LIFE CHANGE "Alexander Solzhenitsyn tells of a time in the Siberian prison when he was weary from hard labor, weak from a starvation diet, and in pain from an untreated illness. He was being forced…
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GOD'S BEST Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best. God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take…
CHANGING OURSELVES Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. By Leo Tolstoy
NAME THAT CHANGE I have become a little older since I saw you last, and a few changes have come into my life since then. Frankly, I have become a frivolous old gal. I am…
CHANGED LIVES TV host Merv Griffin was interviewing Charlton Heston on his television program. Heston is, of course, the actor who played the part of Moses in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS and also starred in BEN…
TRUTH CHANGES People cannot change truth, but truth can change people.
PICK IT UP YOURSELF Murphy's Law reads, "if anything can go wrong, it will." But someone said, "Murphy was an optimist." In 1916, Georgia Tech University in Atlanta played a football game against Cumberland University,…
CHANGE BETTER THAN PROOF Changing one thing for the better does more good than proving a dozen things are wrong. From Speakers Sourcebook II, edited by Eleanor Doan, published by Zondervan, 1968
WRONG WEIGHT AS WELL There is a story about a woman who had been trying for years to persuade her egotistical husband to put an end to the idea that he and he alone was…
WIND OF REVIVAL Dr. G. Campbell Morgan once said: "We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again."…
MAKING HEADWAY There is a story from Borneo that illustrates how rumors get started. The story is that the island's richest inhabitant, the sultan of Brunei was afraid his country's oil reserves were running out.…
LITTLE WORTH REMEMBERING Consider this paradox: Almost everything that is publicly said these days is recorded. Almost nothing of what is said is worth remembering. Ted Koppel, on receiving the "Broadcaster of the Year Award,"…
PLAY IT AGAIN One of the longest piano compositions is "Vexation" by Erik Satie - the whole performance lasts 18 hours, 40 minutes. The first reported public performance, in September, 1963 in New York City's…
VICTIMS OF SIN People who do not believe in sin are already well on their way to being its victim. Jerry Falwell, Autobiography, Strength for the Journey, pg. 25
WHO AM I? I imagine some of you have seen this riddle before. I have seen it a couple of times before receiving a copy of it from my Grandmother Emma Luckey who lives in…
AT YOUR AGE A father was scolding his teenage son for being lazy. "You ought to be ashamed," he said. "When Lincoln was your age, he was busy building rail fences. You won't even do…
CAN'T PUT IT BACK A little child asked a man to pick a flower for her. That was simple enough, so he did. But when he had done so, she said to him, "now put…
THE CHARIOTEER Brian Larson of Leadership Journal suggested to Ernest Pettry that he send this illustration to us. Many of our illustrations come by recommendation of Leadership Journal and Christianity Today. Our thanks to the…
GOD'S NAME IN SPAIN Our first grader Ben came home from public school with the following story. He said that classmate Bobby had been using God's name the wrong way. He said his teacher finally…
STANDING IN THE NEED OF PRAISE Our four year old daughter Jenny was in the back seat having a good old time singing to herself. Here's the song I heard: "It's not my brother, not…
