Futility | Godliness | Goodness | Joy | Lost | Lostness | Pleasures | Time | Zeal
UNSEEN PLEASURES Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. By Soren Kierkegaard
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Goals | Labor | Needs | Planning | Preparation | Priorities | Short Shorts | Time | Wisdom | Work
PREPARED FOR THIRST Dig the well before you get thirsty. — Chinese Proverb
Guidance | Humor | Ministry | Preachers | Preaching | Time | Worship
SERMON SUBJECTS The new minister asked, “What should I preach about?” “About heaven and fifteen minutes!” was the reply.
Bible Authority | Eschatology | Future | Perspective | Second Coming | Signs | Time | Warning
SIGNS OF CHRIST’S COMING I am no longer looking for the signs of Christ’s coming; I am now listening for the sound of his coming: the trumpet of God; I’ve seen all the signs I need to see. From T. Parker, O’Fallon, Missouri
Age | Aging | Life | Perspective | Poetry | Time | Wishes
I WANT TO LIVE Today, Lord, I’m 80, and there’s so much I haven’t done I hope, dear Lord, you’ll let me live until I’m 81. But then, if I haven’t finished all I want to do, Would you please let me stay awhile, until I’m 82? So many places I want to go, so …
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Attendance | Church | Commitment | Golf | Humor | Leisure | Marriage | Self | Sports | Time
TOSSING FOR TEE TIME Perkins was twenty minutes late at the first tee one Sunday morning, and the other three members of the regular foursome were almost ready to drive off without him. “I agreed with my wife,” explained Perkins, “that this Sunday I’d toss to see whether I played golf or went to church. …
Computers | Delays | Excuses | Failure | Humor | Technology | Time
Y2K DELAY Microsoft announced today that the official release date for the new operating system “Windows 2000” will be delayed until the second quarter of 1901.
Annoyances | Humor | Questions | Rest | Time | Trial
JOGGING TIME A man had been driving all night and by morning was still far from his destination. He decided to stop at the next city he came to, and park somewhere quiet so he could get an hour or two of sleep. As luck would have it, the quiet place he chose happened to …
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Health | Humor | Proverbs | Quips | Short ShortsChange | Time | Wisdom
SHORT SHOTS Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever. Melinda Hodgin
Attitude | Bosses | Death | Employees | Jobs | Labor | Resurrection | Time
RESURRECTED EMPLOYEES If you don’t believe in the resurrection of the dead you ought to be here five minutes before quitting time! Sign in San Francisco wholesale florist, taken from the April, 1981 issue of Parables, Etc.
Boredom | Church | Communication | Faith | Humor | Prayer | Sermons | Sleep | Time
JEWISH PRAYER SERVICES Another topic for satire among the Orthodox Jews is the talking that goes on during synagogue services. The Sabbath morning prayer service is long; in many congregations, it lasts for three hours or more. Most Orthodox Jews would not think of skipping this prayer service, but when they become bored, they talk. …
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America | Attributes of God | Christ | Creation | Eternal Life | Founding Fathers | Justice | Leadership | Patriotism | Politics | Sovereignty | Submission | Time
JOHN DICKINSON’S FAITH To my Creator I resign myself, humbly confiding in His goodness and in His mercy through Jesus Christ for the events of eternity. — John Dickinson
Aging | Love | Priorities | Productivity | Short Shorts | Time | Value
COUNT YEARS OR MAKE YEARS COUNT Love is not a matter of counting the years, but making the years count. — Michelle St. Amand
Character | Excuses | Failure | Procrastination | Time
PUTTING OFF PROCRASTINATION Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I shall . . . tomorrow. Are you a procrastinator? Many of us are. The playwright, March Connelly, was one of us.
Change | Eternal Life | Eternity | Futility | Perspective | Short Shorts | Time | Value | Worldliness
FUTILE GLORY How swiftly passes the glory of the world. Thomas A Kempis, Imitation of Christ, bk. I, ch. 3 found in Familiar Quotes by John Bartlett, p. 170
Activity | Business | Busy | Conflict | Criticism | Gossip | Hate | Pride | Satan | Sin | Time
DEFINITION OF BUSY How about this definition of busy: B – Being U – Under S – Satan’s Y – Yoke So, Are You BUSY? If the devil were to write his beatitudes, they would probably go something like this: Blessed are those who are too tired, too busy, too distracted to spend an hour …
Advice | Care | Doctors | Guidance | Health | Humor | Relevance | Time
STRANGE MALADY/ Patient: My tongue tingles when I touch it to a cracked walnut wrapped in used toaster oven aluminum foil, what’s wrong with me? Doctor: You have far too much free time.
Change | Danger | Discipline | Distractions | Priorities | Time | Urgency | Warning
REDEEMING THE TIME A woman recently died in Austin, Texas. The woman smelled smoke and ran from the house to safety. But then she ran back in to call 911 for the emergency. Before she was able to make the call, her boyfriend called. While she was explaining the situation to him, she became overcome …
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Brokeness | Child | Children | Eternity | Failure | Heaven | Humor | Time | Understanding | Worship
FOREVER AND EVER Many times, between the cereal crumbs, crawling on the pews, and coloring on the bulletins, we adults often question what value a young child gets out of a church service. One recent Sunday morning, I got the answer when I overheard a regular attending two year old boy in a nearby pew …
Atonement | Forgiveness | Guilt | Pardon | Penalty | Reconciliation | Sin | Time
TIME CANCELS NO SIN We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker’s, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to …
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