INCARNATION For 18 years Dian Fossey, the California-born zoologist, worked with gorillas on the continent of Africa. Working in the Virunga Mountains, located in the nation of Rwanda, she separated herself from civilization and those,…
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HOW SOON THEY LEARN Charles L. Ammons, Methodist pastor from Belle Haven, Virginia, sent in this true event which he personally observed. He was in seminary at the time and was visiting the Kindergarten class…
INCARNATION When Jesus came to Golgatha they hanged Him on a tree, They drove great nails through hands and feet and made a Calvary; They crowned Him with a crown of thorns; red were His…
EXACERBATING THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD At SS. Peter and Paul our day started with prayers. We stood at attention in mass formation and began by making the sign of the cross, following the example of…
AUTHENTICITY -- THE REAL ME A woman got on an elevator in a tall office building. There was just one other person in the elevator, a handsome man. She pushed the button for her floor…
A FLEXIBLE BIAS A woman who was called to jury duty told the presiding judge that she was not qualified to serve because she did not believe in capital punishment. The judge said, "You don't…
REPRESSED SIN WILL FIND A WAY OUT When her daughters were very small girls, Mrs. Dwight Morrow gave a high tea at which one of the guests was to be the senior J. P. Morgan.…
ON ONE CONDITION Michael Christopher's play "The Black Angel" tells the story of Herman Engel, a German general during World War II. He was sentenced by the Nuremberg Court to thirty years in prison for…
AGAPE LOVE Agape love is the love of T. E. McCully, father of Ed McCully, one of the missionaries slain by Auca Indians in Equador, who one night shortly after that experience prayed, "Lord, let…
FORGIVING AND FORGETTING Several years ago, Coach Joe Paterno and his Penn State football team were playing for the national championship against Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. They probably would have won, but they had…
THE GREAT HUNGER FOR FORGIVENESS The story is told in Spain of a father and his teenage son who had a relationship that had become strained. So the son ran away from home. His father,…
CONVERSION J.C. Penney was a man of advanced years before he committed his life fully to Jesus Christ. He was a good man, honest, but primarily interested in becoming a success and making money. "When…
GUIDENCE Did you see the line in the Readers Digest some time back about the sign on the back of a trailer: "If I'm not headed west stop me and turn me around."
ASSUME THE SAFEST POSITION George Adam Smith tells us that he was once climbing the Weisshorn above the Zermatt Valley with two guides on a stormy day. They had made the ascent on the sheltered…
KIDS AND MONEY Proud Father: "My kid makes the money the old fashioned way." Other Father: "Like Smith, Barney?" Proud Father: "No, he borrows it and doesn't pay it back." Funny Funny World 90069
KIDS The cares of the world evidently rest heavily on the shoulders of the very young. Pat Meehan, a lifeguard at Pismo Beach, asked a young man named Harold how old he was. Harold sighed…
WHAT MOTHER WANTS MOST An eight-year- old was being interviewed on TV. The child came from a large family in which mother got up first, got the children off to school, got the father off…
THE LOCUS CLASSICUS In closing, I guess my favorite stewardship story is the one about the pastor who got up at the beginning of the huge stewardship rally, held his hands up for silence and…
GETTING THE MESSAGE ACROSS There's a story that once a constituent wrote to Truman, asking the meaning of the Post Office motto: "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers…
COMMUNICATING TRUTH THROUGH THE FAMILY TREE A Sunday School teacher asked a group of children in her class, "Why do you believe in God?" In reporting some of the answers the teacher confessed that the…
