EXPENSIVE EXPERIENCE It seems like experience would be a better teacher if it did not charge so much for tuition.
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MONUMENTAL MISTAKE Mistakes are not necessarily bad; a mistake may be a monument to something imagined and something tried.
COMMUNICATION ENUMERATION 1) Listen with an inner ear -- to hear what actually is meant, rather than what is said with words. 2) Listen to the concerns of others. Don't concentrate solely on your own…
A BOX OF LOVE While helping her mother prepare for Christmas, a little girl asked about the meaning of this holiday. The mother told her that Christmas was the time of the year we celebrate…
CHRISTMAS LESSONS When you constantly ask me what I want and what I'm going to get, I learn that Christmas is GETTING. When you tell me I'd better be good, I learn that Christmas is…
INCARNATION NOT BY CHANCE What are the chances of just eight occurrences of Old Testament prophecies by pure chance? Peter Stoner, in his book Science Speaks, calculated the probability of coincidental fulfillments at 10 to…
THE NEST EGG IS GONE A woman returned home from a holiday shopping spree with her arms loaded with packages. Her husband met her at the door and said, "What did you buy? With prices…
RAISIN EXPECTATIONS At Christmas time, our 2 year old innocently warbled this very distinctive version of the hymn 'O Come All Ye Faithful' for us - "Sing choirs of angels...sing and expect raisins"! Lorna Unrau,…
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY The angelic announcement is the same today as it was the night of the sacred birth of the Christ Child: "Peace on Earth, Good Will to men. The wonder of Christmas is…
LUTHER ON NEIGHBORS Martin Luther perceives the hypocrisy in some of our visions of grandeur: There are those of us... who think to ourselves, "If I had only been there! How quick I would have…
SANTA REALITIES Some second graders were talking about Santa - whether old Saint Nick was real or not. One child said that he had thought at one time that Santa was not real. His cousins…
GOD WITH US Spurgeon describes the Emmanuel as God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with him…
BLAME IT ON SANTA The parents of a five year old boy were so excited about a very special gift they had purchased for their son. They had saved up their money and bought him…
SANTA DISPROVED If God wanted us to believe in Santa Claus, he would not have waited about giving Dad the shape of Santa until the children were old enough to know better.
AS THE SHEPHERD SAW IT We was just sittin' there swappin' a story or two Trying to pass the time The best we knew how to do Jacob got out the flute He was fixin'…
CHRISTMAS TRIMMINGS Christmas is a time When the tree gets trimmed And so does the budget.
GOD AS A CHILD Who would have had sufficient daring of imagination to conceive that God Almighty would have appeared among men as a little child? We should have conceived something sensational, phenomenal, catastrophic, appalling!…
THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Mary, highly favored I heard the angel say. Mary, blessed of God, And he went on his way. Mary, highly favored? I stopped to ask myself. Mary, blessed of God, Couldn't…
INNKEEPER'S DILEMMA If I'd known who was coming I would have mucked out the stable Put clean straw in the manger Done all I was able to do, To make the Inn a fit place…
WHERE TO FIND CHRISTMAS Christmas is the gift from heaven Of God's Son given for free; If Christmas isn't found in your heart, You won't find it under the tree. Charlotte Carpenter in Herald of…
