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4251. Epitaph

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Editor James S. Hewett

An Indiana cemetery has a tombstone (more than a hundred years old) which bears the following epitaph: Pause Stranger, when you pass me by, As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you will be, So prepare for death and follow me." An unknown passerby read those words and underneath scratched this reply: To follow you I'm not content, Until I know which way you went.

4252. Plutarch's Consolatory Letter to His Wife

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Editor James S. Hewett

... daughter Timoxena, who died at the age of two: The messenger you sent to tell me of the death of my little daughter missed his way. But I heard of it through another. I pray you let all things be done without ceremony or timorous superstition. And let us bear our affliction with patience. I do know very well what a loss we have had; but, if you should grieve overmuch, it would trouble me still more. She was particularly dear to you; and when you call to mind how bright and innocent she was, how amiable and ...

4253. Heaven and Earth

Revelation 21:1-27

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Robert Capon

Heaven or heavenly in the New Testament bear little relation to the meanings we have so unscripturally attached to them. For us, heaven is an unearthly, humanly irrelevant condition in which bed-sheeted, paper-winged spirits sit on clouds and play tinkly music until their pipe-cleaner halos drop off from boredom.... But in Scripture, it is a ...

4254. Parental Influence

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Editor James S. Hewett

... my parents sat. "I took my seat, my heart pounding, my cheeks burning. Dr. Hastings started to preach. At first, I hardly heard him. Then his words reached me, ‘God is our refuge and strength, a tested help in time of trouble.’ "My own trouble seemed to bear down on me with tremendous weight that morning. I felt I had more than my share of grief, and I knew I needed help. I realized how desperate life in our family was without God, and that day I recommitted my life to Him. As Dr. Hastings preached ...

4255. The Gift of Encouraging Words

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Editor James S. Hewett

... great place to glean some profound insights into life is from children’s stories. On a Winnie the Pooh record, for instance, there is a scene that is a delightful illustration of our desire to hear words that are friendly and warm, rather than harsh or hard: One day Pooh Bear is about to go for a walk in the Hundred Acre wood. It’s about 11:30 in the morning. It is a fine time to go calling—just before lunch. So Pooh sets out across the stream, stepping on the stones, and when he gets right in the ...

4256. Saved Alone

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Editor James S. Hewett

... buffet, though trials should come, Let this blest assurance control, That Christ has regarded my helpless estate, And hath shed His own blood for my soul. My sin-Oh, the bliss of this glorious thought, My sin-not in part, but the whole, Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul! And, Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight, The clouds be rolled back as a scroll, The trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend, "Even so"—it is well with my soul.

4257. The Extravagance of God

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Ralph W. Seager

More sky than man can see, More seas than he can sail, More sun than he can bear to watch, More stars than he can scale. More breath than he can breathe, More yield than he can sow, More grace than he can comprehend, More love than he can know.

4258. Tallest Tales Department

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Editor James S. Hewett

A man was being chased by a ferocious tiger. He ran until he came to a sheer cliff. As the tiger came bearing down on him, he grabbed a rope hanging over the cliff and climbed down out of the tiger's reach. The man looked up and saw the tiger leering at him, waiting to devour him. Then he looked down below the cliff. There was a deadly drop to the rocks ...

4259. I Was There

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Editor James S. Hewett

... When They Crucified My Lord?" As he finished singing, a tear trickled down the face of Helen Keller. Indistinctly, she said, as the words were repeated by the lady with her: "I was there!" "Deaf, blind, mute from birth?" you say. "Isn't that too much for one individual to bear?" No, as a matter of fact, of all the women in this nation there was probably no contemporary who gave others more insight into the meaning of suffering than Helen Keller ... or more insight into the love of God.

4260. Specifications for a Husband

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Ruth Bell Graham

... did give the thought of a husband some serious consideration. She wrote the following list of particulars: "If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said, he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the burden of a family. His lips must be strong enough to smile, firm enough to say no, and tender enough to kiss. Love must be so deep that it takes its stand in Christ and so wide that it takes the whole lost world in. He must be active ...

4261. Money Magnates

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Editor James S. Hewett

... was the president of a steel company. Richard Whitney was the president of the New York Stock Exchange, and Arthur Cutton was a wheat speculator. Albert Fall was a presidential cabinet member, personally a very wealthy man. Jesse Livermore was the greatest bear on Wall Street in his generation. Leon Fraser was the president of the International Bank of Settlements. Ivan Krueger headed the largest monopoly. Quite an impressive group of people! Let's look at the same group later in life. Charles Schwab died ...

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

Ann Landers

4263. One Pastor's Answer to What He Does

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Editor James S. Hewett

... pills or knife. He prays for people and hopes they pray for him. He leads worship and tries to make God real to those present. He sows God's Word and cultivates God's vineyard so that we may have deep roots in Christ and bear abundant fruits of the Spirit. He is a manager, administrator, correspondent, keeper of official records. He is sometimes a lawyer, often a social worker, frequently a one-man emergency squad. He is the favorite target of panhandlers and a decorative piece at public functions. He ...

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

4265. Maternal Legacy

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Editor James S. Hewett

... the following confession: "Looking forward to the time when my earthly career will end, I desire to set forth at the very beginning of this will, as the most important item in it, a confession of my faith in Jesus Christ as my Savior. I also desire to bear witness to the fact that throughout my life, in which there were unusual joys and sorrows, I have been wonderfully sustained by my faith in God through Jesus Christ. This legacy was left me by my consecrated mother, a woman of strong faith, and to it I ...

4266. My Symphony

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William Ellery Channing

To live content with small means, To seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; To be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, To listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, To bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common: This is to be my symphony.

4267. The Dollar Carries the Message

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Vincent Peale

Like so many other everyday things, even our money bears witness to the fact that ours is a God-founded nation, and it emphasizes the additional fact that as a nation we rely upon Divine Providence. On the dollar bill is a pyramid, which represents the building of our country. The pyramid is unfinished symbolizing that our nation is not ...

4268. Flower and Serpent

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William Shakespeare

To beguile the time, Look like the time, bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under 't.

4269. The Little Secrets of Snowflakes

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Chad Miller

... or shattered, these are often the circumstances God uses to let our faith touch someone close to us and be the seed for a new and beautiful life in Christ. To many, the reason we face difficulties in life is a great mystery. But to us, we live expecting to bear burdens for our Savior and anticipating that the pressures we endure will be used by God to produce new life in others! Remember, Christ uses Christians to make Christians. Look for Him to use you!

4270. Jesus' Guide to Wise Investing

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... somebody else would enjoy them. There is a third possibility, of course. Maybe God called him foolish because he never understood how to get the most joy from his wealth. What could you do with your money that would give you the grandest feeling you have ever had? Bear with me for a moment. I sincerely believe that you and I could get more joy from life if we learned to take missions more seriously. How much would it mean to you personally to save one child’s life this morning? I’m not getting you ready ...

4271. Time to Pick a Side

Luke 12:49-53

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King Duncan

... out onto the field and began fighting. It’s one of the most notable examples of fan riots in American sports history. (2) Sports fans used to be the ultimate example of rabid loyalty, of divisiveness. You can’t cheer for both the Packers and the Bears. You have to choose. Either you love the Lakers and hate the Celtics, or you love the Celtics and hate the Lakers. Pick a side. But sadly, those aren’t the biggest divisions in our country anymore. Today we are divided over politics, values, lifestyles ...

4272. No One Over 12 Inches Wide Need Apply

Luke 13:22-30

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King Duncan

... your spouse and compromise your wedding vows. Successful living requires making hard choices. The newspapers carried a story about a woman who was divorcing her husband after discovering that he had two other wives and several children by each of them. His explanation: He couldn’t bear the thought of hurting any of them, so he had married all three. He was a traveling salesman, so he was able to carry out this farce for several years. Many of us do not want to make the hard choices that life requires of ...

4273. We Are Not Alone

John 14:15-31

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Robert C. Cochran

... this ever struck you as odd? Douglas MacArthur vowed, “I shall return.” Arnold Schwarzenegger threatened, “I’ll be back!” But Jesus said he’d always be with us. The book of Matthew begins with an angel telling Joseph that Mary will bear a child who will be called “Emmanuel”: Emmanuel means “God is with us.” The assumption is that, unlike Elvis, Jesus is not leaving the building! (After every Elvis Presley concert someone would announce that Elvis had left the building, so the faithful ...

4274. Plimsoll Mark

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King Duncan

... friend. Commenting on this, the “Sunday School Times” made the following spiritual application: “In God’s sight each of us has an unseen ‘Plimsoll mark.’ Therefore, the temptations and trials He allows to come our way will never exceed our capacity to bear them. He knows our limit.” Note: Still in use today but is typically referred to as simply the "Waterline." A ship can have several waterlines for various conditions such as water types and temperatures in order to safely maintain buoyancy,

4275. The New World

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King Duncan

... and secure world became a world of terror. He grew up as a Jewish orphan in Berlin. On a cold January day in 1933 when he was only 15 years old, he was walking his little sister home from school when he saw at a newsstand a headline bearing frightening news that would change his life, change the life of all Jews, change the life of the whole world. “Adolph Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany,” the headline read. Later in his life, Hobsbawm reflected on that moment and said it was as if “we were on ...

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4251. Epitaph

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4252. Plutarch's Consolatory Letter to His Wife

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4253. Heaven and Earth

Revelation 21:1-27

Illustration

Robert Capon

4254. Parental Influence

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4255. The Gift of Encouraging Words

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4256. Saved Alone

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4257. The Extravagance of God

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Ralph W. Seager

4258. Tallest Tales Department

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4259. I Was There

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4260. Specifications for a Husband

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Ruth Bell Graham

4261. Money Magnates

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

Ann Landers

4263. One Pastor's Answer to What He Does

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

4265. Maternal Legacy

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4266. My Symphony

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William Ellery Channing

4267. The Dollar Carries the Message

Illustration

Vincent Peale

4268. Flower and Serpent

Illustration

William Shakespeare

To beguile the time, Look like the time, bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under 't.

4269. The Little Secrets of Snowflakes

Illustration

Chad Miller

4270. Jesus' Guide to Wise Investing

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

4271. Time to Pick a Side

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

King Duncan

4272. No One Over 12 Inches Wide Need Apply