CHARACTER CRISIS Our six-year-old son Mark was thumbing through a Japanese cookbook and asked about the squiggly symbols. My husband explained that they were Japanese words, and that he couldn't read them. Mark paused and…
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UNITY WITHOUT UNIFORMITY My conclusion from studying the early Christian writings is that there was a core set of beliefs and practices that were handed down from the apostles. The early Christians accepted such beliefs…
GETTING THINGS INTO PERSPECTIVE Two Greek sculptors competed for the placing of a statue on a pillar in the public square. One worked skillfully until the statue looked almost lifelike - smoothed and polished. The…
CHANNELS OF POWER There are within the possession of every believer five outlets of power. Although there is but one source of power, and that source is the Holy Spirit, there are these five channels…
Atheism/Pagan/Condemn/Reject: HER OWN WORDS CONDEMN HER A couple of weeks ago just after Easter weekend, the atheists of America had their national convention in St. Petersburg, Florida. C-Span covered part of their convention and has…
A CASE OF PETTINESS Petty people are ugly people. They are people who have lost their vision. They are people who have turned their eyes away from what matters and focused, instead, on what doesn't…
ON A SHAKY LIMB I shall never forget a classroom setting that occurred about twenty-five years ago. As usual, I was in the front row. One of the toughest professors in graduate school tossed out…
LOVE IT IN A retarded youngster seated himself on the floor in a drugstore and began to play with some bottles he had taken from the shelves. The druggist ordered him to stop, then scolded…
BOTTOM DOLLAR A little girl walked into a country grocery and, placing an earthen jar on the counter, asked for a quarter's worth of molasses. Soon the jar was filled, and, picking it up, the…
HARMONICA CONCENTRATION Vitaly Korotich was six years old when the Nazis invaded the Ukraine. Like many Russian children, he witnessed daily atrocities that would put most people in a mental institution. He saw his father…
ON TEACHING AND BEING TAUGHT Miss Adams teaches at our school. We seldom see her smile. She is so busy teaching books, She overlooks the child. She drills and drills and drills some more. The…
THE REASON WHY I 've a halo to live up to One quite undeserved, that's true, But if someone placed a halo On your head-what would you do? Would you brush aside the brightness Of…
TALK If your mind should go blank, don't forget to turn off the sound.
FAITH Faith is not belief without proof, but trust is without reservation.
THE VANILLA SOLUTION Some years ago the president of the Pontiac Division of General Motors received the following letter: "This is the second time I've written you, and I don't blame you for not answering…
NO LEGS Elisabeth Elliot Gren tells of Judy Squier, a friend of hers who was born with out legs. She is a cheerful radiant woman who loves her Lord Jesus. Elisabeth asked Judy to write…
RESPONDING TO THE NEED The service in the tiny, east London mission had ended, and a young doctor was just about to lock the building for the night. That's when he noticed a little boy…
THE INCARNATION Through the good graces and extra funds of my in-laws, I was given an IBM computer. One of the first programs I purchased was a word processor, which turns the computer into a…
NO ENTRANCE While trying to make it to a gas station after realizing that my car was almost out of gas, I found myself stranded and short of my destination. Luckily, the car stopped in…
"SWEET" SHORT SHOT ACHIEVEMENT: The man who rows the boat generally doesn't have time to rock it. Submitted by Diana Van Dyke, from Kraft Sugar, Kraft, Inc., Dist., Glenview, IL 60025
