JUST TAKE IT Joey and Dennis are leaving the Wilson's house with cookies in hand. Dennis says to Joey, "Mrs. Wilson gives you a cookie because she is nice, not because you're nice." God's grace…
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PESTER OR PASTOR God offers us salvation and the forgiveness of our sins. But God's not going to force it on us. It is a gift God wants to give to us but God isn't…
THE EYE OF GOD I frequently went hunting to find solitude, relax, and enjoy God's beautiful creation. One beautiful fall morning I was stationed in a tree with a shotgun in my arms when five…
UNFRIENDLY PHONES In a recent newsletter from the GOODNEWS computer B.B.S., there was an interesting telephone conversation that was recorded. It seems some people are a little put off when they make a phone call…
SOUND ADVICE Sound travels slowly. Sometimes the things you say when your kids are teen-agers don't reach them till they're in the 40s.
OPPORTUNITIES We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
ALTERED ATTITUDES The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. William James
LAUGHING LANGUAGE Laughter translates into any language. Unknown
REPETITIOUS LOVE A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin
MARKING TIME Time marks us while we are marking time. Theodore Roethke
EXTRA DEATH If you treat every situation as a life-and-death matter, you'll die a lot of times. Dean Smith
FRIENDLY FAILURE Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. Edwin Markham
SKILL OR SMARTS Skill is successfully walking a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. Marilyn von Savant
PARENTAL DIET A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it. Frank A. Clark
OPPORTUNITY OR TEMPTATION The trouble with opportunity is that it only knocks. Temptation kicks the door in. Unknown
BUSY BENEFITS It isn't so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted.
MORE THAN FAST Baseball men will tell you that Steve Dalkowski, not Nolan Ryan or Walter Johnson, was the fastest pitcher who ever lived. There's no proof one way or the other. But there's plenty…
THE VOICE OF GOD or SPEAK LORD! Back in the days when everyone traveled by train, a little girl was traveling with her family on one of the long sleeper cars. The sleepers generally had…
FINDING FRIENDS While sitting on the church auditorium platform this past Sunday, I was looking for an opening transition to follow the soloist. As I gazed into the congregation of approximately 800 people seeking to…
JUST A HEAD START On a crowded street a motorist stopped for a red light and his rear bumper was bashed by the car behind him. He got out, looked for damage, glared at the…
