Wisdom

Here are some words of wisdom making the rounds: 1. Keep your word soft and tender, because tomorrow you may have to eat them. 2. Opportunities are never lost; someone else will take the ones you miss. 3. Love, not time, heals all wounds 4. To ignore the facts does not change the facts.

Wealth

From time to time we read stories that prove to us that money doesn't buy happiness. Recently, newspapers carried the story of Mack Metcalf and Virginia Metcalf Merida who won 65.4 million dollars in the lottery. They quit their jobs and bought large homes, but five years later they w

The Tongue

Recently newspapers, radio and TV carried the tragic, but comic, story of a man who was determined to finally get rid of a troublesome mouse. The man threw the stunned mouse on a pile of leaves he was burning. The mouse caught fire and ran back into the house. Lucian Mares watched helplessl

Priorities – Hoarding

A tragic story was carried by the media about a Shelton, Washington woman who was found smothered under a pile of clutter-clutter of her own making. Sixty-two year old Marie Rose suffered from obsessive-compulsive hoarding. Things were so cluttered that searchers heads touched the ceiling an

Priorities

A wonderful little piece has been making the rounds on the Internet. Perhaps you have seen it. It is a list of things God will not ask you on the day you meet him: 1. God won't ask what kind of car you drove. He'll ask how many people you drove who didn't have transportation. 2. God won

Parenting

Someone once advised mothers that if they have a lot of tension and get headaches, to do exactly what it says on an aspirin bottle: "Take two aspirin," and "Keep away from children." _______________ J. Michael Shannon is professor of preaching at Cincinnati Bible Col

Potential

Do you remember the story of the ugly duckling? He didn't walk like a duck, he didn't quack like a duck, and he didn't look like a duck, but he lived among the ducks in the barnyard. Then one fine day, he heard a call from above. He had never heard it before, but in him was an instinct that

If You Could Tell Your Preacher…

Eight Themes From People Who Listen To Sermons If you had one or two things you could tell your preacher that would help energize you when you are listening to a sermon, what would they be? That question was the last one put to 263 people interviewed for a study sponsored by the Lilly Endowme

Life & Death

A television station in Cincinnati, Ohio reported a strange story about a woman whose family could not bear to say good-bye. Even though Johanna Pope had been dead for three years, it was reported that her family and friends would from time to time come to visit her body. She had been propp