WALKING ALONE In an interview with Tom Snyder in May of 1996, 31 year old actor Charlie Sheen told his reason for becoming a Christian. He said, "I was tired of walking alone."
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THORN BUSH SEEDS Many a word drops a seed from us that grows up a thorn bush in the soul on which it falls. -- Henry Ward Beecher
NO CHEAP PRESENTS In one of the comic strips, Peanuts, Charlie Brown cracks open his piggy bank. He says, "Look, I've got $9.11 to spend on Christmas." Lucy is not impressed. "You can't buy something…
WISE MEN COME SEEKING We are the Wise Men come seeking. Over the miles we are seeking-- Seeking not wealth, for we lack not possessions; Seeking not fame, for we have veneration; Seeking not friends,…
FALSE FUTURES With the advent of 900 numbers that charge the caller for each minute he or she speaks, there have come numerous options. Phone sex is bad enough, but then comes the false promises…
KIN TO GOD Francis Bacon put it: "They that deny God destroy man's nobility: for certainly man is kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not kin to God by his…
CAN'T SIT ON ITS LAP The four-year-old daughter of a busy father had acquired a fixation for the story "The Three Little Pigs," and demanded that he read it to her night after night. The…
TOO MUCH SALT Pain like salt, it's THE ingredient which makes for a flavor-full life. But then, too much salt will get you every time. Submitted and written by Gene Sikkink, Arizona City, Arizona
LIFE LIKE A CIRCUS So much of my life seems like a high wire act at the circus. If I at last get up there, I don't know why it seems so terrifying to fall.…
PARTLY HONEST A fellow went into a fried chicken place in Long Beach, California and bought a couple of chicken dinners for himself and his date late one afternoon. The young woman at the counter…
ASSEMBLING JEHOVAH WITNESSES A certain family kept getting unwanted visits from the Jehovah Witnesses. It was an annoying inconvenience; the husband or wife would tell their unwelcome callers that they were not interested in the…
CREATIVE CONFUSION If God wanted penguins to fly, he would have given them wings.
A PRINCE OF A KING Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that's not true. I have the heart of a young boy -- in a jar on my desk. --…
SECOND PLACE IS FIRST LOSER Slogan seen on back of teenager's sweatshirt: "Second place is the first loser." How good it is that God gives us his grace and that as we accept his grace…
ANGELS EVERYWHERE Calvin & Hobbs are discussing the current interest in angels. Calvin says to Hobbs: "I think angels are everywhere." Hobbs replies: "You do?" Calvin continues: "They're on calendars, books, greeting cards . .…
CATTLE CHARACTER To err is human, to moo bovine. See also The Pastor's Story File issues: September, 1986--"To Pledge or Not to Pledge," January, 1996--"Errant Erasers," March, 1996--"How Sin Feels," and Parables, Etc. October, 1995…
EVEN SUCH IS TIME by Sir Walter Raleigh Even such is time, that takes in trust, Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the…
WHICH LAW WINS The law of the flesh is always present, and the law of the Spirit must overcome the law of the flesh in order for us to walk by the Spirit. When an…
LIFE DEFINED I asked a physician-friend, "Do you have a good definition of life?" and he said, "Yes, of course. It's a sexually transmitted, incurable disease."' -- Dr. Deepak Choppa From the September 13, 1995…
LOOK AT THE BRIGHT SIDE There has never been a case of eyestrain which was caused by looking on the bright side of things.
