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…
Sermon Illustrations
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
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…
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…
CREATING SOMETHING NEW OUT OF ASHES The following story
INDIVIDUAL PERSPECTIVE Another story
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…
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…
THE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS When the hustle and bustle is over And the last of the gifts has been wrapped, And the cookies and cakes are all ready For the big Christmas plans you have…
THE STABLE KEEPER He made the manger sweet with hay From fields where shepherds guarded sheep; Then, all unknowing, went away To simple fare and restful sleep./He stirred, half-awakened, slept again. Once murmured "An uncommon…
CHRISTMAS POETRY That Christmas Day, if you were God, And that was your Son on that stable sod./Wrapped for death with its sin cursed sting. Would you have made the angels sing? Would you have…
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT I am the Christmas Spirit -- I enter the home of poverty, causing palefaced children to open their eyes wide, in pleased wonder. I cause the miser's clutched hand to relax and thus…
THE WISE Behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem, saying Where is He . . . ? Miles across the turbulent kingdoms They came for it, but that was nothing; That was…
THE INN THAT MISSED ITS CHANCE ( The landlord speaks, A.D. 28) What could be done? The inn was full of folks: His Honor, Marcus Lucius, and his scribes Who made the cencus; honorable men…
THE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS Christmas is not a holiday package wrapped with gay ribbon and holly. It is a time for meditating, for recalling that night long ago when Bethlehem cradled to its heart and…
SONG OF BETHLEHEM I was a shepherd on that star-filled night In Bethlehem. I thought of long ago . . . I thought of brave Naomi taking flight From Moab's land, of Ruth who chose…
DON'T GET MAD, JUST GET EVEN DEPARTMENT I was amused by the story I read in Bits and Pieces about Jack's mother who ran into the bedroom when she heard him scream and found his…
DEATH THE TRANSFORMER "I've learned something through all my experiences -- that every exit is also an entrance. Every time you walk out of something, you walk into something. I got into this world by…
CONSIDERATION In one particular Peanuts comic strip, Linus is watching TV and Lucy comes up behind him with a pad and pencil and says, "Which would you rather have, a stomach ache or a headache?"…
COURAGEOUS CONFRONTATIONS Some stories keep reappearing with new faces, new ethnic identities, new locales. I saw this version in Reader's Digest: Boris the Russian arrived at the Pearly Gates and was welcomed by St. Peter.…
