He’s Done It Again
A man was returning home in his pickup truck after attending a religious revival meeting. He was still pondering the sermon on Jesus’ miracle of changing water into wine at […]
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Love
What Makes Life Worthwhile?
In a moving scene from “The River,” Jean Renoir’s beautiful film of India, a crippled American soldier is outraged over the cross he has been given to bear. In his
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Take My Hand
According to an old legend, a man became lost in his travels and wandered into a bed of quicksand. Confucius saw the man’s predicament and said, “It is evident that
Faith, Love And Peace
The subject of prayer has always held a position of prominence in religious publishing. Down through the years, persons from all walks of life have been writing books about prayer
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Is The World Ready For You?
A young bride-to-be learned, to her dismay, that some of her fiance’s religious beliefs were less than orthodox. “What shall I do?” she asked her mother anxiously, “Harold doesn’t even
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How High Is This Church?
Nearly four hundred years ago, the famed Japanese tea-master, Rikyu, planned the construction of a new tea-house and garden. He designed it with great care in order to give it
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The Lucky Ones
A certain pastor went into the pulpit one Sunday morning and said to the congregation: “I have been informed that I am to become the pastor of another congregation. The
Slips Don’t Count
“You’re in good hands with Allstate,” says the advertisement for one of America’s best-known insurance companies. We’re all familiar with the “logo” which accompanies these words — a pair of
Good Work God!
A young mother, after putting her two children to bed one night, changed into an over-sized sweatshirt and an old pair of jeans, and proceeded to wash her hair. She
Change Your Tune
The story is told of a great violinist who owned the most valuable violin in the world. Once, during the course of a superb concert performance, he suddenly smashed his
Stranger Than Fiction
“Truth is stranger than fiction,” we often say. And that is how Jesus’ offer of new life must have sounded to the Pharisees and others: stranger than fiction. To understand
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Come Alive!
“Now is the favorable time; this is the day of salvation,” the Apostle Paul wrote to the members of the Church in Corinth (2 Cor. 6:2). Now! Today! In the
Are You A Power?
The opening sentences of a book called “Advice From a Failure,”1 brings the reader face-to-face with certain of life’s realities: It is not an easy world to live in. It
Zing Go The Strings!
In a nineteenth century painting entitled “Hope,”1 the artist portrays a woman with bandaged eyes. She is unable to see ahead of herself. In her hands is a harp with
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The Best Possible Glimpse
I paid a dime for a package of seeds. The clerk tossed them down with a flip. “We have them assorted to every man’s needs,” he said, with a smile
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Give, Give, Give!
In a second grade religion class, a little girl wrote a letter to God in which she asked… ARE YOU RICH OR JUST FAMOUS? Perhaps that little girl’s question was
For Once, Why Don’t We?
There was a flurry of excitement in the household of a family whose oldest child was preparing to leave for her freshman year at the State University in Fredonia, New
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Let’s Get Lost
In one of his “best-seller” books, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has written a chapter on what he calls “spiritual love.” He says, At the center of purposeful relationships is love.
Do You Get The Connection?
Would you believe that an official government agency, as such, has expressed faith in the doctrine of the “Resurrection of the dead”? … A woman’s husband died in 1988. In
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Bad News/good News
In the popular film, “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” the humor which is present in the first three weddings disappears when death comes to one of the characters — a
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