PEACE, PEACE True story, according to Pastor Lee Prong of Covenant Baptist Church of Wickliffe, Ohio: A retired couple was alarmed by the threat of nuclear war so they undertook a serious study of all…
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PERSPECTIVE The difference between ourselves and others is that we don't tell half of what we know, while they don't know half of what they tell. Bits and Pieces
GETTING DOWN TO CASES There once was a young preacher who had just landed his first congregation. Now this church was rather a small one and was composed entirely of the population of a small…
GROWING IN COURAGE AND MIGHT A man by the name of Mallory led an expedition to try to conquer Mt. Everest in the 1920's. The first expedition failed, as did the second. Then, with a…
POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE I am reminded of the story of the little boy overheard talking to himself as he strutted through the backyard, baseball cap in place, toting ball and bat. He was heard to…
THE ACCOMODATIONS OF LOVE The following two stories were both
APPLICATION IS ALMOST EVERYTHING Stephen Crane of Coatesville, PA sent this one in: It is the story of a soap manufacturer and a pastor who were walking together down a street in a large city.…
WHICH WAY DOES THE INFLUENCE FLOW? I was reminded of an old chestnut by Kit Hoag of Sonoma, CA. A dignified old clergyman owned a parrot of whom he was exceedingly fond, but the bird…
FORGIVENESS The following was shared with us by William F. Stehr, Pastor of St. James Lutheran Church in Jacksonville, Florida. He read it in Will Daylight Come by Dr. Richard Carl Hoefler. A little boy…
PROMISES TO KEEP Dr. Sullivan, former President of the Southern Baptist Convention tells the following story as related in Proclaim, Jan-Mar, 1979. It was submitted to us by Chris Cannon, Pastor of Antioch Baptist Church…
MAGNIFICENT WORDS TO PRICK UP YOUR EARS "I shall rise from the dead, from the prostration, from the prosternation of death, and never miss the sun, which shall be put out, for I shall see…
FORGIVENESS I found this story in Sunday Sermons. A certain seminary professor always introduces his class on the New Testament with a story from his own life. It seems that years and years ago he…
EVENTS THAT REVEAL I was recently speaking on the theme of "Revelation" or "Apocalypse." Crucial events often reveal otherwise hidden truths -- for good or for ill. I used the story I found in Reader's…
CASUALTIES IN THE HUNGER BATTLE More people died as a result of hunger in the past five years than those killed in wars, revolutions and murders over the past 150 years. As reported to the…
ACTIVE MEMBERS The pastor of a small Southern church was on his way home when he met an acquaintance from town who was not a member of his church. After chatting awhile the man asked…
THE NAME IDENTIFIES Robert Mentze, Associate Pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Escondido, California sent in the following item: Several centuries before Christ, Alexander the Great came out of Macedonia and Greece to conquer…
NOT A BIT OF INFLUENCE My friend Ronnie Patton told me the one about the market research interviewer who was stopping people in the grocery store after they picked up their bread. One fellow picked…
GETTING THROUGH? One of our Saratoga church members, Ken Christiansen, shared this story with us the other night -- on the problem of assuming you are on the same wave length -- when you aren't.…
SAY IT CLEARLY As ministers of the Gospel we must be communicators, sensitive to those things that help or hinder the understanding of the message. Sometimes we need assistance in getting that message through. I…
DEATH Once a dying patient asked his doctor, who had come to make a housecall on him, what death would be like. The doctor fumbled for a reply and then he heard his dog scratching…
