AERIAL PRAYER ASSAULT On February 24, 1991, a lightning ground offensive was launched by the U.S. and allied forces in the Persian Gulf War. Its effectiveness shattered the defending Iraqi forces. Within days the world's…
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OVERCOMING OBSTACLES Some of the world's greatest men and women have been saddled with disabilities and adversities but have managed to overcome them. Cripple him, and you have a Sir Walter Scott. Lock him in…
Dutch proverb: "God cures and the doctor gets the money."
THOUGHTS CONCERNING BATTLE I repeated my thoughts to my wife, but she said it was not difficult to understand about battlefields: The blood of the men killed on the field, and the bodies buried there,…
HEMMINGWAY'S LONELY VACUUM Pain is often the sign that prayers are being answered. Ernest Hemmingway at the peak of his career said, "I live in a vacuum that is as lonely as a radio tube…
MISSING A LOSER One night at a basketball banquet the president of a junior college was congratulating the coach and the team profusely. The beaming coach asked the president, "Would you still like me as…
POSITIONED TO LIVE It is difficult to receive when your fists are clenched. It is impossible to embrace when your arms are crossed. It is difficult to see when your eyes are closed. It is…
TEENAGE SEXUALITY Conducted Nation-wide was one of the largest studies ever done of young people with a plus or minus factor of error of less than 3 percent and this is what it showed. By…
THE DOG DID IT! A little boy was playing in the living room one day. He accidently broke a vase - one that his mother treasured greatly. He knew that she would be angry. He…
CALL SIN "SIN" "The most important thing is to keep on, not to be dismayed however often one yields to the temptation, but always to pick yourself up again and ask forgiveness," He (C.S. Lewis)…
REDEEMING LOVE EXTENDED She sits in the darkness, weeping. I weep too, wanting so much to unlock her heart. She clutches the key so tightly. So why do I sit patiently, yet silently beside her…
PARALYZING FEAR In Philippians 1:28 the Apostle Paul encourages us not to be frightened by those who would oppose us. The word he uses (ptyromenoi) actually has the sense of an overwhelming panic, likened to…
Television/Violence/Murder/Children/Behavior Influence/Media/Movies: TERRORIZED BY TELEVISION Five years ago Purdue University researcher Glenn Sparks surveyed five to seven year old kids in suburban Cleveland. Twenty percent said they'd seen "Friday the 13th"; 48 percent had seen…
TO FORGIVE HITLER At Maidenak, Poland, Nazis ran a death camp for Jews. After the war, a Jewish girl named Golda came to work with abandoned German children. Golda had lost her entire family at…
REFUSAL TO KNEEL Lord Ponsonby, a 19th-century English diplomat, was famed for his imperturbable manners, tact and quick wit. Once when the Sultan of Turkey felt that the diplomatic corps in which Ponsonby served did…
LIFESTYLE EVANGELISM Live so that when you tell someone you are a Christian, it confirms their suspicions instead of surprises them.
PRIDE Swallow your pride occasionally. It's nonfattening.
PRIDE Pride is the only disease that makes everyone sick, except the one who has it.
INTELLECTUAL PRIDE An intellectual is someone who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
LIMITED STOCKING UP From an ad for color film in the Akron Beacon Journal: "Stock up and save. Limit ONE."
