Be Yourself
In recent years much emphasis has been placed on the “cool” look. We are encouraged to look like we’re not trying when we really are, to “hang loose,” to be […]
Relationships
What God Feels Like
A woman hovers between life and death in the hospital’s intensive care unit. A tangle of tubes are connected to various parts of her body. From time to time she
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Throw Some Eggs
“Honor your father and your mother.” The importance of this Commandment is impressed upon us as little children and continues throughout our lives. Although our awareness of the command is
Urgent!
A Middle-aged bookstore customer was expressing her obvious annoyance to one of the store clerks. “Every time I come in here to buy a best-seller, you are ‘sold out,’ “she
The Expression Of Life
A famous preacher tells of receiving a letter from a parishioner which began as follows: “I listened to your sermon on suffering last Sunday. I just wanted you to know
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What Money Can’t Buy
Two business competitors argued at length about certain shady business practices. Finally, one said to the other, “Let’s be clear about one thing. There are lots of ways to make
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A Call To Discovery
Those who have been to the Holy Land often come back to report a surprise: it is so very small. Especially Jerusalem. No matter how many Bible atlases one has
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The Future Is Ours
It is said that our present Age lacks a proper sense of reverence for the awesome mystery of life. Modern man, it is said, has lost the capacity to dwell
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A Glorious Vision
In the teachings of Buddha, there is a list of what is called “the four sorrows.” The first is “sickness.” The second is “death.” The third is “old age.” And
I Don’t Remember
In a Sunday school class, the teacher was working with her young students on the subject of the Crucifixion. As they were going through the Event, the teacher asked, “Do
Feelings
In the Old Testament saga, Israel’s greatest King is David. He was called the “Lion of Judah,” the “Warrior King.” David was a great military leader. He had great expertise
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
Do We Care?
One of the ancient Greek words for “love is eros, meaning erotic love. “Eros’ is important, one of God’s good gifts. But the Biblical word in Greek is a-ga-pe (agape
Winter Had Come
“So long as he is in this world, man is like a sick person lying upon a bed more or less uncomfortable, who sees around him other beds nicely made,
The Price
An Army sergeant had recently been transferred across the country to a new base. The family had moved with him, and the military chaplain on the base asked the sergeant’s
Wouldn’t It Be Fantastic?
Some of you here today are old enough to remember the number one, best-selling record of the Mills Brothers … You always hurt the one you love The one you
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No One To Look Down On
God’s ways are not our ways. God’s thoughts are not our thoughts: As high as the heavens are above the earth o high are My ways above your ways and
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Get On My Back
“All you who are weary and find life burdensome” is a figure of speech drawn from the laboring people of Jesus’ time-hard-working slaves and farmers who were bent low for
The Connection
Not long ago, a Midwest newspaper ran the story of a memory expert. He had earned a doctors’ degree in the study of human memory. He had written books on
