A SMILE WILL DO The following story is from an article entitled, "Your Daffodils are Pretty," (Christianity Today, Mar 2, 1979, p. 18), in which Josephine Ligon tells of a family in the town where…
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FORGIVENESS is man's deepest need and God's highest achievement. Horace Bushnell
LOVE THAT ABSORBS SUFFERING This is supposed to be a true story from the time of Oliver Cromwell in England. A young soldier had been tried in military court and sentenced to death. He was…
THE CROSS SHOWS HOW HARD IT WAS FOR GOD TO FORGIVE Hard it is, very hard, To travel up the slow and stony road To Calvary, to redeem mankind; far better To make but one…
DIVINE DEFIANCE Here is the true story of Edith Taylor. It appeared in the Mar. issue of Guideposts, movingly written by Bob Considine, a noted author and newspaper columnist. Edith and her husband Karl lived…
VARIETIES OF SIN In a sermon on "sin," a preacher announced that there were seven hundred eighty-nine different sins. A few days later the mailman delivered ninety- four requests from members of his congregation for…
DECALOGUE-BARGAINING I loved the cartoon in the Hong Kong Tatler that showed Moses just come down from the top of the mountain with the tablets in his hand. He's reporting to the children of Israel…
85 EXCUSES A farmer asked his neighbor if he might borrow a rope. "Sorry," said the neighbor, "I'm using the rope to tie up my milk." "Milk?" exclaimed the first farmer. "Rope can't tie up…
WAR OF PRETENSE In a small college town a tavern frequented by students ran the following ad in the campus paper during the days before Parents Weekend: "Bring Your Parents For Lunch Saturday. We'll pretend…
TALLEST TALES DEPARTMENT: AFFIRM THE PRESENT A man was being chased by a ferocious tiger. He ran until he came to a sheer cliff. As the tiger came bearing down on him, he grabbed a…
STEWARDSHIP OF TIME AND MONEY From Prayers, p. 69, Michel Quoist [Andrews & McMeel Inc.] 1963 "You who are beyond time, Lord, you smile to see us fighting it. And you know what you are…
ONE TRACK MIND boss commented to his secretary about one of his men: "Harry has such a bad memory, it's a wonder he remembers to breathe. I asked him to pick up a newspaper on…
CHURCH ATTENDANCE I loved the story in a recent Reader's Digest about the pastor who was having a cup of coffee in the restaurant across the street from the church. He was reading his paper…
YOUR GIFTS ARE NOT YOUR OWN You have your gifts not so much for your own sake as for the sake of others. You are like an apple tree which produces fruit not for its…
STILL ACCOUNTABLE Chaplain Johnson also sent in the following which he clipped from a fellow pastor's bulletin: r94587 It had been thought that after the death of Walt Disney that the pressures in the Disney…
DO THE THING YOU CAN DO Wally Rasmussen, the son of a poverty-stricken chicken farmer, loved to tinker with motors and machinery, but the only job he could find was as a hired hand on…
MAXIMIZE YOUR STRENGTHS When Woolworth decided to open a brand new department store of his own, he worked hard for the grand opening day. Just a week before he was to open his doors, a…
THE WISDOM THAT COMES IN CRISIS There's a true story that comes from the sinking of the Titanic. A frightened woman found her place in a lifeboat that was about to be lowered into the…
BESIDES BEING FORGIVEN Many of us are like the little boy who had broken the glass of a street lamp. Greatly disturbed, he asked his father, "What shall I do?" "Do?" exclaimed his father, "Why…
A FATHER'S PRAYER Upon the Murder of His Son. O God, We remember not only Bahram, But also his murderers. Not because they killed him in the prime of his youth and made our hearts…
