FAITH Sweeping across Germany at the end of World War II, Allied forces searched farms and houses looking for snipers. At one abandoned house, almost a heap of rubble, searchers with flashlights found their way…
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HANDICAPPED? My secretary, Eileen, recently went to the Flint Center to see and hear Gordon McCrae perform. She told me the following story that Gordon told: It seems that Arnold Palmer was invited to come…
INDIVIDUAL PERSPECTIVE Another story
CREATING SOMETHING NEW OUT OF ASHES The following story
THE FAST MODERN PACE TAKES ITS TOLL It seems a young boy entered the corner grocery store one day and asked the grocer for a box of Duz detergent. The grocer was puzzled and asked…
CROSSROADS Civilization stands at the crossroads. Down one road is despondency and despair, and down the other is total annihilation. Let us pray that we choose the right road. A slightly mangled quote from Woody…
FAILURE If you're not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. Reader's Digest, quote of Woody Allen
DIFFERENT MENTALITIES I was jogging with my architect friend, Jerry, the other morning down at the Y, and he shared another old chestnut with me. It seems that the Stanford Research Institute was making a…
REAL POWER Billy Graham recently spoke in the San Jose area, and on the closing day told this story which you may remember. It's a favorite. It seems there was a strong man who traveled…
FLATTERY AND HYPOCRISY When the Pharisees came to encounter Jesus, they came filled with fake charm and smooth talking words (Matthew 22: 16, 17). They remind me of the description of Zoltan Karpathy by Professor…
MALICE Charles Colson, in his recent letter (Prison Fellowship), points out a new level of malice abroad today with the marketing of a new family board game called "Capital Punishment." He points out that instead…
CLOTHING IDENTIFIES US It seems a woman was telling her friend about the friendship her son Christopher had struck up with young Katie, a neighbor's daughter. The two five-year-olds were inseparable all summer, climbing trees,…
BE SURE OF YOUR COURSE AND KEEP ON GOING! The setting was a cold January morning in a little town in Wisconsin, where I then was, on the southern shore of Lake Superior. It happened…
ATONEMENT It was a mountain one-room school house where severe discipline was used to keep the rowdyism of uninterested pupils in check. The noon recess was ended and the teacher was interrogating the class with…
PERSPECTIVE -- A PUZZLER During World War II, a General and his subordinate Lieutenant in the states were travelling from their base to a base in another state. They were forced to travel with civilians…
THE GOSPEL OF THE SECOND CHANCE Then the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time: (Jonah 3:1). In some ways that is the most startling truth in the Book of Jonah. God…
PRAYER'S FOCUS There was a five-year-old attending a formal wedding some years ago. The girl was sitting with her grandmother. She had been in Sunday School but had never attended a formal church service. During…
OUR ONENESS IN CHRIST I was at the 120-year- old institution to speak (Indiana State Prison). Only weeks earlier, Stephen Judy had been electrocuted there. An execution always creates a special tension in a prison,…
THE GREAT DECISION A little boy was told by his doctor that he could save his sister's life by giving her some blood. The six-year-old girl was near death, a victim of disease from which…
PROBLEMS -- SOLUTIONS There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible and wrong. H. L. Mencken, Bits and Pieces
