PARTING SHOT When your children stop asking where they came from and start refusing to tell you where they are going, you know they're growing up. Corner Stones
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OUT OF TROUBLE Around the turn of the century, young Clarence took his girlfriend for an outing and picnic lunch at a nearby lake. He was dressed in a suit with a high collar. She…
PERSPECTIVE God has created a world in which many more good things than bad things happen. We find life's disasters upsetting not only because they are painful but because they are exceptional. Most people wake…
JARGON COMMUNICATION We always try to keep our Field Sales personnel updated as to what is going on in the Food Service industry. This includes not only reporting what has happened but trying to predict…
WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG A young soldier was learning to parachute. He was given the following instructions: (A) Jump when you are told; (B) Count ten and pull the ripcord; (C) In the very unlikely…
SMILE W.C. Fields said: "Smile first thing in the morning and get it over with."
PERSPECTIVE Suppose a little boy looks through the knothole of a fence to see a parade. If he sees a clown pass by, he's tickled. If he sees a lion, he's afraid. If there's a…
MIRACLES Some years ago, the book The Song of Bernadette, was topping sales in bookstores everywhere and later it was made into a popular movie. There is a story behind how the book was written…
PERSPECTIVE Albert Einstein's secretary once asked him to explain to her the theory of relativity. He replied, "Two hours with a beautiful woman seems like two minutes. Two minutes on a hot stove seems like…
OVERCOMING CIRCUMSTANCES Bunyan wrote Pilgrim's Progress from jail. Florence Nightingale, too ill to move from her bed, reorganized the hospitals of England. Semi-paralyzed and under the constant menace of apoplexy, Pasteur was tireless in his…
NO PROBLEM TOO BIG In one of the Peanuts comic strips, Charlie Brown says, "There's no problem so big that I can't run away from it."
DILEMMA FOR THE TRULY HUMBLE Two men died and waited at the Pearly Gates for admission into heaven. "We've got room for only one more," Saint Peter declared. "Which one of you is more humble?"…
THE REAL CHURCH IN ACTION In a recent article in Christianity Today, Charles Colson tells of a recent radio interview he did in Dallas, while on a book tour. He ran into some typical "Christian…
JOY IN RELIGION Let there by joy in religion. Too often it has had a dour countenance. Some men went to pick up the visiting minister, whom they had never met, from the station. Going…
CHASING A DREAM A few years ago, one of America's leading newspapers did a study on the perils of middle age. It was the story of two men struggling with the recognition that life was…
WHAT TO FEAR "Fear not that your life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning." Cardinal Newman
BEING A CHRISTIAN Going into a church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going into a chicken house makes you a chicken. Seasonings for Sermons, by John Krahn
THE REAL BATTLE? The president of a well- known parachurch organization that helps bring about discipleship and renewal in church congregations was sitting through a long, exhausting meeting as one of the leaders of another…
ANGRY CHURCH MOB CAPTURES GUNMAN An angry crowd of about 100 chased a gunman who had fired a shot inside a church, caught up with him a few blocks away and threw rocks and bricks…
COMPASSION is your pain in my heart. Seasonings for Sermons, Barnhart
