CHEAP GIVING The world's stingiest man went Christmas shopping, but everything he saw was too expensive except a $50.00 vase that was on sale for $2.00 because the handle had been broken off. He bought…
SIMPLE RULES FOR INVESTING Don't gamble. Take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it until it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. Will Rogers,…
THE POWER OF ASSUMPTION A man was inviting a friend to his wedding anniversary celebration and was explaining how to get to his place. He said: "We're on the seventh floor, apartment D. Just touch…
PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE A fortune-teller studied the hand of a young man and said, "You will be poor and very unhappy until you are 37 years old." The young man responded, "Well, after that,…
