WOULDN'T IT JUST BE LIKE GOD? A lady was having a broken hip set when with no warning she experienced a cardiac arrest. The doctors were able to bring her back to life and the…
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CUT IT OUT One continues to be dismayed at the tendency of many preachers to implicate friends and loved ones in their sermons. A minister in apparent innocence and in a mood of open confession…
PROGRESS "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw
BOOMERANG Eight-year-old Christopher Haynes from Peterborough, England, threw a bottle into the surf at Sheringham with a message inside asking for a pen pal. A few weeks later he received a reply from a Dutch…
GREAT ACTING Over the years I've gotten lot of compliments about my role as Helen Keller, but I think the one that means the most was what my son Mack said after he saw the…
PERSPECTIVE The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind -- a pretty uncomfortable thought. Particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house. Woody Allen, as quoted in Campbell's Notebook
COFFEE-BREAK I don't want to say he's stupid, but his boss won't give him a coffee break because it takes too long to retrain him!
STANDBY Airline procedures really haven't changed much in the past 85 years. On their historic flight Orville got a seat -- and Wilbur was on standby. Readers Digest
KINDNESS is like snow: it makes beautiful anything it covers. Van Vert
NEUTRALITY The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality. Dante
AGREEMENT Watch out when someone says they agree with you in principle. It usually means they're getting ready to argue.
FROM P.O.W. TO THEOLOGIAN Jurgen Moltmann, professor of theology at the University of Tubingen, may well be one of the most influential Protestant theologians in the world today. Lecturing to Army chaplains and German pastors…
CROSSING AT THE NARROWEST PLACE A fine Christian woman came to me years ago after a high-powered evangelist had just been in our community. He had had a dramatic conversion from alcoholism late in life,…
CHAIN OF CONVERSION In 1855 a Sunday School teacher named Kimbell led a 19-year-old shoe clerk to Jesus Christ. He in turn became a Sunday School teacher leading other youth to Christ. Later he became…
THE TRACT IN OYSTER'S MOUTH A professional diver said he had in his house what would probably strike a visitor as a very strange chimney ornament -- the shells of an oyster holding fast a…
WHAT DO YOU CALL? Small boy: "Dad, what is a religious traitor?" Father: "A person who leaves our church and joins another." Boy: "And what is a person who leaves another church and joins ours?"…
THE BIBLE'S ROLE IN CONVERSION The true story of the "Mutiny on the Bounty" has often been retold. One part that deserves retelling was the transformation wrought by one book. Nine mutineers with six native…
PRAYER TO CHANGE A middle-eastern mystic said this: "I was a revolutionary when I was young and all my prayer to God was: 'Lord, give me the energy to change the world.' As I approached…
TY COBB Then there is Ty Cobb, that all-time great who played 3,303 games and for 12 years led the American League in batting average. For four years, he batted over 400. On his death…
COLONEL SANDERS FOUND THE SECRET In his autobiography, Col. Harland Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame, says that he was always a God-fearing man. In every venture he gave God a tenth of his profits.…
