STRONG PEOPLE DIFFERENCE Strong people make as many and as ghastly mistakes as weak people. The difference is that strong people ADMIT THEM, LAUGH AT THEM, and LEARN FROM THEM. That is how they become…
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MINISTRY IS Ministry is giving when you feel like keeping, praying for others when you need to be prayed for, feeding others when your own soul is hungry, living truth... even when you can't see…
THE CHANGELESS GOD In the presence of change and shifting values, people's opinion's have been altered by the passing of time. For instance, early on in the history of our nation's railroads, leading economists declared:…
THE PAINFUL RIDDLE OF DEATH Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychiatry, wrote: "And finally there is the painful riddle of death, for which no remedy at all has yet been found, nor probably ever will…
MODERN MARTYRS In a special report entitled "The Persecuted Church" in January, 1989's Moody Monthly, the following statement is found: "In the last few months, Amnesty International has documented human rights abuses against religious leaders,…
THE BIRTH OF A SALESMAN Norman V. Peale tells a beautiful story of a man who was raised in deep poverty. His mother died at a time when her son was still very young, and…
GUILTY! A stern-faced, plainly-dressed man was seen standing on a busy street corner on the Chicago Loop some years ago. As pedestrians hurried by on their way to lunch or wherever, he would solemnly lift…
END OF NIRVANA Kurt Cobain, the twenty-seven-year-old lead singer of the grunge rock group Nirvana, shot himself in the head with a shotgun. He was reportedly despondent over domestic problems and substance abuse. One of…
JESUS IS WORTH IT Sheila Walsh, former co-host of the 700 Club wrote in her book Holding onto Heaven with Hell on Your Back: "If I say I'm willing to follow Jesus, what do I…
AMERICA INCARCERATED The United States is the most violent industrialized democracy in the world. The cost of goods or property stolen or spoiled due to crime amounted to fifteen billion dollars in 1991. In addition…
FALSE ALARM CHILE Authorities in Tiburon, California evacuated all the customers and work personnel in a Mexican restaurant after police received a report of an acrid-smelling toxic waste leak, but an investigation revealed it was…
MARRIAGE MATTERS I want to share with you an editorial that was published in U.S. News and World Report, April 12, 1993, by Mortimer B. Zuckerman, editor-in-chief. It is entitled "The Crisis of the Kids."…
FROM BOAT TO BAT "Guiseppe-good-for-nothing." That's what his father called him. As the son of a San Francisco fisherman, Guiseppe got sick at the smell of fish and turned green every time he boarded a…
WHEN TICKETS DON'T HURT In 1992 a Los Angeles county parking control officer came upon a brown Cadillac El Dorado illegally parked next to the curb on street sweeping day. The officer dutifully wrote out…
RELEASE FROM A CRUTCH Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name
ENOUGH KNOWLEDGE God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would…
ETERNAL ISOLATION Many years ago I had a dream. It was one of the few coherent dreams that I have ever had, but it was so vivid that even now I can remember the details…
WHAT'S A MAN TO DO? When a mother gets hurt, she may want to swear but she is only allowed to cry. When a father gets hurt, he may want to cry but is only…
JUST NEED A HUG Helga, the wife of Hagar the Horrible, that intrepid Viking from the comics, is standing at the pot and cooking. She hears a noise and asks, "Is that you Hagar?" Hagar…
KEVORKIAN ON DEATH In an interview with Dr. Jack Kevorkian who is better known as Dr. Death, Newsweek asked, "What's the mood when patients are in the process of ending their suffering?" Kevorkian responded, "It's…
