POWERFUL COMMUNICATION Sign seen in Chicago: "Warning! Guard Dog on Duty -- survivors will be prosecuted!" From Top Performance, by Zig Ziglar
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GROWING UP When the children stop asking where they came from and start refusing to tell you where they are going, you know they're growing up. Cornerstones
WHO'S SHARING WHAT WITH WHOM? A woman was out shopping one day and decided to stop for a cup of coffee. She bought a bag of cookies, put them into her purse, and then entered…
THE GIFT IS IN YOUR HAND Anthony Campolo, Sociology Professor at Eastern Baptist College and popular speaker, told of his experience one year at a Women's Conference where he was making a major address. At…
INSECURITY That's finding on your new job that your name is written on the door in chalk -- and there's a wet sponge hanging next to it.
TITHING A priest, Father Jerome Kelley, once asked one of his parishioners, Joseph Bucholz, to serve as financial chairman of his parish. Mr. Bucholz, the manager of a grain elevator, agreed on two conditions: 1.…
TO GIVE AGAIN The Koh-i-noor diamond is among the most spectacular in the world. Queen Victoria received it as a gift from a maharajah when he was a lad. Later as a grown man this…
HOW MUCH TO GIVE? "Go give to the needy sweet charity's bread. For giving is living," the angel said. "And must I be giving again and again?" My peevish, petulant answer ran. "Oh, no," said…
INVESTMENT One day in July, a farmer sat in front of his shack, smoking his corncob pipe. Along came a stranger who asked, "How's your cotton coming?" "Ain't got none," was the answer. "Didn't plant…
ONLY ONE "T" IN DIRTY He was not too well educated and his manner somewhat crude and rough. He became a Christian and was on fire for the Lord; constantly pestering his pastor to help…
OFFERTORY PRAYERS A pastor said, "I never really knew how important my offertory prayers were until one Sunday I prayed a prayer I read in Stewardship Facts: 'Lord, no matter what we say or do,…
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH It had been a hard winter in the Appalachian area. The snow had piled up deeper and deeper, the mercury dropped, rivers froze, people suffered. The Red Cross used helicopters to fly…
MONEY Jesus talked a great deal about money. Sixteen of the 38 parables were concerned with how to handle money and possessions. In the Gospels, an amazing one out of 10 verses (288 in all)…
A GREAT CHRISTMAS RESOURCE One of my favorite Christmas story resource books is paperback, The Guideposts Christmas Treasury (Bantam Books, 1972). It opens with this classic story I use at least once every four or…
ANNUNCIATION MATTHEW 1:18-25 Joseph! Do not fear -- For God-with-us will soon be here. A tender shoot from David's tree, he needs a place where he can be, To grow -- to learn, to harden…
NATIVITY Something in the air tonight, Lonely, strange and holy. Kings leave footprints in the sand, Moving slowly, slowly. Shepherds in their sheephide coats Watch the star intently, Speak to flocks with voices hushed, Move…
THE CHRISTMAS WE WILL NEVER FORGET When our son Pete was six, it was a depression year and the bare essentials were all we could afford. We felt we were richer than most people, though,…
SIMPLE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS There's a plastic lighted nativity scene on the front lawn of our church. One very cold yet sunny afternoon I happened to be walking down the sidewalk in front of the…
THE GIFT OF CHRISTMAS I was visiting an elderly woman recently. While there she asked me to get a box of letters from her dresser. As I was getting the letters, I saw a beautiful…
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING The time is early Dec. A family of four drives to a suburban mall to do some Christmas shopping. They decide to shop separately so that the presents they purchase for each other…
