TRANSMUTATION is changing one thing into something else. For example, when you go to the pharmacist, you transmute your funds. You exchange money for medicine. The money is turned into something that helps your body. The money itself cannot help your body. You must transmute it and turn it into something else to help you. … Continue reading “MONEY,
USE OF”
MINISTRY, IMPORTANCE OF
TURKEYS are interested in one thing: eating. They can’t fly. They try, but they don’t go anywhere. They just take food in and waddle around. Wherever you see them, they are waddling—waddling and eating, but not flying. There are a lot of Christian turkeys today. They waddle in on Sunday morning and sit down to … Continue reading “MINISTRY,
IMPORTANCE OF”
MEN, WEAKNESS OF
A LITTLE boy watched his dad leave for a business trip and figured that he was now in charge. He had two sisters, so he announced to them after his father left that he was now the head of the family. That night at dinner, he decided to sit in his dad’s chair. His mother … Continue reading “MEN,
WEAKNESS OF”
MEN, AND THEIR WIVES
I DON’T know if you’ve seen one but there are square watermelons now. Of course people are trying to figure out how making a square watermelon is possible. Normally the fruit is oblong. But, somebody somewhere decided to try growing a watermelon in a square container. The idea was to control the size of a … Continue reading “MEN,
AND THEIR WIVES”
MEN
THERE was a special on TV about a herd of young male elephants that were running wild. They were running over trees, fighting each other, and creating havoc in their environment. They were male elephants gone wild, and experts were trying to figure out what was happening. Finally they noticed that there were no adult … Continue reading “MEN”
MATERIALISM, REMEDY FOR
A MAN one day came to the pastor and said, “Pastor, when I was making $30,000 a year, I’d give generously to the Lord. I’m making $150,000 and I don’t have anything to give to the Lord. Would you pray for me?” The pastor said, “Let’s pray. Lord, would You please take this brother back … Continue reading “MATERIALISM,
REMEDY FOR”
MATERIALISM, PERSPECTIVE OF
IN ONE of his skits, the comedian Jack Benny would pretend to be robbed. A thief would approach him with a gun and say, “Sir, your money or your life?” Jack Benny would always put his fingers up to his head and look puzzled. The robber would repeat, “Your money or your life?” After a … Continue reading “MATERIALISM,
PERSPECTIVE OF”
MATERIALISM, NATURE OF
WE HAVE got to be the only country in the world that builds storage facilities so that people can rent space to house stuff that their house can no longer hold. We literally pay rent to keep stuff because we accumulate so much. If you want to make some money and you have some money … Continue reading “MATERIALISM,
NATURE OF”
MATERIALISM, DECEPTION OF
THERE was a couple who had a cat. The woman loved the cat. The husband hated the cat. The cat would leave its hairs all over the place and it drove the husband insane. One day the wife went on a vacation and asked her husband to take care of the cat for her until … Continue reading “MATERIALISM,
DECEPTION OF”
MARRIAGE, UNHAPPINESS IN
A WOMAN once said, “My husband and I have a very happy marriage. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for him, and there’s nothing he wouldn’t do for me. So we’ve gone through life doing nothing for each other.”609 [Love, Lack of; Women, and Their Husbands] SOME people think marriage is just three rings: the engagement … Continue reading “MARRIAGE,
UNHAPPINESS IN”