GO ON, GOING ON In 1934 in Northfield, Massachusetts, Elliott Speer, headmaster of Mt. Hermon School, had been shot and killed one night by an unknown person and the mysterious murder has never yet been…
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IT'S A GIFT Sugar Ray Leonard was invited to speak at Harvard. He said: "I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beatin'…
RAISING FUNDS Rev. Michael Mitchell, Vicar for Temporal Affairs of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose (California), was commenting on plans to spend $1.8 million for renovation and construction of the Old St. Joseph's…
MOTHER, TOP PAY The kids are fighting. I have my hands over my ears again. It's summer, hot, but fall is coming and winter is closing in. I will spend the days ahead heating soup,…
VARIETIES OF POVERTY Rudyard Kipling once advised a group of students not to make money, power or fame their goals. For one day they would meet a man who did not care for any of…
ONE DAY AT A TIME One day Dwight Morrow and his wife, the parents of Anne Lindbergh, were in Rugby, England. After wandering through the streets, they realized that they had lost their way. At…
POVERTY PERSPECTIVE In Hollywood, there is an exclusive school attended by children of movie stars, producers and directors. Asked to write a composition on the subject of poverty, one little girl started her literary piece:…
HAVE THE WORLD Mark Hopkins once put this question to his class: "You would like to have the world -- as much of it, at least, as you want. Would you be willing to have…
STEWARDSHIP -- THE SPIRIT OF GIVING God made the sun -- it gives heat, light, guidance. God made the moon -- it gives tidal pull, moonbeams, decoration. God made the stars -- they give beauty,…
THE EIGHT LEVELS OF GIVING Whoever gives to the poor but with bad grace. Whoever gives with a good grace, but not enough. Whoever gives enough, but only after being asked. Whoever gives without being…
DESIGNATED GIVING The congregation was taking up a special collection to add to the salaries of pastors who received very inadequate salaries because they worked in very small churches who simply couldn't pay more. On…
HIGH TECH STEWARDSHIP I read of one pastor who perceived the whole concept of encouragement from a financial point of view. He announced one Sunday that he had made a new offering box for the…
LET THE CHURCH WALK, PASTOR, LET HER WALK! One Sunday morning the pastor encouraged his congregation to consider the potential of the church. He told them, "With God's help we can see the day when…
STEWARDSHIP-A DIFFERENT VIEW OF TITHING I heard a great story (true) the other day about new definitions of tithing. One of our members, Cliff Beggs, used to work in fund raising. He told me about…
WHAT'S A GRANDMOTHER? BY A THIRD GRADER A grandmother is a lady who has no children of her own. She likes other people's little girls and boys. A grandfather is a man grandmother. He goes…
UNIQUENESS We need to treasure our uniqueness. Even those aspects of uniqueness that don't always fit in. I saw this illustrated in a cartoon that showed the foreman of a jury at the door of…
CHILDREN Our children are the only possession we can take to Heaven.
GIFT OF WHAT Anne Herbert writes a column in The Next Whole Earth Catalogue. She was a preacher's kid and makes these profound observations out of her experience as a PK-which she calls, "The Truth…
TALENTS A hot-headed woman told John Wesley, "My talent is to speak my mind." Replied Mr. Wesley, "Woman, God wouldn't care a bit if you would bury that talent." Christian Communications Laboratory.
THE GIFT OF IMAGINATION In Berkeley, near the campus of the University of California, there's a place where the ramp goes up the freeway. Just about the time vacations begin that ramp is loaded with…
