By: JDI – Dave Illingworth When Jesus visited Earth 2,000 years ago, the Jewish people were struggling to figure out how to please God and get Him to send the Messiah to restore Israel to her rightful place in the world. The...
STOP AND THINK Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. (Dr. Herbert A. Otto, author) There is no doubt that growth often involves a willingness to make...
STOP AND THINK: Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. (Albert Einstein, noted theoretical scientist) Bike riders know full well that the slower they pedal, the more difficult it is to stay upright. As...
STOP AND THINK: Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. (Benjamin Franklin, statesman, inventor, and author of practical maxims)...
By: Julia Somerset I have been rereading some great Christian works lately, and I recently came across a section of Dante’s Divine Comedy that grabbed me. The Comedy is divided into three sections: Hell, Purgatory, and...
STOP AND THINK: Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century essayist and poet) Who can you trust? We’re living in a time when it seems difficult...
STOP AND THINK: It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth. (John Locke, 17th century English philosopher) It’s so easy to criticize—to see other’s errors and, too often, to...
By: Jesse Deloe In the life of almost everyone, there comes a time when one thing ends and something else begins. Life is full of ends and beginnings. While endings are many times sad and hard, it is very often true that good things...
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. (Helen Keller, lecturer & author)) We might think this is a gross overstatement until we realize who said it. Helen Keller suffered severe disabilities including being blind and...
By: Lynda Shadel I have to admire the persistence of my hunter dogs, Wally and Charlie. Once they tree a squirrel, they stand on their back legs at the base of the tree and bark and bark and bark—believing the barking will make the...
There is no key to happiness. The door is always open. (Unknown) We’re always looking for keys—the key to success, the key to riches, the key to lasting love, and, of course, the key to happiness. Like so many other doors whose keys we’re...
Isn’t it interesting that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them? (Orville Wright, pilot of the first powered airplane flight) When Orville and Wilbur Wright accomplished the impossible by flying a...
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