SPIRITUAL QUALIFICATIONS The real qualifications for ministry are spiritual, not scholastic. The Lord seems to delight in shaking up the theological world by revealing truth to unlikely candidates like A. W. Tozer, or to a…
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TEENS & THEIR CULTURE Our teenagers need to understand that they do not live in a vacuum. They live in a culture that will exercise its influence on every area of our lives. It is…
PARENTING WITH GRACE & GLORY God knows our weakness. He is aware of our sin. And he has given us glorious gifts of grace so that we can be his tools of change in our…
HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH From Sharif Abdullah, "We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit. A…
STORIES GO TO THE HEART The great Swedish film-maker Ingmar Bergman once said, "Facts go straight to the head, and stories go straight to the heart."
MEASUREMENT OF A CUP A newly wed woman called her mother and asked her a question about making a cake. "Mother, the recipe calls for a cup of sugar. Do I use a large cup…
SOMETHING MISSING The customer at the restaurant called the food server over to his table and told him that he could not eat his soup. The food server asked if there was something wrong with…
GETTING THINGS DONE & UNDONE Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. Lin Yutang
HERDING SNAILS A woman was hosting a fancy luncheon at her beach home. She was looking forward to this social event and wanted everything to be just right. Shortly before her guests were to arrive,…
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LOYALTY, SERVICE & DEVOTION Beware of anything that competes with loyalty to Jesus Christ. The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him. -- Oswald Chambers
WHO PACKS YOUR PARACHUTE? Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important. We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that…
ACTION & THOUGHT Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. -- Henri Bergson
COMMITMENT & REFLECTION Commitment without reflection is fanaticism in action . . . Reflection without commitment is the paralysis of all action. -- John Mackay
A TALKING PIG My friend likes to read his two young sons fairy tales at night. Having a deep-rooted sense of humor, he often ad-libs parts of the stories for fun. One day his youngest…
EMPTY HEADED? A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, he said, "Now, boys, if I stood on my head the blood, as you know,…
HUG TIP A little girl was standing in line at church to get a free ice cream cone on a hot summer's day. There wasn't any cost for the ice cream except a hug from…
A SURE BET Jake and Bubba flew out to Las Vegas to try their luck at the famous Las Vegas slot machines. The two men were quite aware that the trip took most of their…
MUSIC WORSE THAN DEATH A speaker at a retreat where the majority of folks were grandparent asked this question: "How many of you (grandparents) would lay down your lives for your grandchildren?" Most of the…
HOW CLOSE CAN WE GET? At their fiftieth anniversary, I asked my grandfather how he and my grandmother lasted fifty years. "It's simple," he said. "We married for keeps." It really is that simple. Every…
WOMAN WITHOUT MAN A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem Steve Morrison
