LIE
LIE
Famous American Fibs
- The check is in the mail.
- I'll start my diet tomorrow.
- We service what we sell....
LIFE
LIFE
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Richard L. Evans, Bits & Pieces, March 4, 1993, p...
LIGHT
LIGHT
Making decisions in the dark can lead to some regrettable consequences. Back in the days before electricity, a tightfisted old farmer was taking his...
LIMITATIONS
LIMITATIONS
After physicist Richard Feynman won a Nobel prize for his work, he visited his old high school. While there, he decided to look up his records...
LINCOLN
LINCOLN
I don't know who my grandfather was, I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln.
LISTENING
LISTENING
Writer Charles Swindoll once found himself with too many commitments in too few days. He got nervous and tense about it. "I was snapping at my w...
LOGIC
LOGIC
Here are some tongue-in-cheek food safety "facts" from New York's Miner Institute:
- Neary all sick people have eaten carrots. Ob...
LONELINESS
LONELINESS
"They are ungoverned yet unfree," said Walter Lippmann of such morally bereft and helpless souls. One of the most influential and statesmanlike...
LONGEVITY
LONGEVITY
In 1972, NASA launched the exploratory space probe Pioneer 10. According to Leon Jaroff in Time, the satellite's primary mission was to rea...
LORDSHIP OF CHRIST
LORDSHIP OF CHRIST
(see also COMMITMENT and DISCIPLESHIP)
Peter T. Forsythe was right when he said, "The first duty of every soul is to find not its...
LOSS
LOSS
The great composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) lived much of his life in fear of deafness. He was concerned because he felt the sense of hearing...
LOST
LOST
Maryann's Law: You can always find what you're not looking for.
Source Unknown.
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LOSTNESS
LOSTNESS
A recent novel by Madeleine L'Engle is entitled A Severed Wasp. If you're addressing young people or some other audience with strong st...
LOT
LOT
Although Lot is referred to by Peter as "righteous Lot," he chose to live among the wicked in Sodom because he loved money and prominence. He was a do...
LOVE
LOVE
Newspaper columnist and minister George Crane tells of a wife who came into his office full of hatred toward her husband. "I do not only want to get ...
LOVE, example of
LOVE, example of
On May 2, 1962, a dramatic advertisement appeared in the San Francisco Examiner: "I don't want my husband to die in the gas chamber ...
LOVE, feigned
LOVE, feigned
I was attending a junior stock show when a grand-champion lamb, owned by a little girl, was being auctioned. As the bids reached five dollar...
LOVE FOR GOD
LOVE FOR GOD
My God, I love Thee; not because
I hope for heaven thereby,
Nor yet because who love Thee not
Are lost...
LOVE, law of
LOVE, law of
Dr. Mitchell was impressing upon us that we are not under the Law when we're in Christ, but we're under a new law -- the law of LOV...
LOVE OF ENEMIES
LOVE OF ENEMIES
In The Grace of Giving, Stephen Olford tells of a Baptist pastor during the American Revolution, Peter Miller, who lived in Ephrata, Penn...