COMPARING THINGS YOU DON'T USUALLY COMPARE If you were to stand a truly giant super-tanker (the kind that now carries oil around the world) on end next to the World Trade Center, you could stand…
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A SCIENTIFIC REPORT Thomas Edison was a scientific genius, an exacting and practical man who didn't casually say things he didn't believe. Mrs. Edison told about the night Edison was at death's door: Suddenly it…
WE EACH HAVE OUR OWN MINDSET I was recently in one of those situations with some fellow pastors where we were playing that familiar "My old Prof was harder, or stranger than your old prof"…
AN ADAPTABLE STORY Here's one of those you can change freely to fit into your own favorite context: Imagine yourself going down the road of life and you come to a vital crossroads. You are…
THE REWARD OF THE WITNESS When I enter that beautiful city . . . And the saints in glory draw near, I want someone to greet me and tell me,It was YOU who invited me…
SELF-DISICPLINE The following is from the excellent biography of Dr. Paul Brand, medical missionary to India: At first Paul lived at home. In order to get to work at seven thirty, an hour's ride across…
LIVING UNDER THE PROSPECT OF JUDGMENT DAY Long ago in New England there was a strange dark day which frightened many people. At noon it was as dark as early night. The birds sang their…
THE POSITIVE FRUIT OF TENSION Theodore E. Steinway, president of Steinway and Sons, once noted, "In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame.…
CREATION AND REDEMPTION It cost more to redeem us than to create us. In creation it was but speaking a word. In redemption there was shedding of blood (I Peter 1:19). Creation was the work…
ATTITUDE -- I'LL LOOK FOR THE STARS During World War II, a young bride from New Jersey followed her soldier-husband to a U. S. Army camp on the edge of the California desert. Her husband…
GOOD NEWS IS FOR SHARING I recall one night very late in the evening when I was called to the hospital. As I was walking down the semi-dark hall, which was totally vacant of people…
DID CHRIST COME TOO SOON? A most moving illustration is one that was written many years ago by Maxwell Anderson in his drama entitled "The Wingless Victory." This is a story of a sea captain…
GET YOUR EXCUSE READY Frank Robinson, the local sci-fi writer, was browsing through a used-book store and found a copy of his novel, The Gold Crew, autographed warmly to his friend, Burleigh Sutton. A mutual…
SHAGGY GATES It seems that two men, Pete Jones and Sam Frank were two musicians who were the best of buddies, although one was more righteous than the other. They both died about the same…
PAYOFF If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. Chinese Proverb
COMPARATIVE VALUES A lady was walking along an old river with a friend. Suddenly a frog hopped up right beside her, and made a strange noise. In fact, it almost sounded like the frog was…
THE ANGELS OF MONS A month after the bitterly fought Battle of Mons in the First World War, a report appeared in the London Evening News that caused a sensation at the time and has…
BALANCE The archer strikes the target, partly by pulling, partly by letting go. Bits & Pieces
NEAR MISS Six-year-old Angie came home from school with a blue ribbon which she said she had won for knowing an answer in natural history: "I said a giraffe had three legs." Her mother responded,…
SO -- DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! The story is told that a young boy complained to his father that most of the church hymns were boring -- old fashioned, with tiresome tunes and words that…
