LEADERSHIP PROVERBS Wise Christians resolve conflicts quickly, fools choose up sides for a church fight.
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LEADERSHIP PROVERBS Fasting and prayer sensitize the spirit, feasting and revelry dull the soul.
LEADERSHIP PROVERBS Obey Christ and life is full of joy and purpose, disobey God and life is full of pain and confusion.
LEADERSHIP PROVERBS Administer well and you save time, administer poorly and it takes all your time.
LEADERSHIP PROVERBS God's Word penetrates, re-creates and motivates, empty human words complicate, misstate and deviate.
LEADERSHIP PROVERBS Better a poor man with faith in Christ than a rich fool with confidence in money. From The Encourager, Friends Church, Charles Mylander
BLIND (BUT CORDIAL) ZEAL A young soldier on armed sentry duty for the first time had orders not to allow any cars onto the military base unless it bore a special identification seal. The first…
IF WE HAD JUST A GRAIN OF GOD'S PATIENCE According to a traditional Hebrew story, Abraham was sitting outside his tent one evening when he saw an old man, weary from age and journey, coming…
PRAYER In the United States of America, we associate the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with "state of the art" technology. However, during a news conference from the space shuttle in 1984, a recorded message…
THE LAST WORD ON SOME LAST WORDS I don't know how theological this one is, but Leonard Sweet found it: "Nonsense, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist. . ." (Last words of John…
ALL STONES UNTURNED Jesus left all stones unturned as far as throwing them at others was concerned. Thomas John Carlisle, from Alive Now, March/April 1988
A DEAL YOU CAN'T REFUSE The story is told (though not fully authenticated), that some years back Colonel Sanders went to Rome and arranged for private audience with the Pope. When he finally got him…
PICK YOUR WORDS WITH CARE The Wall Street Journal once paraphrased "Give us this day our daily bread" in legal contract language: "We respectively petition, request, and entreat that due and adequate provision be made,…
SO AS NOT TO OFFEND The Washington, D.C. comic, Mark Russell, warns of requiring prayer in the public schools and of finding a prayer that fits everyone's religious background. He suggests the following generic prayer:…
THE OUTER LIMITS OF EXPERTISE We may be like the guide who was hired by some hunters to take them into the backwoods of Maine. After some days, they became hopelessly lost and quite naturally…
THE POWER OF AFFIRMATION Sometimes the touch of love is more verbal than physical. Sherman Rogers has written a book about logging in the Pacific Northwest. As a young man he worked in a logging…
PRACTICALITY A student of literature was hoping to become a poet someday. His literary hero was the renowned poet, T.S. Eliot. When the student graduated from Harvard, he went to see Eliot and asked him…
ATTITUDES Some unknown person has written An Autobiography in Five Chapters, each chapter representing a different attitude. Chapter One I walk down the street, There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in.…
CUTTING Film maker Walt Disney was ruthless in cutting anything that got in the way of a story's pacing. Ward Kimball, one of the animators for Snow White recalls working 240 days on a 4…
EVANGELISM During one service I was complaining to the Lord about the lack of attendance: "Lord, attendance is just not what I'd like it to be." This was the Lord's response: "My son, attendance is…
