LIFE'S DEEPER MEANINGS Keith Kendall, Pastor of Winchester Friends Church in Winchester, Indiana sent in the following winner which he gleaned from Tom Mullen's Laughing Out Loud And Other Religious Experiences. Examining life for Deeper…
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INCARNATION Shortly after World War II came to a close, Europe began picking up the pieces. Much of the Old Country had been ravaged by war and was in ruins. Perhaps the saddest sight of…
DANGERS In Fall '83 issue of my favorite quarterly journal, Leadership there is an excellent short article by LeRoy Patterson on "Dangers in Illustrating Sermons." In summary he says there are four dangerous kinds of…
SAVED ALONE In the year 1873, a Christian lawyer from Chicago named Horatio Spafford, placed his wife and four children on the luxury liner Ville de Havre sailing from New York to France. Spafford expected…
LET HIM PLAY In a large stone cathedral in Europe there was a very large, magnificient pipe organ. It was a Saturday afternoon, and the sexton was making one final check of the choir and…
KNOCK, KNOCK Our church operates a Christian School. Rev. Larry Moore is the administrator. His wife's name is Karin. They have two children. Heather is four years old and Jimmy is one. When Heather was…
A PARABLE OF UNITY During Vacation Bible School last week my wife had an experience with her primary class that she says she will never forget. Her class was interrupted on Wednesday about an hour…
PRESSING ON In a far country lived a band of minstrels who travelled from town to town presenting music to make a living. They had not been doing well. Times were hard; there was little…
ETERNITY Eternity is always a difficult thing for one to try and comprehend; just another quick little way to try to measure (our human limitation) our concept of a very, very long time: my daughter…
A REAL CHRISTIAN DESCRIBED A real Christian is an odd number, anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen; talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see; expects to go…
DAVID LIVINGSTONE'S TEXT David Livingstone is in his seventeenth year of work as a missionary in Africa. But never before had he been in such peril. He is surrounded by hostile and infuriated tribes, and…
LEAP OF FAITH Dr. Arn of the Church Growth Movement was producing a film entitled Circus. One youth of the cast pointed to the high trapeze and said, "Why don't you try it?" The other…
KILLER This is one I heard many years ago. I have no idea who first told it or where it comes from. I have used it to talk of the hidden power people sometimes exercise,…
THE SEVEN STAGES OF THE MARRIED COLD Here's another good one from Rick Mandl of Eagle Rock, California that he gleaned from the Saturday Evening Post in which are revealed a sequence of actions where…
GOD'S CHILDREN Our Sunday School Superintendent had two new boys in Sunday School. In order to register them she had to ask their ages and birthdays. The bolder of the two said, "We're both seven.…
BROKENNESS The following is an Hasidic anecdote taken from Consciousness and Tradition by Jacob Needleman (New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1982) p. 156. The rebbe is asked the following question by a pupil, referring to…
LOVE OF GOD The following story was found by two of our readers in The Contagious Congregation by George Hunter. It was sent in first by Jay Martin, Pastor of the Baptist Church in Manistique,…
CONVERSION STORY In May 1855, an eighteen- year-old boy went to the deacons of a church in Boston. He had been raised in a Unitarian church, in almost total ignorance of the gospel, but when…
INTERDEPENDENCE In the night the restless water of the lake surrendered to relentless cold, and, with autumnal overturn complete, became imprisoned in a glaze of ice -- a prisoner to itself in different form. So…
SOME BULLETS -- YOU JUST CAN'T DODGE The other day a friend shared this humorous little story with me. I thought it illustrated so well the statement in Numbers 32:23b: "You may be sure that…
