TEENAGERS "It seldom occurs to teenagers that someday they will know as little as their parents."
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CREDIBILITY "If you tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe, he'll believe you. But if you tell him a bench has just been painted, he has to touch it to…
STRATEGY FOR MARRIAGE Keep your eyes open before marriage; half shut afterwards. Ben Franklin
GENERATION GAP It's hard to know just where one generation ends and the next one begins, but it's somewhere around 9 p.m.
STYLE The Napoleonic Maxim: You can't lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. If you do think you look funny on a horse, then postpone the charge and talk…
THE DAILY PUSH I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble . . . For…
ALL OR NOTHING AT ALL Richard Helper submitted a familiar old story that I've told many times over the years. It's about the young seminary student who was asked to minister in a church in…
P. S. Did you hear about the fellow who went into business on a shoestring and tripled his investment? Now he's trying to figure out what to do with three shoestrings!
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES Dale Steele, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Burlington, North Carolina sent in a familiar old story that I've always liked too. It seems that two well-born and blue-blooded…
TACT The art of making a point without making an enemy.
HOSPITAL MINISTRY Joan B. Beebe is the Associate Pastor of Calvary Church in South Pasadena. She recently wrote the following piece that was written in the Arcadia, CA weekly newsletter, and in Monday Morning I…
THE DISTAFF VIEW An excellent publication for your partner in ministry is Partnership, published by Christianity Today out of Carol Stream, Illinois. I frequently find it a source of good stories. Here's one I liked:…
A BODY LESS THAN GREEK Designer jeans can be seen just about everywhere, except on designer bodies. Bits and Pieces
RULES FOR HAPPINESS Something to do; someone to love; something to hope for." Jack Lee, Arcadia, CA
MURPHY'S LAW Lynch's Law "When the going gets tough, everyone leaves. Klipstein's Third Law of Engineering "Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term. Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per…
UNLUCKY He's been unlucky in both his marriages. His first wife left him and his second wife won't.
PRAYERS FROM THE PEOPLE Do you ever encourage people in your congregation to write out prayers that could be used in worship, public or private? No, I haven't either. But one of our members wrote…
MATURITY is when you're willing to stand in line to get out of going to a rock concert.
LOGIC If God had meant for us to fly, he'd have put the airports closer to town. Funny, Funny World
ADJUSTED A well-adjusted man is one who can enjoy the scenery even with the kids in the back seat.
