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- LIE
- LIE
Famous American Fibs
- The check is in the mail.
- I'll start my diet tomorrow.
- We service what we sell....
- LIFE
- LIFE
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Richard L. Evans, Bits & Pieces, March 4, 1993, p...
- LIGHT
- LIGHT
Making decisions in the dark can lead to some regrettable consequences. Back in the days before electricity, a tightfisted old farmer was taking his...
- LIMITATIONS
- LIMITATIONS
After physicist Richard Feynman won a Nobel prize for his work, he visited his old high school. While there, he decided to look up his records...
- LINCOLN
- LINCOLN
I don't know who my grandfather was, I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln.
- LISTENING
- LISTENING
Writer Charles Swindoll once found himself with too many commitments in too few days. He got nervous and tense about it. "I was snapping at my w...
- LOGIC
- LOGIC
Here are some tongue-in-cheek food safety "facts" from New York's Miner Institute:
- Neary all sick people have eaten carrots. Ob...
- LONELINESS
- LONELINESS
"They are ungoverned yet unfree," said Walter Lippmann of such morally bereft and helpless souls. One of the most influential and statesmanlike...
- LONGEVITY
- LONGEVITY
In 1972, NASA launched the exploratory space probe Pioneer 10. According to Leon Jaroff in Time, the satellite's primary mission was to rea...
- LORDSHIP OF CHRIST
- LORDSHIP OF CHRIST
(see also COMMITMENT and DISCIPLESHIP)
Peter T. Forsythe was right when he said, "The first duty of every soul is to find not its...
- LOSS
- LOSS
The great composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) lived much of his life in fear of deafness. He was concerned because he felt the sense of hearing...
- LOST
- LOST
Maryann's Law: You can always find what you're not looking for.
Source Unknown.
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- LOSTNESS
- LOSTNESS
A recent novel by Madeleine L'Engle is entitled A Severed Wasp. If you're addressing young people or some other audience with strong st...
- LOT
- LOT
Although Lot is referred to by Peter as "righteous Lot," he chose to live among the wicked in Sodom because he loved money and prominence. He was a do...
- LOVE
- LOVE
Newspaper columnist and minister George Crane tells of a wife who came into his office full of hatred toward her husband. "I do not only want to get ...
- LOVE, example of
- LOVE, example of
On May 2, 1962, a dramatic advertisement appeared in the San Francisco Examiner: "I don't want my husband to die in the gas chamber ...
- LOVE, feigned
- LOVE, feigned
I was attending a junior stock show when a grand-champion lamb, owned by a little girl, was being auctioned. As the bids reached five dollar...
- LOVE FOR GOD
- LOVE FOR GOD
My God, I love Thee; not because
I hope for heaven thereby,
Nor yet because who love Thee not
Are lost...
- LOVE, law of
- LOVE, law of
Dr. Mitchell was impressing upon us that we are not under the Law when we're in Christ, but we're under a new law -- the law of LOV...
- LOVE OF ENEMIES
- LOVE OF ENEMIES
In The Grace of Giving, Stephen Olford tells of a Baptist pastor during the American Revolution, Peter Miller, who lived in Ephrata, Penn...