I'VE BEEN A SPORTSFAN ALL MY LIF E... Football in the fall... Basketball in the winter... Baseball in the spring and summer... BUT I'LL NEVER GO TO ANOTHER GAME BECAUSE... they always asked me for…
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LEADERS OR BABIES In "The Last Days Newsletter," Leonard Ravenhill tells about a group of tourists visiting a picturesque village who walked by an old man sitting beside a fence. In a rather patronizing way,…
WALLET WOUNDS A Scotsman caught a Taxi and they were hit by another car. The door flew open and the Scot was thrown to the pavement, bleeding and in great pain. The cab driver jumped…
THE MAN IN THE GLASS When you get what you want in your struggle for self And the world makes you king for a day, Just go to a mirror and look at yourself And…
EMPTY WORDS "...I am not so wicked after all. I swear and you pray, but neither of us mean anything by it". From Bears, Bibles and a Boy by Jessie David Roberts
THE FIFTH PEW No one ever sat on the fifth pew. Usually this didn't cause any problems except on Christmas and Mother's Day when attendance was greater than normal. And on those days, no one…
DISCOURAGED BY DECEPTION During the siege of Milan in the twelfth century, the inhabitants filled grain bags with sand and used them to reinforce the battlements. The besiegers under the German Emperor, Barbarossa, thought the…
THE SICKNESS WAS SWALLOWED A medical missionary, serving in Egypt, was distressed that the people he served and had grown to love were suffering from a strange anemia. Medical efforts to relieve the suffering and…
CLOSED DOOR TO UNWELCOME GUESTS David Johnston of Savage, Minnesota recently wrote to tell us of a personal encounter with a creature of the furry kind. David returned home and was greeted by his son…
HEALTHY SELF-IMAGE DEFINED A healthy self-image is "seeing yourself as God sees you - no more and no less." In other words, a healthy self-image means having a realistic view of ourselves from God's perspective,…
A TOUGHER SERMON If you think practicing what you preach is hard, try preaching what you practice. From Dr. Richard Dobbins at a recent ministers retreat, as reported by Editor James R. Swanson in The…
A CLASS OF BALD HEADS Mark Lowry is a student at Cross Lutheran School of Yorkville, Illinois. He was recently diagnosed as having lukemia. It is expected that during his treatments, he will lose his…
THE KISS THAT MADE AN ARTIST Benjamin West, a British artist tells how he became an artist. One day his mother went out, leaving him in charge of his little sister Sally. In his mother's…
REVEALING RESUMES Kenneth Eskey of the Scripps Howard News Service recently interviewed Robert Half of Accountemps of Menlo Park, California. Robert Half has an unusual collection of strange information which was included in job resumes.…
THE BELIEVER'S NEW PERSPECTIVE Through union with Christ, though dead in sin, I have been made alive and joined with all others who believe in the Resurrection of Jesus. Now we are seated in heavenly…
ALL MEN FRAUDS All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. H.L. Mencken, quoted by Bill Husted in "Glitterati" in The Rocky Mountain News, December…
BEAUTIFUL DOMINOES Rick Yohn tells of watching a young man on television who had set up an complex arrangement of dominoes. At the determined moment, he set the first one in motion. Over the course…
BUT I DO HAVE FRIENDS A mother was enrolling her six-year old son in kindergarten. The teacher, following the usual formula, brought out her records and began to ask questions. "Does the boy have any…
POSITIVE WORD CAN CURE Daniel C. Steere tells of a friend who had plenty of money, was a good man, a company executive and a good family - he had it all. In the midst…
NOT SO FAST or NOT SO FAT Steve Hodgin of Elkins, Arkansas recently sent a clipping of an article from Associated Press by Mary MacVean: "Fatter People Fight Back Against Discrimination." Mary MacVean writes concerning…
