Time To Grow Up!
A young mother was pushing a super-market grocery cart toward the check-out counter. The cart was filled to overflowing and, sitting behind the pile in the upper-basket, was her three-year-old […]
Growth
To Make Us Real
Once upon a time there was a little boy who received a velveteen rabbit for Christmas. The rabbit was fat and bunchy. His coat was spotted brown and white. He
We Thank Thee Lord!
Nature has many remarkable ways of illustrating the growth process. In the case of the Chinese bamboo tree, for instance, the seed is planted, watered, fertilized, and for the first
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Whom Do You Trust?
A young lad on vacation went to Church with his parents one sunny Sunday morning. He listened closely to the sermon which was entitled, “Whom Do You Trust?” After Church,
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Christmas Is Coming
One day a butterfly was flying about in a meadow. It noticed below a brilliant multi-colored expanse filled with little yellow, red, purple and pink objects. The butterfly was so
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What Are You Waiting For?
Mike Ditka, former coach of the Chicago Bears, is one of American football’s living legends. Throughout his career, both as player and coach, Ditka demonstrated great physical toughness. Once, when
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Your Greatest Gift
. . . Do not ride in automobiles; they cause 20% of all accident fatalities; . . . Do not stay at home; 17% of all accidents occur in the
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Do You Like Yourself?
In today’s Lesson, after telling the crowds that unless they repent they will perish, Jesus tells a parable about a fig tree that hasn’t borne any fruit for three years.
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Grow Up!
On one of his many American concert tours, the great Polish pianist, Ignace Paderewski, received a visit from an ambitious young woman. The woman told the famous musician that she
He Had Bounce
“It is not the critic who counts, not the person who points out where the doer of deeds could have done better,” said Theodore Roosevelt, “the credit belongs to the
The Cause Of All Our Trouble
In their twenty-five years of marriage, hardly a night went by when the wife didn’t awaken her husband because she thought she heard an intruder in the house. The husband
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It Came To Pass
Religious Philosopher Eric Butterworth once was confronted with an extremely difficult life situation. He says he felt as if he had a tremendous weight on his shoulders. He began looking
God Loves A Good Story
It has been said, “There are not little things.” That is to say, things we regard as “little” often may be of greater value than things we regard as “big.”
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All We Need To Know
This is a time of week and a time of day in which we come together and give special attention to life’s one big question: The “Why?” of life itself.
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