... pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun." John D. Rockefeller1 Relationships: we all have them. John Donne was right: "No man is an island..."2 I have ... The heartfelt counsel of a friend is as sweet as perfume and incense." (Prov. 27:9) 1 Robert C. Larson, ed., The Best of Ted Engstrom (San Bernadino, CA: Here's Life Publishers, Inc., 1988), 253. 2 Justin Kaplan, ed., Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1992), 230. 3 Larson, 253. 4 Charles ...
Over thirty years ago, the late David H. C. Read preached and published a sermon series on the National Radio Pulpit that he titled Overheard. In that creative volume, he addressed a series of faith issues one might conceivably have overheard at that time. We overhear comments regularly. We might be riding on public transportation and overhear an amusing or telling conversation between two people, perhaps a parent and child; or we might be standing in a church lounge after worship and hear some people ...
