... disappear tomorrow, nobody would miss me!" But Lucy hears him and says, "Oh, I don't think that's true, Charlie Brown..." Charlie Brown gets his hopes up. "You don't?", he asks. Lucy responds, "No, I don't think that's strictly ... and help the whole human race was from Lebanon!" (Maxie, is this a sermon from Norman Neaves, or do we need a reference here from Trotter?). That's a telling commentary upon us, isn't it? For Christians, it boils down to this. First and foremost, we must remember that we are ...
... to Chile, from South Africa to the West Bank, is the cry for freedom. The walls have fallen and Checkpoint Charlie is no more. Structures of political oppression are changing in the Soviet Union and various Eastern Bloc Nations. Where tyranny ... inspiring words of Adoniram Judson: "The future is as bright as the promises of God." In Christ, we are truly "free". 1. Mark Trotter, "Grace All the Way Home," THE UPPER ROOM (Nashville, TN: 1982), pg. 135. 2. Maxie Dunnam, THE COMMUNICATOR'S COMMENTARY, Volume 8, ...
I have heard people talk about the power of laughter to heal. I came across it first in a book written by Norman Cousins some years ago called, Anatomy of an Illness. It was a story of his own debilitating illness, and how he conquered it with laughter. It seems that he was overseas at a meeting, and felt a fever coming on. In no time at all he found himself in the hospital, his situation diagnosed as a degenerative arthritic condition. The prognosis was not good. At best, he would have life-long paralysis ...
Noah Webster, for whom the dictionary was named, was a lexicographer. He is responsible for the standardizing of American English at the beginning of the 19th century. As you might imagine, he was a stickler for the proper definition of words. One day his wife opened the kitchen door and discovered Noah kissing the maid. Mrs. Webster exclaimed, "Why Noah, I'm surprised!" He said, "No, my dear. We're surprised. You are amazed." A surprise refers to the unexpected. Amazement refers to being made speechless, ...
