POEMS
POEMS
Once there were two women
who never knew each other.
One you do not remember
the other you call Mother.
PAIN
PAIN
We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and everyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they ...
PANTHEISM
PANTHEISM
As pantheists readily admit, they believe that there is no real difference between good and evil "on the highest level of consciousness." The ab...
PARALYSIS
PARALYSIS
Between the great things that we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
Adolph Mo...
PARDON
PARDON
An item in the May 2, 1985, Kansas City Times reminds us of a story you may be able to use in an evangelistic message. The item had to do with the ...
PARENTING
PARENTING
In the 1950s a psychologist, Stanton Samenow, and a psychiatrist, Samuel Yochelson, sharing the conventional wisdom that crime is caused by envi...
PASSION
PASSION
I have but one passion; it is He, He only.
Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf.
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PASTORING
PASTORING
Three pastors got together for coffee one day and found all their churches had bat-infestation problems. "I got so mad," said one, "I took a sho...
PAST, living in
PAST, living in
One man said to his friend: "Say, you look depressed. What are you thinking about?"
"My future," was the quick answer....
PAST, overcoming
PAST, overcoming
I wish there were some wonderful place called the Land of Beginning Again,
Where all of our past mistakes and heartaches, ...
PATIENCE
PATIENCE
The purposes of God often develop slowly because His grand designs are never hurried. The great New England preacher Phillips Brooks was noted f...
PATRIOTISM
PATRIOTISM
We should behave toward our country as women behave toward the men they love. A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criti...
PEACE
PEACE
I rest beneath the Almighty's shade,
My griefs expire, my troubles cease;
Thou, Lord, on whom my soul is stayed,
PEACEMAKERS
PEACEMAKERS
a person who tries to persuade people or countries to stop arguing or fighting and to make peace
PEACE, of God
PEACE, of God
In my late twenties, a bunch of my friends and I decided to sail around the world. I have to admit, though, at the time I was a bit worried....
PEER PRESSURE
PEER PRESSURE
(see also CONFORMITY)
Crowd control is the method of making sure that a large crowd does not get out of hand. But the term may also re...
PENTECOST
PENTECOST
(see also Acts 2:1-21)
Power can be used in at least two ways: it can be unleashed, or it can be harnessed. The energy in ten gallons of g...
PEOPLE
PEOPLE
In the 1950s, marketing whiz Stanley Arnold was working at Young & Rubicam, where he was asked to come up with a marketing campaign for Remington R...
PERFECTION
PERFECTION
Edwin Bliss said, "The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible wast...
PERFECTIONISM
PERFECTIONISM
And bowling? Odds against rolling a perfect 300 in the game are about 225,000 to one. And one bowler appropriately collapsed when he qualifi...