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Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order merely to keep fo...

If you aren't practicing, someone else is. In the 1880s a young man who was an earnest Christian found employment in a pawnshop. Althou...

- A Study In Bureaucracy - Once upon a time Byron Council and Ballina Council decided to engage in an annual boat race on the Belongil Creek...

We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty...

When Polish pianist Ignace Jan Paderewsky played before Queen Victoria, he won her enthusiastic approval. "Mr. Paderewsky," she ex...

A traveler nearing a great city asked an old man seated by the road, "What are the people like in this city?" The man replied, ...

If you treat people to a vision of themselves, if you apparently overrate them, you make them become of what they are capable of becoming. Y...

We are blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious If...

What if God couldn't take the time to bless us today because we couldn't take the time to thank Him yesterday? What if God decided t...

FIRST, take out the furniture: leave a few old blankets, a kitchen table, maybe a wooden chair. You've never had a bed, remember? SECOND...

Talk about a big mistake! A cake decorator was asked by a bride to inscribe I John 4:18 on a wedding cake. Unfortunately, the decorator did...

A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom and...

At this dawning, shall we choose His direction or plot a course where temporal achievements define reward and promise hope in a fleeting and...

Creating and renewing God, as we worship you this day, we recognise that we stand in the great flow of your Spirit’s work throughout all the...

Practice patience: Smile often: Savour special moments: Live God’s message: Make new friends: Discover old ones: Tell those you love that yo...

It’s a busy world we live in, We get caught up in the race, And at times our sense of values Slips a little out of place It’s a good thing t...

Life is just a minute; Only sixty seconds in it; Forced upon you, can’t refuse it, Didn’t seek it, didn’t choose it, But it’s up to you to u...

A dear old lady was asked what she used to make her complexion so beautiful and her whole being so bright and attractive. She answered: ...

It takes years to build up trust, but only seconds to destroy it. You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you'd better...

A man whose axe was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, look like a thief, and spoke like a thief. But th...