BIG BUCKS COMMUNICATIONS I recently read William Meyer's new book, The Image Makers: Power and Persuasion on Madison Avenue (Times Books, 1984, pages 79-82). In it he tells the stories behind many of the large…
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GOD'S UNCHANGING CHARACTER It fortifies my soul to know That though I perish, truth is so; That howsoever I stray and range Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall…
GRATITUDE: THE GREATEST VIRTUE Thankfulness leaves no room for discouragement. I once read a legend of a man who found the barn where Satan kept his seeds ready to be sown in the human heart,…
PERSECUTION The stories of the martyrs down through the ages are filled with accounts of those who have come to do the Father's will or proclaim his message and who have been murdered for their…
CHANGING YOUR WAYS Some years ago I cut out a cartoon from the Dooley comic strip. It's about a seven- year-old and the toys in his room -- who all talk to each other. There's…
WISDOM FROM HELEN KELLER I believe that we can live on earth according to the teachings of Jesus, and that the greatest happiness will come to the world when man obeys His commandment "Love ye…
TOWARDS A MORE COLORFUL WORLD The ten-year-old art student had just completed the painting of a stag, colored in raspberry-pink with one antler blue and one yellow. An adult visitor to the art class looked…
WORLD SERIES The Minnesota Twins' 1980 program explains the game of baseball: You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's on the side that's in goes out and…
CHEAP GIVING The world's stingiest man went Christmas shopping, but everything he saw was too expensive except a $50.00 vase that was on sale for $2.00 because the handle had been broken off. He bought…
SIMPLE RULES FOR INVESTING Don't gamble. Take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it until it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. Will Rogers,…
THE SECRET PLACE Each soul has its secret place, Where none may enter in Save it and God -- to them alone What goeth on therein is known -- To it and God alone. John…
IT'S ALL IN HOW YOU ASK A Jesuit and Dominican priest who had been boyhood friends, having gone to school together, then went into priesthood in their respective orders at the same time. Determined to…
MEETING HIM IN CHURCH I love to step inside a church, To rest, and think, and pray; The quiet, calm and holy place Can drive all cares away. I feel that from these simple walls…
I SAID A PRAYER FOR YOU TODAY I said a prayer for you today And know God must have heard -- I felt the answer in my heart Although He spoke no word! I didn't…
GETTING READY FOR RESURRECTION Richard Selzer, a surgeon at the University of Dallas Medical School, is a "craftsman with pen and scalpel." He writes "to search for meaning in the ritual of surgery, which is…
DEALING WITH THE DILEMMA According to an old legend, a man became lost in his travels and wandered into a bed of quicksand. Confucius saw the man's predicament and said, "It is evident that men…
MEDITATING ON THE CROSS There are many memorable scenes in the movie, Ben Hur. Who can forget the famous chariot race? It was exciting indeed, but the scene I can't forget is the crucifixion of…
RESURRECTION Green the grass. Ripe the bud. Yellow the flower. Blue the sky. Beautiful the butterfly. Risen the LORD!
THE RUMOR OF RESURRECTION At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh…
CRUCIAL DECISIONS On the top of a hill in a midwestern state stands a courthouse so situated that rainsdrops falling on one side of the roof travel by way of the Great Lakes into the…
