The chief personnel officer of a major commercial airline company was describing the difficulty of recruiting and training new employees-especially for jobs requiring the employee to give direct service to […]
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A young widow had been left with her four small children to raise and her physically handicapped mother to care for. Over the years, she devoted herself wholeheartedly to the
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Historians tell us that when the Roman Emperor, Severus, neared the end of his life, he gave a kind of farewell speech to his counselors. In summing up his life
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Two brothers, Kevin, age 6, and Ryan, age 4, were waiting for breakfast one Saturday morning. As their mother prepared pancakes, the boys began to argue over who would get
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“The Stranger,” by Albert Camus, is a powerful novel which deals with those fundamental life-and-death questions that concern us all because we are human: What does God mean to us
One of the most wondrous things about God is that you never know when He is going to break through all your defenses and call you into a deeper relationship
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In order to follow Jesus’ counsel and build your house-your life-on solid rock, you must enter into two different kinds of experience. First, there is the once-and-for-all experience of letting
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A man ran furiously along the dock to the ferry boat slip. He made a tremendous jump over twelve feet of water and landed with a painful crash on the
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A Theology professor in a midwestern seminary tells of a casual conversation he once had with an old friend: A good friend of mine sat in my office, thinking out
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A young clergyman was asked to preach on “Why I believe in God.” He thought it would be an easy sermon to prepare. After all, he could think of a
Land where our fathers died/Land of the pilgrim’s pride/ From every mountainside/Let freedom ring! On “Independence Day,” the American people celebrate the great gift of freedom they have received as
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“Continuity” is a persistent New Testament theme. Nothing really happens in isolation. What happens at one time is anticipated in what went before; what went before foreshadows what is happening;
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Most of us are walking right down the middle of the road. We have good intentions about many good things we
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The well-known contemporary poet, W. H. Auden, was one of the first to call our period in history “The Age of Anxiety.” Since that time, others have picked up on
An aging bishop had grown tired of the numerous socials and receptions he was expected to attend. On one such occasion, he entered the reception room wearily and immediately slumped
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Most of us consider an ordinary flea nothing more than a nuisance to ourselves and to our pets. But few of us are knowledgeable about the awesome feats these tiny
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Rembrandt did a painting which portrays the Biblical story of the storm on the Sea of Galilee. Perhaps some of you have seen it. The little ship occupied by Jesus
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