FINDING YOUR UNIQUE NICHE One day Lucy is giving a lecture to her brother, Linus, while he is standing there sucking his thumb and stroking his security blanket, observing, "You can't drift along forever .…
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DREAMS Dreams are the magical journeys, The wishes we wish on a star, The spells of enchantment We weave in our minds, Adventures that call from afar Dreams are mysterious voyages, Ships on a mystical…
10 COMMANDMENTS JUDGED UNCONSTITUTIONAL The Arizona Senate determined that the 10 Commandments are unconstitutional. Arizona's House majority leader, L. S. Adams, introduced a bill on Feb. 25, 1957, stating that "the 10 Commandments of God…
COMMUNICATION Two farmers were chatting in front of the bank. "I hear you made $60,000 in alfalfa," said the first. Not wishing to be impolite his friend replied, "Well, that isn't quite right. It wasn't…
RESPONSE TO CRANKS Gary Moore once devised an answer to take care of crank letters. "The enclosed letter," he would write, "arrived on my desk a few days ago. I am sending it to you…
PUNCTUATION It's important how you punctuate your writing. A woman who was concerned about her husband who had joined the Navy, handed a prayer request to her pastor which read: "George Bowen, having gone to…
THE VALUE OF AN EDUCATION Friend: "Has your son's education proved to be of any real value?" Father: "Yes, indeed. It has entirely cured his mother of bragging about his brains and accomplishments." From Rotary…
MEDICINE Police Sergeant: Did you bust that 18- year-old kid for selling fountain of youth pills? Officer: Yes. I did. Police Sergeant: I think you got a problem. He was arrested three times before on…
HOPE FOR THE NEW YEAR Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring…
A PASTOR'S DREAM CONGREGATION Pastor, do you ever dream about the ideal congregation? Richard Moore of Grace Presbyterian Church of Vista, California sent in these thoughts based on a familiar old Arab proverb: Friendship --…
OUR INHERITANCE I 'm not sure how excited you get about what I call tortured alliterations in sermons, but here's a set I used on the inheritance described in I Peter 1:3-4. Our inheritance is…
WIN A LITTLE, LOSE A BUNCH Several centuries ago one of the popes, who was an avid patron of the arts, is said to have surveyed the vast artistic riches he had amassed and to…
THE REAL THING It's a tough thing to have to substitute for someone else at the last minute. I heard Lane Adams tell this one when having to preach in place of Earl Palmer. It…
THANKS FOR FAMILIAR THINGS Years ago I found this simple little poem I've occasionally used on Thanksgiving. I don't know who wrote it or where I got it. I offer thanks for just familiar things…
THE TENTH COMMANDMENT -- MODERN VERSION In Sunday school one day, the subject was the Ten Commandments, and the class had gotten up to the last one. When the nun asked if anyone could state…
FROM A MAN WHO SHOULD KNOW "Business in America is impersonal. This is particularly true of large American multi-national corporations. They have no personality. The ultimate measure of success and failure of these businesses is…
THE MARVELOUS POWER OF AN ATTENTIVE EAR Great-Uncle George, who was in his 80's, wandered across the street to chat with a neighbor until dinner time. Considerably overdue when he returned, Uncle George explained without…
SUMMING UP ON MOTHER A Dennis the Menace cartoon shows Dennis being tucked into bed by his Mom. He asks her, "How did God know I wanted you for my mother?"
COMPARISONS In 1930 Babe Ruth earned $80,000 -- a huge sum in those days. When asked if he thought it was fair that he receive more than President Hoover, he said, "Well, I had a…
HYPROCRISY Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. La Rochefoucauld
