AGELESS HONESTY Man is the only creature who spends two-thirds of his lifetime saving up for old age, and the last third denying that it has arrived.
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NYPD BLUE OBJECTION Sex, profanity and violence are a part of American's everyday lives, but that is no reason to feature them on prime time... Trash is trash, no matter how well it is packaged.…
SKIN- DEEP COMPASSION A Chinese pastor once told American Christians how Christianity had finally taken hold in his native territory. The Western missionaries had spent considerable time with little success in getting converts. However, one…
Appearance | Arrogance | Bias | Conceit | Faith | Heaven | Pride | Tradition | Truth | Understanding
THE CUSTOMS OF HEAVEN There's an old story, I think Mark Twain told it first, about a rather pompous and self-important man who dies and goes to heaven. He marches up to the Pearly Gates…
OUR OWN CREATIONS We say there is no God (quite easily) when amongst the curing steel and glass of our own proud creations. They will not argue. Once we were told of a heaven, but…
LEADERSHIP IDENTITY Ted Engstrom says, "All strong leaders become so because they are able to identify readily with people but not become 'one of the boys.' A leader has to be ready to walk away…
EXAMPLE OF LOVE One writer has suggested a helpful way of understanding Christ's perfect love, by substituting the name "Jesus" for the word "love" in Paul's great chapter 13 of I Corinthians: "Jesus was patient,…
DOUBT COMES NATURALLY Martin Luther remarked, "The art of doubting is easy, for it is an ability that is born with us." From "Doubt," by Os Guinness, pg. 32
I DON'T THINK I KNOW A college professor scrawled a lengthy mathematical equation across the chalkboard. As he turned around, he caught one student's head bobbing, so he fired a question at him. The shaken…
MARITAL LIMITATIONS "Marriage is okay as long as you don't get emotionally involved." From The Lockhorns Cartoon, January 9, 1991
GOD ANALYSIS God doesn't care so much about being analyzed. Mainly, he wants to be loved. Disappointment With God, Philip Yancey, pg. 53
BUILD IT FOR YOURSELF Once there was a good man who wanted to do something good. One day, he noticed the miserable conditions in which a poor carpenter lived. The rich man called the carpenter…
MIDDLE AGES FATHER "I don't know how old my Mom is but my Dad is in the middle ages." From a Dennis the Menace Cartoon
SERMONIC LEFTOVERS A young pastor in his first charge announced nervously: "I will take for my text the words, 'And they fed five men with five thousand loaves of bread and two thousand fishes.'" At…
AGE AND PLATEAUS A friend of mine describes old age as that time when we run in circles around the last plateau we reach. He says that throughout life we are climbing from one plateau…
KLINGON BIBLE TRANSLATION I just heard it on the news. Star Trek fans rejoice! Not only has the Klingon language been put into a dictionary -- The Bible is now being translated in the Klingon…
PSYCHIC TRAINING E. Frenkel, one of the Soviet Union's growing number of psychic healers and mentalists, claimed he used his powers to stop bicycles, automobiles and streetcars. He thought he was ready for something bigger,…
PRIDE AND CRITICISM To speak badly of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Will Durant, in Newsweek, May 12, 1984, pg. 10
HAPPY AND UNHAPPY FAMILIES "Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" By Leo Tolstoy, Newsweek, July 1, 1985, pg. 43
AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM But as he wrote in his "Democracy in America," he also detected a threat to American society. "Individualism," he wrote, "is a calm and considered feeling which disposes a citizen to isolate himself…
