THICK SKIN & TENDER HEART Have thick skin and a tender heart, not thin skin and a tough heart. By Alex Montoya, from Moody Pastor Conference May, 1995
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WOODY ALLEN ON FAME Rolling Stone magazine interviewed Woody Allen. Among other things, Woody said, "Someone asked me if my dream was to live on in the hearts of people. I said I would prefer…
DIVORCE PREDICTIONS Divorce is a highly predictable outcome among couples caught in such a downward spiral of negative interaction, says John Gottman, professor of psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle. For two decades,…
FIND YOUR MASTER There can be no freedom or fulfillment apart from submission to Jesus Christ. "The purpose of life," said P. T. Forsyth, "is not to find your freedom, but to find your master."…
MARK TWAIN ON LOST YOUTH Ah, the dreams of our youth, how beautiful they are, and how perishable! The ruins of these might-have-beens, how pathetic! The heart-secrets that were revealed that night now so long…
SOCIETAL CHANGES "...it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or of building…
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LIVE WHAT THEY BELIEVE People may not always live what they profess, but they will always live what they believe. By Timothy Warner "Spiritual Warfare" November 10, 1992, West Suburban Evangelical Fellowship
LAWYERS AS LEGAL CRAFTSMEN A lawyer is "an architect of social structures," an expert in the design of frameworks of collaboration for all kinds of purposes, a specialist in the high art of speaking to…
REASON FOR FENCES Before you remove the fences you should ask why someone put them there. By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
CHRISTIANITY & BUDDHISM Even when I thought, with most other well-informed, though unscholarly, people, that Buddhism and Christianity were alike, there was one thing about them that always perplexed me; I mean the startling difference…
THE BIBLE by Sir Walter Scott Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To…
THE LORD'S PRAYER - PARAPHRASED By Thomas L. Peacock Father of all! who dwell'st above! Thy praises we proclaim: To thee be endless fear and love; All-hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come: thy will…
IN A COMA Back in January of 1970 in Miami, Florida, sixteen-year-old Edwarda O'Bara, came down with the flu. When she didn't get better after two weeks, her parents took her to the hospital. In…
DOES THE GOSPEL WORK? In the historical novel by Janet Dailey about the movement of the Cherokee Indian Nation out of the Alabama- Georgia territory, there were some interesting comments made by the Indians who…
NO FEAR WITH A FRIEND Calvin, the little boy, is in bed at night --"I can't sleep. I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction. At nighttime, the world…
NO PREPARATION FOR POLITICS Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. By Robert Louis Stevenson
CHURCH & CHRISTIANS More Americans believe in Jesus Christ but a smaller percentage belong to churches than did a decade ago, says a major Gallup Poll. The nationwide poll called "The Unchurched American," found that…
LOOSE EYE BALL It was my lunch hour on a beautiful autumn day, but I did not mind. A bloody towel clutched over a bloody face revealed the need. At seventy-six, John was slim, fit,…
CHRIST & HIS CROSS Sin creates a chasm across which no person can cross, so Christ brought a cross for me.
EINSTEIN DESCRIBES THE RADIO You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand…
