DISCOVERING GOD During World War II the famous American pilot, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, was flying on a special mission to the Pacific Islands. The plane crashed and Rickenbacker and his crew were lost at sea…
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OUR TASK -- IN THE DARKNESS Matt Ferguson of the Christian Nurture Commission of the Presbyterian Church, Evansville, Indiana, gleaned this one from Lloyd Ogilvie: 47714 At age twelve, Robert Louis Stevenson was looking out…
TOUGH HURDLES I received this delightful story from Calvin Van Kirk Hoyt, Rector of Mount Calvary Episcopal Church in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. A dignified English solicitor-widower with a considerable income had long dreamed of playing…
PSEUDO CONCERN A knock at the door brought the lady of the house face to face with a man of sad countenance. He said "I am sorry to disturb you, but I am collecting money…
FIGURING THE PROFIT A small businessman from the old country kept his accounts payable in a cigar box, his accounts receivable on a spindle, and his cash in the cash register. His son said, "I…
WHAT REALLY COUNTS A fable has it that a farmer decided to transplant an old brier bush into a rose garden. The brier protested. "What a foolish man! Don't you know I'm just an old…
THE TRANSFORMING LOOK A man came back to work in a place where he had been fired several months previously. His work was superior. A fellow worker remembered how inconsistent he had been in the…
OBLIVIOUS It seems this particular fellow frequently came home drunk and he was so far gone that he would fall into bed fully clothed, pass out and then snore loudly all night long. Finally, his…
WHOOP DE DO Rev. Charles Kinyon, Pastor of Flagler Baptist Church of Flagler, Colorado sent in this quote from James Dobson's book Emotions: Can You Trust Them? Dobson tells the story as related to him…
DO WHAT YOU CAN from Leadership Spring 1983 issue. In Elmer Bendiner's book, The Fall of Fortresses, he describes one bombing run over the German city of Kassel: Our B-17 (The Tondelayo) was barraged by…
ANGER Anger in particular seems close to a professional vice in the contemporary ministry. Pastors are angry at their leaders for not leading and at their followers for not following. They are angry at those…
BONDAGE Richard Doebler, Pastor of People's Church in Dalhart, Texas shares this one with us which he picked up from Zig Ziglar: 79022 Harry Houdini, the famed escape artist from a few years back, issued…
GRACE G. Campbell Morgan was once approached by a soldier who said he would give anything to believe that God would forgive sins, "but I cannot believe He will forgive me if I just turn…
SAD COMMENTARY Keith Kendell, Pastor of Winchester Friends Church of Winchester Indiana sent in the following item which he got from Charles M. Davis in Daily Guideposts. 47394 I used to visit a tiny general…
MUDDLING THROUGH One of my favorite Peanuts stories shows Charlie Brown working on a woodworking project one day when Lucy comes by and asks: "How's the birdhouse coming along, Charlie Brown?" He replies, "Well, I'm…
MIXED MOTIVES Sometimes our generosity comes from mixed motives. It seems that some vandals had cut down six royal palms along Miami's Flagler Street. Since the palms are very expensive, Dade County authorities weren't sure…
THE SIN-RAVAGED LIFE When Leonardo da Vinci was painting his masterpiece, The Last Supper, he selected as the person to sit for the character of the Christ a young man, Pietri Bandinelli by name, connected…
HOW DO YOU RESPOND? Robert White of Advance, MO tells about the sign he saw on a trip he and his wife took through Baton Rouge, Louisiana. As you travel along I-10 there is a…
THE PERFECT MINISTER What is a perfect minister? Results of a survey indicate that the perfect minister never raises his voice out of the pulpit. He/she preaches only twenty minutes and condemns sin without ever…
SATISFIED, AND MORE THAN SATISFIED Little Bobby went to visit his Aunt Mary. When he arrived, Aunt Mary asked him what he would like to do. He said, "Well, I love your pancakes and whenever…
