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- PERMANENCE
- PERMANENCE
Life is a matter of building. Each of us has the opportunity to build something -- a secure family, a good reputation, a career, a relationship...
- PERSECUTION
- PERSECUTION
Archaeologists digging in the remains of a school for imperial pages in Rome found a picture dating from the third century. It shows a boy sta...
- PERSEVERANCE
- PERSEVERANCE
(see also FAITHFULNESS, ENDURANCE, DEDICATION)
Young William Wilberforce was discouraged one night in the early 1790s after another def...
- PERSISTENCE
- PERSISTENCE
(see also QUITTING)
Persistence paid off for American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the planet Pluto. After astronomers calc...
- PERSPECTIVE
- PERSPECTIVE
An airline pilot flying over the southeastern U.S. called the local tower and said, "We are passing over at 35,000--give us a time check." The...
- PERSUASION
- PERSUASION
In Illustrations from Literature, Amy L. Person pointed out that in our eagerness to get people to do what we want, we sometimes forget the adm...
- PESSIMISM
- PESSIMISM
Chisholm effect-basic laws of frustration, mishap, and delay
1st law of human interaction. If anything can go wrong, it will.
- PETER
- PETER
Among the apostles, the one absolutely stunning success was Judas, and the one thoroughly groveling failure was Peter. Judas was a success in the wa...
- PETS
- PETS
You own a dog; you feed a cat.
Jim Fiebig.
- PHARISEE
- PHARISEE
The trouble oftentimes with religious people is that they try to be more spiritual than God himself.
Frederick Buechner.
- PHILOSOPHY
- PHILOSOPHY
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Cicero.
- PICNIC
- PICNIC
Maybe the kettle takes longer to boil, and the ground isn't as soft as a chair. Maybe the butter runs soft in the sun, and the cake seems to w...
- PLANNING
- PLANNING
British sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein was once visited in his studio by the eminent author and fellow Briton, George Bernard Shaw. The visitor notic...
- PLEASING GOD
- PLEASING GOD
How do we Please God?
1. By exalting Jesus Christ, His Son (Matt 3:17; Col 1:15-19)
2. By proclaiming the message o...
- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
The Pledge of Allegiance is not a verse composed by the Founding Fathers of our republic. It was written especially for children in t...
- PLURALISM
- PLURALISM
An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or Practical reas...
- POISON
- POISON
A minimum lethal dose of botulism bacillus is .00003 micrograms per kilogram of body weight. That is almost the equivalent of a flea derailing a 10...
- POLITICIAN
- POLITICIAN
A fellow heard about an operation which would enable him to get a new brain. He went to the hospital where the surgery had been perfected and a...
- POLITICS
- POLITICS
An elderly gentleman was sitting on a park bench, basking in the sun, when another elderly fellow sat down. They looked at each other for a momen...
- POLYCARP
- POLYCARP
Polycarp was a disciple of the Apostle John and an early church leader whose life ended when he refused to betray his Lord. Asked one last time t...