KEEPING PROBLEMS AWAY Andy Capp walks home from the pub arm in arm with a friend, singing "Dear-old-pals". As he enters his house, he calls out, "Yoo-hoo! It's me-" And then passes out on the…
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KILLING WORDS Quick, careless words slaughter more spirits and lay open wounds (that are slow to heal) than guns, knives or automobile accidents combined. There is more suffering from unloving words [that may or may…
ALIGNING WILLS Prayer is surrender - surrender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boat-hook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do…
PAVE WHERE THEY WALK A leading architect once built a cluster of office buildings set in a central green. The landscape crew asked him where he wanted the sidewalks between the buildings. His reply: "Just…
A FEW GOOD MEN AND WOMEN I heard the story recently of the president of a Fortune 500 corporation who was so impressed by a book entitled Men and Women of God that he called…
IDOL CHALK Missionary Phil Brewster paused to examine the piece of chalk one of his Filipino seminary extension students handed him. Because it seemed different from the kind bought in a store, he asked the…
HIS ONLY WEAKNESS An ancient story from the fourth century tells of inexperienced demons finding great difficulty in tempting a godly hermit. They lured him with every manner of temptation, but he could not be…
THINK SMALL AND DIE One summer as I was packing to spend three months with relatives at the lake up north, my dad said, "Take the gold fish with you. I don't want to take…
LOVING GOD I spent 7 years of my life devoting the majority of my free time to playing the saxophone. I didn't do that because I was musically talented. I didn't do that because I…
ON THE LOSING SIDE I like the story about the ten-year-old boy who answered the doorbell at his home one day. When he opened it, there stood a strange man on the porch. The man…
OVERTIME BRAIN In Jack Elrod's comic strip, "The Ryatts," Winky, the youngest boy, comes into the kitchen for breakfast rubbing his eyes as if he was having a hard time waking up. Mom asks: "Are…
THE RIGHT DOG LIMPS A new sign, "Puppies for sale," had just gone up on the pet shop window when a small lad walked in. "How much are they?" the young customer asked. "This is…
MAYBE NO ONE WILL CARE When the late Channing Pollock, the playwright, was a child, he was taken by his parents to a party. A little girl was present. The children played together until they…
FALL GUYS We need good sight to avoid being fall guys. Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something we shall…
NEW DADDY WANTED Some time ago, I took my family to the bicycle store to purchase a bike for five-year-old Jenna. She picked out a shiny "Starlett" with a banana seat and training wheels. And…
AFRAID TO HURT DAD There were two young men who were toying with doing something wrong that would be disapproved of by their fathers. One of them finally decided he could not go along. The…
THE UNFINISHED TASK A powerful story is told of Leonardo da Vinci. One day in his studio he started to work on a large canvas, He labored over it, carefully choosing the subject, arranging the…
CONGREGATIONAL UNIQUENESS People live most of their waking hours under the constant pressure to perform. Their jobs tell them what they must do, the sales quotas they must meet, the work hours they must log,…
THE RESCUE MISSION Reverend Elton "Salvation" Jones Dear Friend, Perhaps you have heard of me and my nationwide campaign in the cause of temperance. Each year for the past fourteen, I have had a tour…
SOCIETY OF SKINNED KNEES John Claypool tells a great parable about the Christian life. It's a story about a peasant who lived in a village at the foot of mountain range. On the side of…
