WOMEN IN MINISTRY United Methodist Bishop Leontine Kelly was serving a local church early in her ministry when she met an older gentleman who said he had heard good things about her pastoral ministry. But,…
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CHILD'S VIEW As a minister, I conduct many baptismal services. My denomination baptizes in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. One Sunday, my family and I went to a friend's…
AUTHORITY The more authority one has the easier it is to be gracious. The more power one has the easier it is to be kind. God is secure in HIs power, as it is abolute…
IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT -- THINGS ARE TOUGH Henry was looking so glum and depressed that a friend asked: "Henry, what's the matter with you? You look like you've lost your last friend." Henry…
STEWARDSHIP At our church youth camp we were working hard on the theme of 'stewardship'. The campers were working hard to memorize II Cor. 9:7, "Each man should give what he has decided in his…
TOO LITTLE If you happen to live in a city apartment, you may appreciate how tough [drug czar] Bill Bennett's new job is. It's really equivalent to being a cockroach czar. And the budget for…
SALTY CHRISTIANS At a missionary meeting some young people were discussing the text, "Ye are the salt of the earth." One suggestion after another was made as to the meaning of salt in this verse.…
WHO'S ON YOUR WALL? It was Thursday night, and I was sitting in my favorite chair, reading the latest edition of Sports Illustrated. As usual, the first place that I turned to was the Scorecard…
NOT QUITE READY TO QUIT People ask me why I'm still playing, like what an idiot I am. I say, "Would you ask the third-best doctor in the world why he's still a doctor?" Chris…
BELIEF AND ACTIONS A truth seeker once said to Pascal: "I wish I had your creed so that I could live your kind of life." Pascal snapped back, "Start living my kind of life, and…
SPECIAL DISEASE The fellow who wasn't feeling very well says he isn't much improved since he visited his physician and "my doctor told me there wasn't anything strange about my condition except that it was…
A SET OF RELATIONSHIPS Elizabeth O'Conner, in Journey Inward, Journey Outward, speaks of our need for three types of relationships. We need those who are further along the way, who give us hints of the…
TRIUMPH OVER TRAGEDY In Iona Henry McLaughlin's book, Triumph Over Tragedy, she tells of her struggle to find purpose and meaning in her life following the death of her daughter Jane to a brain tumor,…
INDIVIDUALITY Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you. The mould in which a key is…
HOW DO I LOVE YOU? I love you; not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you. I love you; not only for what you have made of…
REALLY LIVING No man has earned the right to intellectual ambition until he has learned to lay his course by a star which he has never seen -- to dig by the divining rod for…
AN ANSWER TO A MOTHER'S PRAYER At one point during the winter of 1940, my husband, a house painter, was temporarily unemployed because of the weather, and the textile plant where I worked was closed…
TO KNOW CHRIST A dialogue between a recent convert to Christ and an unbelieving friend: "So you have been converted to Christ?" "Yes." "Then you must know a great deal about him. Tell me: what…
THE LEAST OF THESE In 1892 the ten Booms had a fifth child (one child died in infancy). To the impoverished family, already burdened with debts, illness, and uncertain living arrangements, the arrival of a…
IT BOILS DOWN TO PEOPLE I guess I'd rather be famous than infamous, but actually money and fame and the rest of it don't impress me much. About all that really impresses me is human…
