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Esteem age and you will always have life to look forward to. Esteem youth and you proclaim your own obsolescence.

Nothing comes out of man’s physical body that is either pleasing to look at or pleasing to smell. Likewise there is nothing that comes out of man’s heart that is pleasing to God for salvation.

Michael P. Green

Whatever the answer to why there is evil and suffering in the world, this much is true: God took his own medicine.

Michael P. Green

You can bring a pig into the parlor, but that doesn’t change the pig—though it certainly changes the parlor!

Michael P. Green

Remember that the powers-that-be will someday be the powers-that-have-been.

Michael P. Green

Nothing is easier than faultfinding: no talent, no self-denial, no brains, and no character are required to set up in the grumbling business.

Michael P. Green

He that falls into sin is man. He that grieves at sin is a saint. He that boasts of sin is a devil. He that forgives our sin is God.

Michael P. Green

Vision that looks inward becomes duty. Vision that looks outward becomes aspiration. Vision that looks upward becomes faith.

Michael P. Green

9. 10% at A time

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Michael P. Green

The process of sanctification can be compared to an iceberg, which is almost 90 percent under water. As the sun shines on the iceberg, the exposed part melts, moving the lower part upward. In the same way, we are usually aware of only a small part of our sinfulness and need, which is all we can deal with at any one time. However, as the light of God’s work in our lives changes us in the areas we k...

10. 80% Emotions

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Michael P. Green

The human personality is said to consist of roughly four-fifths emotions and one-fifth intellect. This means that our decisions are arrived at on the basis of 80 percent emotion and only 20 percent intellect. To engage in a confrontation, or even a discussion, without taking emotions into account is to be only 20 percent effective in your dealings with people.

11. A Candy Crises

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Michael P. Green

A father was walking down the street with his two small sons, both of whom were crying loudly. A neighbor passing by inquired, “What’s the matter? Why all the fuss?” The father responded, “The trouble with these lads is what’s wrong with the world. One has a piece of candy and the other wants it!”

12. A Clerical Citation

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Michael P. Green

A minister parked his car in a no-parking zone in a large city because he was short of time and couldn’t find a space with a meter. So he put a note under the windshield wiper that read: “I have circled the block ten times. If I don’t park here, I’ll miss my appointment. Forgive us our trespasses.” When he returned, he found a citation from a police officer along with this note: “I’ve circled thi...

13. A Damaged Rudder

James 3:4

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Michael P. Green

On May 21, 1941, the “unsinkable” German battleship, the Bismarck, was sighted in the North Atlantic. Immediately planes and ships from the Royal British Navy sped to the scene. As the Bismarck headed toward the German-controlled French coast where it would be safe from attack, to the astonishment of all the massive battleship suddenly swung around and reentered the area where the British ships we...

14. A Dead Spirit Feels No Guilt

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Michael P. Green

A flippant youth asked a preacher, “You say that unsaved people carry a weight of sin. I feel nothing. How heavy is sin? Is it ten pounds? Eighty pounds?” The preacher replied by asking the youth, “If you laid a four-hundred-pound weight on a corpse, would it feel the load?” The youth replied, “It would feel nothing, because it is dead.” The preacher concluded, “That spirit, too, is indeed dead w...

15. A Familiar Voice

John 10:4

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Michael P. Green

During World War I, it is said that some Turkish soldiers tried to steal a flock of sheep from a hillside near Jerusalem. The shepherd, who had been sleeping, suddenly awakened to see his sheep being driven off on the other side of the ravine. He could not hope to recapture his flock by force single-handedly, but suddenly he had a thought. Standing up on his side of the ravine, he put his hands to...

16. A Fatherly Substitute

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Michael P. Green

One Thanksgiving afternoon, while waiting for the expected feast, two sisters went outside to play. Being a bit mischievous, they soon found something that looked like fun to do, which all too soon led them to something they had been told not to do. Their father came into the backyard and found the evidence of their disobedience and called them to him. He explained to the girls that they must go t...

17. A Flying Buttress

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Michael P. Green

Someone asked Sir Winston Churchill, “Are you a pillar of the church?” He quipped, “I am more of a flying buttress: I support it from the outside.”

18. A Hot Foot Washing

John 13:1-17

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Michael P. Green

When you go to another to wash his feet, or when another comes to wash your feet, be concerned as to the temperature of the water! Some come with boiling hot water. They are so angry, so upset, so distracted by something that has happened in the past—and so mad about it—that they come to the other person and say, “Here, stick your feet in here!” Nobody wants to have his feet washed with boiling w...

19. A Little Silver

Lk 12:13-21; 16:19-31

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Michael P. Green

One day a certain old, rich man of a miserable disposition visited a rabbi, who took the rich man by the hand and led him to a window. “Look out there,” he said. The rich man looked into the street, “What do you see?” asked the rabbi. “I see men, women, and children,” answered the rich man. Again the rabbi took him by the hand and this time led him to a mirror. “Now what do you see?” “Now I see...

20. A Luxury that Destroys

Mk 10:17-31

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Michael P. Green

The story of a butterfly named "Maculinea Arion" is most instructive. The creature lays its eggs on a plant, and after feeding on the plant for several weeks the young caterpillar makes its way to the ground. In order to complete its development, it must meet a certain kind of ant. When such an ant meets the caterpillar, the ant strokes it with its antennae, and the caterpillar exudes a sweet flui...

21. A New Deal

Humor Illustration

Michael P. Green

Unhappy spouse to marriage counselor: When I got married I was looking for an ideal. Then it became an ordeal. Now I want a new deal.

22. A New Status

Acts 19:2

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Michael P. Green

The story has been told of a group of colonists who left Virginia in the late 1700s and started across the mountains to the land that lay far to the west. As the story goes, they were forced to interrupt their journey for some reason, perhaps fear of Indians, or the death of a horse, or the breakdown of a wagon. For whatever reason, they spent twenty years in the mountains, during which time they ...

23. A Parental Judgment

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Michael P. Green

Neglect is one of the most devastating ways a parent can abuse a child. O. Henry, in one of his short stories, tells of a little girl whose mother had died. When the father would come home from work, he would fix their meal, then he would sit down with his paper and pipe, put his feet up on the hassock, and read. The little girl would come in and say, “Father, would you play with me?” And he would...

24. A Pie-Crust Promise

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Michael P. Green

In the movie Mary Poppins, the two children, Jane and Michael Banks, jumped into bed after their incredible first day with the amazing Mary Poppins. Jane asked, “Mary Poppins, you won’t ever leave us, will you?” Michael, full of excitement, looked at his new nanny and added, “Will you stay if we promise to be good?” Mary looked at the two and as she tucked them in replied, “Look, that’s a pie-crus...

25. A Professor's Definition

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Michael P. Green

If Jesus came to certain theological schools today and asked the professors, “And you, who do you think I am?” what do you think they might reply? Some might answer, “You are the eschatological manifestation of the kerygma in which we recognize the ultimate significance of our interpersonal relations.” And Jesus would probably say, “What?!”

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Esteem age and you will always have life to look forward to. Esteem youth and you proclaim your own obsolescence.

Michael P. Green

Nothing comes out of man’s physical body that is either pleasing to look at or pleasing to smell. Likewise there is nothing that comes out of man’s heart that is pleasing to God for salvation.

Michael P. Green

Whatever the answer to why there is evil and suffering in the world, this much is true: God took his own medicine.

Michael P. Green

You can bring a pig into the parlor, but that doesn’t change the pig—though it certainly changes the parlor!

Michael P. Green

Remember that the powers-that-be will someday be the powers-that-have-been.

Michael P. Green

Nothing is easier than faultfinding: no talent, no self-denial, no brains, and no character are required to set up in the grumbling business.

Michael P. Green

He that falls into sin is man. He that grieves at sin is a saint. He that boasts of sin is a devil. He that forgives our sin is God.

Michael P. Green

Vision that looks inward becomes duty. Vision that looks outward becomes aspiration. Vision that looks upward becomes faith.

Michael P. Green

9. 10% at A time

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Michael P. Green

10. 80% Emotions

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Michael P. Green

11. A Candy Crises

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Michael P. Green

12. A Clerical Citation

Humor Illustration

Michael P. Green

13. A Damaged Rudder

James 3:4

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Michael P. Green

14. A Dead Spirit Feels No Guilt

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Michael P. Green

15. A Familiar Voice

John 10:4

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Michael P. Green

16. A Fatherly Substitute

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Michael P. Green

17. A Flying Buttress

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Michael P. Green

Someone asked Sir Winston Churchill, “Are you a pillar of the church?” He quipped, “I am more of a flying buttress: I support it from the outside.”

18. A Hot Foot Washing

John 13:1-17

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Michael P. Green

19. A Little Silver

Lk 12:13-21; 16:19-31

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Michael P. Green

20. A Luxury that Destroys

Mk 10:17-31

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Michael P. Green

21. A New Deal

Humor Illustration

Michael P. Green

Unhappy spouse to marriage counselor: When I got married I was looking for an ideal. Then it became an ordeal. Now I want a new deal.

22. A New Status

Acts 19:2

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Michael P. Green

23. A Parental Judgment

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Michael P. Green

24. A Pie-Crust Promise

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Michael P. Green

25. A Professor's Definition

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Michael P. Green

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