Author: Administrador

WHEN I was dating my wife, I took her to an amusement park in Baltimore. They have this ride called the Wild Mouse. I suggested this ride very strategically. You see, it was a ride that I knew would create a little fear in her and therefore create a little situation. The ride would take … Continue reading “TRIALS,
PURPOSE OF”

IF I take a one-hundred-dollar bill and ask a roomful of people who would like to have it, virtually every hand would go up. If I were to take that same bill and ball it up, crumpling it up badly, and then ask who would want it, most people would raise their hands yet again. … Continue reading “TRIALS,
VALUE OF”

ONE time I was flying back from Raleigh, North Carolina. As we approached Dallas, the pilot came over the loudspeaker and said, “There are storms over the Dallas /Fort Worth Airport and the airport has shut down. We can’t land. We have been rerouted to Abilene, Texas. There’s too much bad weather happening over the … Continue reading “TRIALS,
BENEFITS OF”

WE WERE on a ministry cruise to Alaska, spending time with some of the folks who support the Urban Alternative, when a storm broke out. It was a wicked storm. The worst storm some of the crew had ever seen. There were squalls, waves up to forty feet high. We are on a cruise liner … Continue reading “TRIALS,
CONFIDENCE IN”

ONE thing I like about going weight lifting is that I don’t go by myself. When I’m doing the bench press, begin to strain on number twelve or thirteen, and start making weird noises, it becomes obvious that I’m pressing more weight than what I can bear. It becomes evident that if I keep pressing … Continue reading “TRIALS,
ENDURANCE DURING”

HAVE you ever been to work and looked up at the clock to note the time … let’s say that it’s 9:00 a.m. Things are going slow. You may not have much to do or maybe it’s just one of those slow times on the job. You glance at the clock at what seems like … Continue reading “TIME,
PERSPECTIVE ON”

ON October 8, 1871, Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over the lantern at 8:30 p.m. That led to the Great Chicago Fire. It left 100,000 people homeless, 17,500 buildings destroyed, 300 people dead, and 40 million dollars’ worth of damage done—all because a cow kicked over a lantern. One match can burn down a house. The … Continue reading “TONGUE,
POWER OF”

AN ATHEIST professor was walking through the woods one day, admiring the accident of evolution. He looked at the trees and the flowers; he observed the rivers and the animals, and he marveled at the magnificence of evolution. All of a sudden, he heard a rustling in the bushes, and out pounced a seven-foot grizzly … Continue reading “THANKSGIVING,
IMPORTANCE OF”

TWO LITTLE girls one day were acting very badly. They were misbehaving. It was on Thanksgiving Day and their father told them, “Girls, go to your room. You are dismissed from Thanksgiving dinner.” The girls went dejected and sad to their rooms. A few moments later, they heard their mother calling, “Girls, girls, come down … Continue reading “THANKSGIVING,
MOTIVATION FOR”

WHEN you burn a CD, you take the music or the movie and you pass it on so that on the other disc has precisely what was the original disc being burned. The copy is precisely the content of the original. Satan does the same thing when he burns his thoughts into our thinking so … Continue reading “THOUGHT
LIFE”