Enthusiasm

Chuck Swindoll has a close friend who spent a day at San Diego's SeaWorld. "While he and his wife were near the main mall, they saw something unusual in the distance: a bunch of ducks coming toward them on roller skates! They could do it, my friend said, but as they got closer, he could tell...

Church Attendance

Do you have a problem with attendance? It is the matter of getting people to show up at the services. How is this for a positive? There are 22,000,000 persons who show up each day at McDonalds. They never give up on giving you a reason for being at their place. Probably the most clever and...

Perspective

A parts manager for a small electronics shop, had occasion to order part No. 669 from the factory. But when he received it he noticed that someone had sent part No. 699 instead. Furious at the factory's...

Influence

A French criminologist named Emile Locard came up with an idea which he called Locard's exchange principle. It says that any person passing through a room will unknowingly leave something there and take something away. That means that any encounter we have with people today leaves us and...

Discouragement

The company of the discouraged is a very noble company. Not too long ago, the Hayden Planetarium in New York City issued an invitation to all those who were interested in applying to be a part of the crew on the first journey to another planet. Eighteen thousand people applied. They gave the applications to...

Newlyweds

"If you'll make the toast and pour the juice, Sweetheart," said the newlywed bride, "breakfast will be ready." "Good, what are we having for breakfast?" asked the new husband...

Letters To Santa

From a book by Bill Adler entitled, Children's Letters to Santa Claus. Listen to some of them. "Dear Santa, Last year you left a water gun for my brother, Billy. This Christmas leave one for me so I can shoot back." ...