Give Until You Rejoice!
“It’s my own fault,” said the father of three … All my life I’ve worked hard to give my children a safe and comfortable home to grow up in. I’ve […]
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Giving
That’s The Spirit!
A mother receives a birthday card made with all the love and devotion her little six-year-old son could put into it. It is smudged with crayon marks and glue. On
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Repent!
In the Gospels, we find over-and-over again the Good News of the kind of full life God wants to give us. Because He loves us so much, He has come
Jesus Wants In
Jesus came to make God real for us. Jesus came to make God immediate to us, present to us. Through Jesus we experience God’s love directly. From Jesus we learn
In Gold We Trust?
In “The Book of Lists,” there is a collection of “Memorable Boners” which includes the following: In 1961, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City displayed a painting
Are You In Hot Water?
During the mid-1800s, Alexis DeTocqueville, the famous French Historian, endeavored to capture and record some of the spirit of the American Dream. He traveled extensively in the United States and
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The Strength To Live
A man who was preparing to take his own life (fortunately, the attempt failed), wrote a suicide note which said, simply, “I don’t have the strength it takes to go
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Warning And Opportunity
Three persons were standing at the gates of heaven seeking admission: two men and one woman. “I would like to come in,” one of the men said to St. Peter.
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Even My Money
William Allen White, famed Editor of the “Emporia Gazette,” was a staunch member of the Democratic Party. On one occasion, however, he found himself attending a Republican Party convention as
He’s Only . . .
A school superintendent and an elementary school principal were conducting a review of an eighth grade teacher’s work. As they entered the classroom through the back door, they heard the
We Must Do More
An article titled “Nine Extraordinary Human Abilities” describes some truly unusual and amazing skills. You are likely familiar with “Absolute pitch” — demonstrated by those talented individuals who can sing
An **A**-For-Effort
In one of his writings, Ralph Waldo Emerson asks, “How do you measure success?” In his answer, he lists the following traits: To appreciate beauty; To find the best in
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The More He Gave, The More He Had
A man went to see the pastor of a downtown Church and told him a distressing story of poverty and misery in the neighborhood. “Not far from this Church,” the
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Light Up The World
Due to the vast television coverage of last year’s campaigns for the U.S. Presidency, even the very young became familiar with the images and the rhetoric of the leading candidates.
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It’s Worth The Risk
One of the great things about being a Christian is that as we grow in the faith there are fewer and fewer places in our lives which we are reluctant
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We Rejoice
Jesus began the Sermon on the Mount by saying to His followers, “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Men do not
I Accept
“He gave His only Son.” How do we respond to God’s great gift? We celebrate of course, but there is more to it than that. It has been said that
Give, Give, Give
It so happened that Henry and Phyllis, married for fifty years, died on the same day. Consequently, they arrived at the Pearly Gates together. Whereupon, the Heavenly Host opened up
When You Grow Up
Two men who were members of the same Church met on the street. One said to the other … “Have you heard about Harvey? He embezzled over a million dollars
