PLACE OR TEMPERATURE Our church is located in the town of San Luis Obispo, California - about 200 miles north of Los Angeles. Two younger brothers were overheard talking about the temperature one day. The…
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THE DANGER OF COMPLACENCY On February 25, 1991 a SCUD missile hit an American Army barracks in Saudi Arabia, killing 28 and wounding 90. Was the Iraqi technology so good that they could pinpoint the…
RACING THE CLOCK A survey by the Metropolitan Chicago Information Center reports that 40 percent of 3,000 area residents questioned say they have less free time than a year ago. And a Hilton Time Values…
EVERYONE DIES I 've done the research, and I hate to tell you, but everybody dies - lovers, joggers, vegetarians and nonsmokers. I'm telling you this so that some of you who jog at 5…
HEARTLESS OR WORDLESS PRAYERS In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words, than words without the heart.
WRONG FLOOR A woman visited a psychiatrist and said, "You've got to come help my husband. He has delusions and thinks he's an elevator." "Bring him in to see me," replied the psychiatrist, " and…
SAY "SORRY" AND MEAN IT Coming home for lunch, I found that my three year old daughter Jenny had been sent to her room for disobedience. My wife had explained to her that she could…
CHARGE FOR HAPPINESS The world's wisdom tells us that when you come to the realization that money can't buy happiness, it's time to get some credit cards.
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Because ministers have to spend so much of their time in hospitals and among the sick, they may benefit from this helpful guide I received from a nurse in my church: Medical Terminology for the…
UNSEEN SYPTOMS A woman was so certain that she had an incurable liver condition that she went to the doctor to find out about it. The doctor assured her she was alright. "You wouldn't know…
B.C. FULLY DESCRIBED My friend is a rather old-fashioned lady, quite elegant and delicate, especially in her language. She and her husband were planning a week-long camping trip, so she wrote to a campground for…
GOOD SAMARITAN / MODERN VERSION A certain elderly woman went down from Washington to Richmond and ran over a spike, which punctured her tire and left her stranded by the side of the road. After…
UNDELIVERED PIZZA Two businessmen were flying from Cleveland to Minneapolis. As they flew over Chicago, one of the men picked up the air phone and ordered a pizza. The other fellow next to him asked…
MAY TAKE LONGER Alfred Adler, a famous psychologist, once put an ad in the paper for his Fourteen-Day Cure Plan. He claimed that he could cure anyone of any mental or emotional difficulty in just…
PEACE DOWN DEEP Consider the hurricane. On the surface of the sea the violent winds wreck absolute havoc and chaos. Yet a mere twenty-five feet below, the waters are clear and calm, the little fish…
A SPRIRITUAL WALL REMAINS The Letter was Dated: December 1989 (not long after the tearing down of the Berlin wall): "I am learning so much from this in the spiritual realm too. As I said…
EVERY JOB Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence!
OUTNUMBER THE FISH A Dennis the Menace cartoon pictures Dennis fishing from a boat with his father. There are no fish in the boat. Dennis makes an observation, "It looks like we have the fish…
A STRONG FOUNDATION In San Francisco it has been discovered that frame houses stand up better against earthquakes than any other types of construction. It has further been noted that those frame houses that are…
MISSING THE MARK "When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -…
