THAT FUTILE FEELING That feeling extends even to white-collar workers like Keiji Nakahori, a salesman for an Osaka paper manufacturing company. "Sometimes I ask myself just what it is I am working for, what my…
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LIFE TO YEARS OR YEARS TO LIFE No one outside divinity schools is seeking eternal life. Rather, they are trying to understand why human life span seems to be capped at about 120 years, why…
TAKE YOUR TIME WITH ANGER Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed, and then discovering the brakes are out of order.…
TIME FOR THE FAMILY Americans believe the greatest threat to the family is the inability of parents to spend enough time with their children, a nationwide survey on family values has found. But it also…
STRESS FOR KIDS Hospitals are now letting parents drop off their sick children for the day. At elementary schools the kids are in before breakfast and are kept after class doing homework, crafts or sports…
HOW WE SPEND TIME Where does time go? For those of you who've asked that question, a recent poll by Priority Management, Inc., has the answer. In a lifetime, the average American will spend: -…
A STEP AT A TIME Someone has described God's leadership in a simple analogy. "God acts like a flashlight in our hand in the dark. If we try to shine it too far ahead, we…
BIBLE READING TIME In a lifetime of 72 years we spend 21 years sleeping 2 years returning calls 14 years working 1 year searching for things 7 years in the bathroom 6 years eating 22…
DECISION TIME Conversion is a process... Every time a person confronts an obstacle, it's decision time. Few of us make it in one big decision. Instead, it's a multitude of small choices -- mini-decisions that…
MORE TIME FOR HIS FAMILY Ann Landers once told about a man who quit his job; he walked out on an executive position in a major electronics company. He just wanted to spend more time…
EQUAL TIME FOR TRUTH All truths are equally true, but they are not all equally important. We could spend a lot of time arguing issues, but at the end, are men & women brought closer…
TIME FOR ACTION There was a young man who came to a pastor's office and said he wanted to be a Christian but he didn't know what being a Christian was all about. The pastor…
FAMILY PRIORITIES The American male at home. Quick, which images come to mind? Football, beer, TV? Nope. Nope. Nope. According to a random phone survey conducted for Spiegel, Inc., American men are more interested in…
THE AMERICAN LEISURE MYTH The idea that pressured Americans have less leisure than ever is a myth. There has never been enough time for us. There probably never will be. Americans live in constant fear…
FREE TIME Since 1965 sleeping time -- about eight hours -- and eating time -- an hour and a third -- have remained stable. Free time - - everything excluding work, sleep, eating, shopping, housework…
BEING WITH YOUR DAD Several years ago I made the acquaintance of a gifted young man who happened to serve as the director of the astronaut corp for NASA. This man was assigned to command…
PRIME TIME REQUIRED Christianity requires our prime time, not our spare time.
VINCE FOSTER ON TIME Just six weeks before Vince Foster, deputy presidential counsel to President Clinton, was reported to have taken his own life, he had spoken to the graduating class of Arkansas University School…
KILLING MORE THAN TIME "If you're killing time today, you're killing your future tomorrow" By John Maxwell
GROWING UP AND GROWING OLD We spend about one-quarter of our lives growing up and three-quarters growing old. By Gail Sheehy, Passages, New York: Dutton, 1976, from Men in Mid-life Crisis, by Jim Conway
