A PRAYER FOR TODAY Our Father Who art in heaven, Where it's quieter than it is at home. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, But meanwhile we parents need help. Give us this day…
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THOREAU -- LIVING DELIBERATELY I went (to Walden Pond) because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,…
PRAYER OF HUMILITY Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of Thee; Thou only knowest what I need . . . I simply present myself before Thee, I open my heart to Thee.…
BABES IN THE LORD Not too long ago, on a chilly Saturday morning, I was sitting watching my son play in a soccer game. I don't know how many of you have seen a wild…
FORGIVENESS At my church, after the prayer of confession and the assurance of pardon the worship leader says, "In Christ's name, you are forgiven" and the congregation responds, "In Christ's name, you are forgiven." One…
WHERE IS YOUR CHURCH? A good many years ago when I was a young beginning minister I had the following experience. I had just worked very hard to find a nice house of worship for…
SERVANTHOOD Nothing is more refreshing than a servant's heart and a giving spirit, especially when we see them displayed in a person many would tag as a celebrity. A couple of years ago my wife…
BE A RISK TAKER "Don't make the mistake of confusing what a big company will tolerate with what it rewards. "Taking the safe road, doing your job, and not making waves may not get you…
LIVING ON THE BURNING EDGE - THE LESSON OF THE MOTH I was talking to a moth the other evening. He was trying to break into an electric light bulb and fry himself on the…
A COURAGEOUS WOMAN In 1921, Lewis Lawes became the warden at Sing Sing Prison. No prison was tougher than Sing Sing during that time. But when Warden Lawes retired twenty some years later, that prison…
BRAVE VISION Some first grade students were asked to come to the front of the class and tell the others what they were going to be when they grew up. One little girl said she…
THE NEED FOR PERFECTION It is no disgrace to Christianity, it is no disgrace to any great religion, that its counsels of perfection have not made every single person perfect. If, after centuries, a disparity…
HIGH PRICE OF SPECIALIZATION Do you remember the story of Henry Ford and Charlie Steinmetz? Steinmetz was a dwarf, ugly and deformed, but he had one of the greatest minds in the field of electricity…
FREEDOM The primary principle of Christian ethics and Christian politics must be respect for every person simply as a person. If each man and woman is a child of God, whom God loves and for…
HOT LINE I enjoy the tale of a conversation between former Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel and President Ronald Reagan during one of Begin's visits to America. Begin questioned the president about his platinum,…
PEJAN90 THE POWERFUL SQUASH At Amherst College, researchers experimented with a squash seed that had been planted in rich, fertile soil. Eventually the seed produced a squash as big as a soccer ball. Then the…
SOMETIMES ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS BE AVAILABLE In college, we had just finished having a Bible study, and as a brand-new Christian I had noticed how Jesus lays out very firmly that if…
OPPORTUNITY In his book, "Staying Ahead of Time", Dennis E. Hensley tells a story of how opportunity- minded Henry Ford always was. One day a businessman was being given a tour of the executive offices…
RISK TAKING The story is told of a young man from the South who visited a friend in Wyoming in the middle of winter. One afternoon when the temperature was five degrees above zero, the…
MISSING THE OBVIOUS Jackie Gleason told a story of a man who would ride his little blue bicycle through a customs check point. Every day at the same time he rode up. Every time his…
