MEDICINE
MEDICINE
If Dracula were interested in drugstores, he'd shop at Sargent's in Chicago. In fact, store manager Harvey Snitman says he's more ...
MEDIOCRITY
MEDIOCRITY
Life is a leaf of paper white
Whereon each one of us may write
His word or two, and then comes night.
Gr...
MEDITATION
MEDITATION
The following illustration from A Primer on Meditation points out what happens when the mind is directed and focused on one thing: "M.A. Rosano...
IRRITATION
IRRITATION
Imagine all of the obstacles a person might have to overcome if he were to walk from New York City to San Francisco. One man who accomplished t...
ISLAM
ISLAM
If you think the SAT tests are tough, don't bother applying to the University of Al Azhar in Cairo, Egypt. Though the ancient school has been g...
ISMS
ISMS
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Commentary an...
ISOLATION
ISOLATION
In 1832, French engineer Ferdinand Marie Lesseps was traveling in the Mediterranean when one of the passengers became sick and the ship was quar...
JACOB
JACOB
See Paul Harvey, The Rest of the Story, p. 84.
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JANUARY
JANUARY
January is the month when we start paying on December bills and on November election results.
James Holt McGavran, Ideas for Better ...
JEALOUSY
JEALOUSY
It is the eyes of other people that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.
B...
JESUS
JESUS
(see also CHRIST)
He began His ministry by being hungry, yet He is the Bread of Life.
Jesus ended His earthly ministry by being thirsty...
JESUS AS SAVIOR
JESUS AS SAVIOR
(see also CHRIST and SAVIOR)
D.M. Stearns was preaching in Philadelphia. At the close of the service a stranger came up to him and s...
JESUS, birth of
JESUS, birth of
On a plaque marking Abraham Lincoln's birthplace near Hodgenville, Kentucky, is recorded this scrap of conversation: "Any news down &...
JESUS, name of
JESUS, name of
There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely be...
JOY
JOY
Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite j...
JUDGMENT
JUDGMENT
The idea of hell and judgment are nowhere to be found [in Betty Eadie's bestseller, Embraced By The Light, on the N.Y. Times bestseller list...
JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST
JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST
My greatest thought is my accountability to God.
Daniel Webster.
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JUDGING
JUDGING
It was F.B. Meyer, I believe, who once said that when we see a brother or sister in sin, there are two things we do not know: First, we do not kno...
JUSTICE
JUSTICE
A socialist once came to see Andrew Carnegie and soon was railing against the injustice of Carnegie having so much money. In his view, wealth was ...
JUSTIFICATION
JUSTIFICATION
My friend Dr. Roy Gustafson has the finest illustration of justification I have ever heard. It seems that there was a man in England who put...