| In my experience, signs follow decisions. The way you overcome spiritual inertia and produce spiritual momentum is by making tough decisions. And the tougher the decision, the more potential momentum it will produce. The primary reason most of us don't see God moving is simply because we aren't moving.…

Take the case of France. It is said that a century ago men were spending millions every year in France in thepublication and distribution of infidel literature. What has been the harvest? Has France not reaped? Mark the result: "The Bible was suppressed. God was denied. Hell broke loose. Half the children…

A Chicago businessman tells about coming out of his office on a cold, blustery day. The snow and rain and sleet were all mixed up and the wind whipped fiercely about him. He rolled up his collar and ran for his car. But he didn’t reach his car. In the doorway of a store he saw a ten-year-old boy. The…

When the tomb of King Tut was discovered and opened in 1927, a bottle of sealed seeds was found. In time these seeds were planted and produced lovely plants in spite of the fact that they had been “bottled up” for over three thousand years. While on a Bible Lands tour a few years ago, this writer observed…

It Shows in Your Face You don’t have to tell how you live each day; You don’t have to say if you work or you play; A tried, true barometer serves in the place – However you live, it will show in your face. The false, the deceit that you bear in your heart, Will not stay inside where it first got a start;…

A man moves to a new city to live. He meets an old sage upon arrival and asks him, “Old man, are the people in this town friendly?” The old man, wise for his age, says: “How did you find the people in the town that you left?” If the stranger replies, “Oh, I found them warm and friendly,” then the old…

It is never wise to seek or wish for another’s misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. Reader’s Digest, April, 1991, page 33

Several years after inventing radar, Sir Robert Watson-Watt was arrested in Canada for speeding. He'd been caught in a radar trap. He wrote this poem: Pity Sir Robert Watson-Watt, strange target of his radar plot, and this, with others I could mention, a victim of his own invention. preachingtoday.c…

Life, like a mirror, never gives back more that we put into it. Speaker’s Sourcebook, Eleanor Doan, page 145

A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Late in the week the man realized that he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 a.m. for an early morning business flight to Chicago. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence AND LOSE, he wrote…

“Mary,” said her mother reprovingly, “every time you disobey, I get another grey hair.” “Gee, Mom,” Mary answered, “so it was you who gave Grandma all her grey hair.” Braude’s Treasury of Wit and Humor, Jacob M. Braude, page 147

Paid in Full A physician vacationing in the Cumberland mountains stopped at a cabin for a drink of water. A girl gave him a glass and then said, “Wouldn’t you like to have a glass of cold milk?” The physician drank it, and offered to pay for it. The girl said, “No, we like to share.” Two years later,…

A man was sitting in a cafe when all of a sudden some one came in and beat him up. When he woke up he said to the owner: “Who was that?” “That was Kung Fu from China,” replied the owner. Next week the man was eating in the same cafe when a different person entered and beat him up. When he woke up he…