AS SMALL AS THEY GET So you think your church is small! Recently I read about a pastor who was sitting in his office on Sunday morning when the phone rang. The conversation went like…
DISNEYLAND LEFT A family left on vacation headed for Disneyland. Three days later they returned home. Their curious neighbors immediately questioned them, "We thought you went to Disneyland. Why have you returned so soon?" The…
OOPS! - PART 1 Then there was the young couple who had a terrific argument on the morning before leaving for work. The wife couldn't get her dress zipped up in back, so she backed…
BLESSED FLEXIBILITY Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. Michael McGriff, M.D.
CLOSE-MINDED CONCRETE Some minds are like concrete -- all mixed up and permanently set.
VOCAL ENCOURAGEMENT If there is something laudable, Make sure that it is audible. Madge M. Mullin
OOPS! - PART 2 Our story is not complete without telling of a man who could not give a convincing explanation about his broken arm. He kept muttering about trying to stick his arm through…
ENTHUSIASM SWITCH Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. Ivern Ball in National Enquirer
A LOUDER HORN OF PRAISE Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far. Will Rogers
THOSE WHO DON'T SAY MUCH There are two kinds of people who don't say much ...those who are quiet ...and those who talk a lot. From Ideas for Better Living
WISE AND OTHERWISE A few people are wise; most are otherwise. Michael E. Hodgin
EXPERIENCE NEVER GRADUATES The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. Doug Larson, United Feature Syndicate
CHURCH GROWTH EQUATION Hot heads plus cold hearts equal empty churches.
ONE- SIDED THINKING When two people agree on everything, one of them is doing all the thinking.
TALKERS AND WALKERS Two great talkers will not travel far together. Spanish proverb
DECLINING INVITATIONS It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny. Publius Syrus
THE BEGGAR DOES NOT RUN A beggar sat at the gate of the rich man's home from whose bountiful hand the beggar received constant gifts. One day the rich man wanted to send a message…
OTHERS COMING When a friend asked to write his biography, he replied "Nix on the biography...merely say the cuss lived; he worked; he died; there are others coming along." Robert E. Speer, General Secretary Presbyterian…
MISPLACED INFERIORITY The trouble with inferiority complexes is the right people don't have them. Bill Leary, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
CENTIPEDE TIME A football game on Noah's Ark. It was the team with the rhinoceros that were 24-0 at the end of the first half. The losing team was justifiably demoralized, but as second-half action…
