THE MOMENT OF RELEASE Dr. Paul Tournier once compared life to a man who hangs from a trapeze. The trapeze bar is the man's security, his pattern of existence, his lifestyle. Then God swings another…
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SOFTLY AND GENTLY He was the hired custodian of the congregation where I served as pastor. He was my teacher, a story-teller, a man of wisdom, soft-spoken, a worker -- but most of all, I…
TOXIC TEACHING On January 1, 1992, the Chicago Tribune reported the death of thirty church-goers in the remote town of El Charquillo in the San Luis Potosi desert, about 300 miles north of Mexico City,…
STALIN'S PORTRAIT In his book Modern Times Paul Johnson notes that Stalin was short - just five feet, four inches tall. Furthermore, a childhood accident had left his left arm stiff and his hand slightly…
DANGER OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS The greatest intellectual danger of political correctness is its assumption that there are some ideas too dangerous to be heard, some words too hurtful to be allowed, some opinions no one…
WE STILL NEED FUEL When we first became Christians, we were like one-third horsepower lawn mower engines. WE could accomplish something, but not very much because we weren't very mature. Our goal as Christians is…
FOUR WAYS TO SAVE YOUR KIDS Harvard University sociologists Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck developed a test (that proved to be ninety percent accurate) to determine whether or not five-and six-year-olds would become delinquent. They discovered…
T-SHIRT TESTIMONY Seen on a T-Shirt by Witness Wear, Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Yes, as a matter of fact I am a... Wide- eyed, Sanctified; Blood Bought, Spirit Taught; Bible Totin', Scripture Quotin'; Satan Blastin', Sin Trashin';…
ISRAELI PAST TIME: BANK ROBBERIES Doug Struck of The Baltimore Sun reports that there have been over sixty robberies in Israel within the last seven months. He calls it "amateur hour for bank robbers in…
NEVER FELT BETTER A farmer was coming out of his field along the backroads of a remote area. Just as he pulled out on the road, a city slicker came speeding over the hilltop and…
DIVINE PROVISION God gives every bird its food, but He doesn't throw the food in the nest. From file: gudstory.mem -- source unknown --
BAD DAY FOR CHURCH Four associates were playing a round of golf on Sunday morning. None of their scores was good. On top of this embarrassment, it began to rain. The men returned to the…
SAFE LANDING PROMISED "God doesn't promise a smooth passage--just a safe landing." From Under Fire, by Oliver L. North
ONLY WHAT I DESERVE Ted Williams was closing out his career with the Boston Red Sox. He was suffering from a pinched nerve in his neck that season. He said, "It hurt so bad that…
PREACHING LIKE FIGHTING BEES Abraham Lincoln once said, "I don't like to hear cut, canned, dried sermons. When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act like he was fighting bees."
NO CALVIN COOLIDGE QUOTES In his 1924 presidential campaign, Calvin Coolidge greeted every controversial subject at press conferences with a standard response: "No comment!" Then he would leave the room, smiling, and then add, "Now,…
COMPLETE THE WORK OF CREATION From the writing of Harold Kushner: "One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 2,000 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of…
SOME ONE-LINERS Happiness is an inside job. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.…
NAKED TRUTH & RESPLENDENT PARABLE Once upon a time Truth went about the streets as naked as the day he was born. As a result, no one would let him into their homes. Whenever people…
BAPTIZING PUPPIES Veterinarians have various ways to identify brand new litters of puppies from each other. Some look exactly alike, you know. One such veterinarian used a method of wetting the head of each puppy…
