HOPE AND SCIENCE Bernard Ramm, in Offense to Reason, comments on hope. He says, "Scientism says that our only valid knowledge is that given to us by modern science. One thing science cannot give us…
Sermon Illustrations
PRIMITIVE The first business concession that Armand Hammer received in Russia following his 1921 visit with Lenin, was the development of an asbestos mine near the rural town of Alapayevsk. This town was so primitive…
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT On a winter day in 1961, the meteorologist, Edward Lorenz, was using computer modeling to explore the science of weather forecasting. Lorenz would boil weather down to the barest skeleton, then feed…
PRAYER In the United States of America, we associate the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with "state of the art" technology. However, during a news conference from the space shuttle in 1984, a recorded message…
APPEARANCES AND REALITY The trouble is that our public men are really artificial. They're created by the most devastating tool that technology has invented. . . the teleprompter: They don't speak spontaneously. . . They…
MAKOWER'S IMMUTABLE LAWS OF COMPUTING 1) No matter how much you know about computers, you can find an expert who can render everything incomprehensible. 2) You will never run out of disks or printer ribbons…
THE RIGHT COMBINATION I was accompanying my husband on a business trip. He carried his portable computer with him, and the guard at the airport gate asked him to open the case. It was locked,…
MORE BLESSED TO GET? Jim Taylor, pastor of Tri-Community Christian Fellowship in Oracle, AZ, wrote in the November/December, 1989 issue of Charisma of an interesting experiment with some of the major Christian ministers who faithfully…
UNWRAPPING CHRISTMAS It's getting tougher all the time to unwrap Christmas. Modern technology has given us shrink wrap, which defies all attempts to tear it, fiber strapping tape which some knives won't cut and epoxy…
THE INCARNATION Through the good graces and extra funds of my in-laws, I was given an IBM computer. One of the first programs I purchased was a word processor, which turns the computer into a…
THE SURVIVORS For all those born before 1945 - consider the changes we have witnessed... We were born before television, before penicillin, before polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, plastic, contact lenses, frisbees and the PILL.…
WORLD CHANGE Reformers who treat the campaign against environmental and human degradation solely in terms of improved technological facilities, like the reduction of gasoline exhaust in motor cars, see only a small part of the…
TECHNOLOGY MADE RIGHT The following is from Bucky Fuller who is called the "godfather" of the Whole Earth Catalog... Humanity is acquiring the right technology for all the wrong reasons - and only as driven…
A PURPOSE FOR PROGRESS One of the discouraging discoveries of our disillusioning century is that science is neutral: it will kill us as readily as it will heal, and will destroy for us more readily…
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MATERNAL RIGHTS During the American Revolution, an officer was sent around the Virginia country side to confiscate horses for military use. He came to a fine old mansion, rang the bell, and asked to speak…
A FEW GOOD MEN AND WOMEN I heard the story recently of the president of a Fortune 500 corporation who was so impressed by a book entitled Men and Women of God that he called…
UNFRIENDLY PHONES In a recent newsletter from the GOODNEWS computer B.B.S., there was an interesting telephone conversation that was recorded. It seems some people are a little put off when they make a phone call…
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL EFFECTS Pontius Puddle, a frog prince cartoon character that appears every week in the United Methodist Reporter, tells his friend, the turtle, "I told our children's class the Christmas story - how the…
THE DANGER OF COMPLACENCY On February 25, 1991 a SCUD missile hit an American Army barracks in Saudi Arabia, killing 28 and wounding 90. Was the Iraqi technology so good that they could pinpoint the…
SERVICE ECONOMY Here is the definition of a service economy as observed by and adapted from Bob Orben in The Executive Speechwriter Newsletter: First you go to a coin-operated laundry-mat so that you can wash…
