The most difficult task in life is to resist laziness.
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The best time to remember is now.
You postpone living when you dwell on yesterday.
ANTI- DISENCOURAGEMENT Jerry Clavelle, former coach of the NFLs Houston Oilers and the Atlanta Falcons gave a speech to a civic club recently. Jerry stated that there are at least twenty qualities of leadership desired…
CHRISTIANITY'S VIRTUE One reason why the Christian religion has been so salutary for mankind is that it has known just where to lift man up, and just where to keep him down. When he is…
LITANY OF APATHY We have the handsomest minister. Isn't that nice! He preaches the sweetest sermons. Isn't that nice! He never angers anyone. Isn't that nice! Our church serves the best bean suppers. Isn't that…
WORK AS EXPRESSION Work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in…
JIGSAW PUZZLE LIVES Recently one of our daughters gave me a marvelous jigsaw puzzle, and I began to have some interesting thoughts. Working with jigsaw puzzles can be very frustrating, or very relaxing. So it…
BIBLE THE BASIS OF HOPE Two angels were flying around the neighborhood the other day. If you listened real carefully, you could hear them talking... Michael: Gabriel, How's it going? Gabriel: Oh, Michael, it's been…
STATE FAIR SWORD LUST I remember a time when my parents took me to the State Fair in Dallas. I was about six years old. We were like a lot of working people in those…
MEMBERSHIP COMMITMENT Another way of putting the problem is to say that we must not permit people who commit themselves to Jesus Christ and his church to remain in a spectator role. They must not…
CHRISTIANITY & SOCIAL PROBLEMS By what right does the church concern itself with social problems? We answer by right of the plain fact that the whole range of life belongs to God. Nothing human is…
SCHWEITZER ON SERVICE It struck me as incomprehensible that I should be allowed to lead such a happy life, while I saw so many people around me wrestling with care and suffering. Even at school…
PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS What is this myth "happiness" that has bamboozled so many of us? And what is this idiotic thing "fun" which so many chase after? Where people once said, "Good-bye", they now say,…
GOSPEL OR EVANGEL IS GOOD NEWS Gospel is translated from the Greek word euangelion (pronounced YOO-ON-GEL-ION). Euangelion comes from EU (GOOD as in eulogy) and ANGELOS (message or messenger as in angel). The gospel or…
RADIANCE FROM INSIDE A French artist meticulously constructed a model of the Cathedral of Notre Dame. It was an exact replica to scale, inside and out. It took the patient craftsman years to complete. In…
HOW'S YOUR WIFE Randy and Dan hadn't seen each other for over a year. They bumped into each other after a football game. Randy: "And how is your wife?" Dan: "My wife has gone to…
LEWIS ON FAITH It's after you've realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power --…
SCANDAL OF THE CROSS The true scandal is that however faithfully and clearly one preaches the Gospel, at a certain point, the world, because it is in rebellion, will turn from it. Men turn away…
RESERVED SEATS IN HEAVEN Leave it to children in their innocence to interpret the deeper considerations of the Christian faith. Hartley and Kristen are energetic three-year-olds who were born days apart. Their parents are close…
