THE SIN OF WASTE Senator William Proxmire reported to the Senate that the Department of Transportation had squandered $225,000 on a study forecasting transportation needs in the year 2025. Proxmire pointed out that this study…
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THE SIN OF TOO MUCH CANDOR Another true incident from the life and times of your editor. My wife and daughter were taking my five-year-old granddaughter over to a parishioner's pool for a swim. The…
A CONSTANT SOURCE OF GOOD STORIES I make no apology for the fact that I find some of my best illustrations in the anecdotes of the Reader's Digest. The trick is not using the current…
UNIQUE LOVE COMMUNICATIONS The following item was sent in by Dick Underdahl-Peirce, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Cottage Grove, Minnesota. It is similar in kind to Chapter 15 of Erma Bombeck's Motherhood: the Second Oldest Profession. Dear…
CONSIDER THE CHILDREN A distinguished elderly gentleman, walking through the toy department, stopped to admire a toy train. It whistled, belched smoke, deposited milk cans, in fact did virtually everything a real freight train does.…
ETHICS SIMPLIFIED A father was explaining ethics to his son who was about to go into business: "Suppose a woman comes in and orders $100 worth of material. You wrap it up and give it…
THE GRASS MAY NOT BE GREENER "I sit in my house in Buffalo and sometimes I get so lonely it's unbelievable. Life has been so good to me. I've got a great wife, good kids,…
THE ACID TEST In our church where people have been sitting in the same pew for years, the following is apropos: The old retiring usher was giving instruction to his young, inexperienced replacement: "And remember,…
DEATH ACCORDING TO ARCHIE BUNKER When you gotta go, you gotta go. You because he wants you. And when he wants you. And he don't want no quack doctors putting new hearts into you and…
YOU TELL ME I AM GETTING OLD You tell me I am getting old. I tell you that's not so! The "house" I live in is worn out, and that, of course, I know. It's…
Aging | Assurance | Defeat | Easter | Eternal Life | Heaven | Hope | Life | Resurrection | Salvation
AND WHAT ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT? Mohammad Ali, former heavyweight boxing champion denied that he attempted another comeback at age 39 just to stay in the spot light. He said, "If I just wanted that,…
DESCENT INTO MEDIOCRITY "The church is filled with fifty-year-old men who started brilliantly, who worked in places of real prominence and in the process have lost the very ways of doing their work that give…
WILT THOU FORGIVE? Wilt Thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before? Wilt Thou forgive that sin, through which I run, And do run still, though still…
DEATH The following item appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Easter Sunday this year: "Survey: Do most folks believe they'll see heaven? A Wisconsin survey indicates that most folks believe they will end up in…
GUARD AT THE SEPULCHER by Edwin Markham I was a Roman soldier in my prime; Now age is on me, and the yoke of time, I saw your risen Christ, for I am he Who…
MAUNDY THURSDAY It was Maundy Thursday. We were having the traditional communion service. This time the pastor suggested that as we passed the bread and cup we whisper, "The body of Christ, broken for you."…
ADVERSITY Stopped by a policeman for driving without a taillight, the driver became quite distressed. "Don't take it so hard," consoled the officer, "it's a minor offense." "That's not the point," replied the troubled driver.…
ABSENT CREED Each Sunday morning as they began class, the fifth graders would line up and recite their one section of the creed in the order that it was written. That teaching method worked well…
BANQUET INTRO Frank Mosley, Pastor of the Evangelical Community Church of Jackson, Tennessee sent in this one, suggesting it might be used in an introduction of someone at a banquet where you want to give…
GRATITUDE To illustrate the importance of thankfulness at this season of the year I found these lines that were recently
