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Without peace you cannot grow. A shepherd may find good pasture for his flock, but if his sheep are hunted about by wild dogs so that they cannot rest, they will become mere skin and bone. The Lord’s lambs cannot grow if they are worried and harried; they must enjoy the rest with which the Lord makes…

Many are a great deal worried by curiosity. A servant was passing through a street with a dish that was curiously covered. There met him a fellow who said, “I am most anxious to know what your lord has put in that dish, for he has so carefully covered it.” But the servant said, “Therefore you should…

The birds go flying through the orchard, and they do not say a word to one another till they come to a cherry tree where the cherries are very sweet and ripe. Then they all fall to at once and begin to peck away with all their might. So nobody says much of an ordinary Christian who is doing little for…

It is wonderful what a difference love makes in the person who is possessed with it. A poor timid hen that will fly away from every passerby loves its offspring. When it has its chicks about it, it will fight like a very griffin for its young. And when the love of Christ comes into a timid believer,…

A certain monk went to a monastery, determined to give himself up entirely to contemplation and meditation. When he reached the place he saw all the monks at work, tilling the ground, plowing, or trimming the vines round the monastery. He very solemnly observed as he entered, “Do not work for the food…

Queen Elizabeth told a notable merchant in the City of London to go to the Continent on royal business. “Please your majesty,” said he, “who will attend to my business while I am away?” The queen replied, “If you will go abroad and see to my business, I will see to your business.” I will be bound to…

A fair garden is before us. We look over the wall, and are even allowed to stand at the door while one hands out to us baskets of golden apples. This is very delightful. Who would not be glad to come so near as this to the garden of heavenly delights? Yet it is something more to be shown the door, to…

I remember one who spoke on the missionary question one day saying, “The great question is not, ‘Will not the heathen be saved if we do not send them the gospel?’ but ‘are we saved ourselves if we do not send them the gospel?’ ” And so it is with regard to Christian gifts. It is not so much a question…

There is a father, and he thinks that to go to his work—such common work as his—cannot be especially pleasing in God’s sight. He means to serve God, and so he stops at home. He is upstairs in prayer when the factory bell is ringing and he ought to be there. He hears that there is a conference in the…

A 2017 New York Post article had the following headline: “Americans check their phones 80 times a day.” https://nypost.com/2017/11/08/americans-check-their-phones-80-times-a-day-study/ A 2021 PR Newswire headline offered updated information, “Americans Check Their Phones 96 Times a Day.” https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/americans-check-their-phones-96-times-a-day-300962643.html…

Walker Smallword dreamed of pitching in the major leagues, but bone cancer robbed him of those career aspirations. Instead of scrapbooking impressive baseball stats, his family logged these numbers, “six surgeries, six chemotherapy cycles, 24 treatments and 18 hospital stays.” The 17-year-old athlete…

Former Pastor Steven Dyer owns a stable business in Oklahoma and enjoys working with horses. He shares his experience through YouTube and has posted videos about the challenges of working with wild mustangs and teaching ponies not to be afraid. Dyer named the video series,” Sermon By Horse,” and said…

In Spain, an archives director drew a paycheck for a decade without doing any work. He only was at work to clock in and clock out, and would go home or somewhere else in between. According to NPR, “He told Spanish TV he did get a lot done, but investigators found no evidence of that. And he's now been…

Authorities in New Zealand say Nintendo’s Pokeman GO smartphone game helped capture a criminal. Several young people were out hunting the virtual characters when they heard a car alarm and saw a masked man run past them. They grabbed the man and held him until police arrived, who arrested a twenty-eight-year-old…

Gatewood Galbraith was a perennial candidate for governor of Kentucky and even though he died in 2012, Galbraith’s name may be back on the ballot this year. Another man, Terrill Newman, has legally changed his name to Gatewood Galbraith and plans to run for Kentucky Governor as an independent. Newman…

One day when he was 13, Michael Irvin, NFL Hall of Fame wide receiver, decided to ditch school. As punishment, his father brought him to work with him the next day. It was a 14-hour workday, 110-degree heat, with only 15-minute lunch break to eat sardines and crackers. By the end of the day, “Irvin’s…

Rock star Jon Bon Jovi has traveled the world and eaten in the world’s finest restaurants. Now, he is opening a restaurant of his own, The Soul Kitchen, established in a former auto body shop near his hometown in central New Jersey. Several years ago, Bon Jovi started a foundation to help those in need…

Mervyn Salmon, a choir member at St Cuthbert’s Church in Wells, Somerset, may hold the record for longest continuous service. When he joined the choir, 70 years ago, “King George VI was on the throne, Winston Churchill was prime minister, and Adolf Hitler stood towering over Europe.” Today, at age 78,…

According to a lament by a letter writer in USA Today, not only is employment tough to find during this recession, it is even hard to find a place to volunteer. --USA Today August 16, 2010, p.8a Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell Many Baby Boomers have reached the age where they are no…

PATIENCE Don’t ask China’s sixty-six year old Lian Jiansheng, for compassion. Lian was an observer at a possible suicide jumper event in the city of Guangzhou in southern China. Chen Fuchao had been atop the Haizhu Bridge, threatening to jump for 5 hours. Officials held up traffic for nearly five hours…

My wife asked me this morning, "Whacha doin' today?" I said, "Nothing." She said, "That's what you did yesterday." I said, "I wasn't finished." Mikey's Funnies, 3-17-09

Our primary goal in the Christian life is to glorify God by fulfilling His purpose for our lives. As a hundred thousand fans watched, Richard Petty ended his 45 race losing streak and picked up stockcar racing's biggest purse—$73,500. It all happened at the Daytona 500. Petty's win, however, was a complete…

F.B. Meyer They look him and cast him into a pit - Genesis 37:24 It is impossible to read this inimitable story without detecting in the water-mark of the paper on which it is written the name Jesus. Indeed, we lose much of the beauty and force of these early Scriptures if we fail to observe the references…

WORK Though the German people were regarded as industrious workers in the years following World War II, German leaders now fear their countrymen’s work habits threaten the country’s economic well-being. Ludwig George Braun, president of the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce says German workers…

DOING RIGHT Carol Birmingham said she almost had a heart attack when she realized that her visit to a fast food outlet had cost her $8700. The 62 year-old British tourist did not notice until the following morning that she had left her cash-stuffed purse on the counter of the Orlando area restaurant…