TALENT THREAT The exasperated piano teacher who told her unruly student, "If you don't behave yourself, I'll tell your parents you have talent!"
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ARE YOU JESUS? Several years ago a group of salesman went to a regional sales meeting in Chicago. They assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for supper on Friday…
GRACE IS AMAZING! Why do we call grace amazing? Grace is amazing because it works against the grain of common sense. Hard-nosed common sense will tell you that you are too wrong to meet the…
GOD LOVES ALL CREATURES This winter when I put the flannel sheets on the beds for the first time of the season, my 3 year old Paul was helping. We have sheep sheets and penguin…
WAITING TO DO GOOD He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
REFLECTIONS OF THE SELF No man is an island. But some of us are very long peninsulas. Ashleigh Brilliant
GRACE ASSUMED There was a pretzel stand in front of an office building in New York. One day, a business man came out of the building, plunked down a quarter, and then went on his…
TRUTH IS NOW Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always. Albert Schweitzer in Out of My Life and Thought
MY BABY Les Brown is an Emergency Med Tech in San Jose, California. He was driving home from work, exhausted and looking forward to being with his family, one Friday night, when he heard an…
THE MAN THE KING DIED FOR Years ago a king was out with some people hunting. They noticed a lot of people on the river's edge. They saw a man caught in the rapids, and…
A DEEPER SPHERE Dr. Charles Malik, Professor Emeritus, The American University, Beirut, Lebanon, former President of the United Nations General Assembly: "The needs of the world are much deeper than political freedom and security, much…
COMPASSION INVOLVES LOVE Compassion is a sympathetic love which always includes involvement.
AMERICA IS NUMBER ONE "There once were two superpowers, now obviously there is only one superpower. Now that we've won the Gulf war, suppressed a tyrant, and made it perfectly clear that we're not going…
THE REAL ANGELS Rabbi Lionel Blue tells of his grandmother (bubbe) taking him on weekly "expeditions." "On Thursday nights she woke me up and at dead of night, when the gas-lamps were turned down to…
STICKING YOUR NECK OUT Hagar and his buddy, Lucky Eddie are in the pub having a drink. Lucky Eddie, full of compassion, looks at another patron and says, "I feel sorry for him, he always…
WRONG ONE WRONGED While traveling on a train, a wealthy Jewish merchant treated a poor old man with rudeness and disdain. When they arrived at their common destination, the merchant found the station thronged with…
GOD'S POWER AND GRACE "The will of God will not lead you where the power of God cannot enable you and the grace of God cannot keep you." From Decision Making and the Will of…
AN HONEST RETURN Pauline Nichter, 46, and her husband, Tom, 44, had both lost their jobs - she was a warehouse supervisor, he a warehouseman and were living in and out of motels with their…
GOD CHOOSES NOBODIES God can achieve his purpose either through the absence of human power and resources, or the abandonment of reliance on them. All through history God has chosen and used nobodies, because their…
THE REASON FOR THE BUDGET The budget of our church is more than a set of figures, more than a projection of giving and a list of expenditures. It is the spiritual concerns, priorities, goals,…
