It has been said that “It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action”. This captures the same thought that James expressed when he said: “Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only”. Paul underlines this same concept when he declared, “For not t…
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“Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad” (Acts 26:24). With a loud voice Festus cried out these words as Paul was making his defence before King Agrippa.
Although Paul was not mad, as he patiently explained to Festus, nevertheless it is possible to become �…
The importance and value of right thinking is today more than ever pressed upon people’s attention. Books, newspaper articles, and advertisements all show that there is a great interest in the working of the human mind and the rules of behaviour. Know your own mind, we are constantly told;…
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When is a parasite not a parasite? When it is dead. A parasite is dependent upon someone else while it lives. This is true of plants and animals. It is also true of human beings. People detest the thought of being parasites and yet no-one is truly independent. In the fullest sense, we are al…
The mountains behind our home are inhabited by rattlesnakes. Every year many people hiking in the foothills are bitten. Most of the bites are on the hands, rather than the legs and feet. Why would that be? Rattlesnakes cannot bite hands unless the hand gets close to their fangs. Even in the Garden o…
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Dr Albert Schweitzer said, “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate”. It’s a funny thing about kindness. The more it’s used, the more there is – because kindness is so contagious.
If we …
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There is a story that Albert Einstein was once asked by some scientists if they could analyse his brain after his death. They wondered what the brain of a genius would be like. Einstein agreed but he did so only if they promised that he be allowed to write a letter which would be read after their re…
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There is a story about a businessman who rode the subway into downtown New York every day. He took the escalator up to the street and walked to the corner where he bought a newspaper from a little boy yelling, “Paper! Paper!” at the top of his lungs. The man smiled, handed the boy a quarter for …
The human eye is a wonderful thing. Blind people think a lot more about eyes and sight than those with normal vision because it is common to take for granted the many blessings we enjoy and only think about the things we want and do not have.
Although most of us are blessed with vision of some de…
Many people treat their religion like a spare tyre: they never use it except in an emergency. This is tragic because God refuses to be placed in our trunk and only pulled out when we have a problem or face danger.
During the Second World War there was a common saying that “there were no athei…
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