PETER PAYS PAUL A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw
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PRESIDENTIAL RISK In America any boy may become president. I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. -- Adlai Stevenson
POLITICAL PROMISES Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there's no river. -- Nikita Krushchev
PRAISE AND THE DOXOLOGY Praise is derived from the Latin word "preisier" which means to prize -- praise is an expression of approval, a worship, and a valuation of that which has worth or merit.…
WINDOW OF OUR SPIRITS Open wide the window of our spirits, O Lord, and fill us full of light; open wide the door of our hearts that we may receive and entertain you with all…
HANNAH'S EXULTATION Hannah played music for her son, Sammy. One day he heard these words: Our God is an awesome God. He reigns in heaven above in wisdom and power and love. The words enkindled…
JOY OF SCIENCE The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, "So that's how God did it." My goal is to understand a…
HOPE & PRAISE Hope does not reduce the ingredients of living, but adds God to the equation. Hope shouts, not because there is no enemy, but because God gives the triumph. Hope sings, not because…
SING IT LIKE YOU KNOW HIM The choir was singing Handel's Messiah conducted by the great Reichel, and this was their last rehearsal. The soprano soloist came to the last refrain of "I know that…
GOD'S LOVE & THE CHANGING WIND Charles Haddon Spurgeon once visited a farmer and noticed that he had a weather vane on his barn with these words on the arrow: "GOD IS LOVE!" Spurgeon asked…
NOT THAT GOD During his long career as pastor of New York's Riverside Church, the late Harry Emerson Fosdick spent many hours counseling students from nearby Columbia University. One evening a distraught young man burst…
TWO ROADS TO WEALTH Choose your journey; there are two roads to wealth. One road requires an increase in your level of money and possessions. The other road simply requires a decrease in your level…
EXPAND GOD'S PRESENCE To pray is to bring God back into the world... to expand God's presence. Talking about God is idle chatter unless we first learn to talk to God. By Rabbi Abraham Heschel,…
GET TO KNOW GOD God doesn't ask us to try to figure Him out. He asks us to get to know Him so that we can trust Him. To know His ways so that we…
WITNESS FROM A DUNGEON High up above the little town of Gisors, in Normandy, there stands an ancient castle. It is very beautiful with it's crumbling turrets, and ivy-grown battlements. But it is not of…
THAT'S ALL I WANT One of the finest sermons ever preached was delivered by a little girl who was asked by her teacher to repeat the Twenty-third Psalm from memory. She didn't recite it as…
ATTAINING GOD'S GOALS I am personally convinced that no goal God has for my life is impossible or uncertain, nor can it be blocked. Imagine God saying, "I've called you into existence, I've made you…
FROM DISASTER TO DOXOLOGY The decade of the 1660s in England was filled with disaster. The plague in 1665 made its way through the city of London leaving 70,000 dead. A year later a fire…
WORK & WORSHIP Most middle-class Americans tend to worship their work, to work at their play, and to play at their worship. As a result, their meanings and values are distorted. Their relationships disintegrate faster…
RESPONSE TO GOD St. Catherine of Siena was once asked what we can possible give to God, that is ours to give, in return for God's love. She said that the only things we can…
