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POLYGAMY
POLYGAMY Once when Mark Twain was lecturing in Utah, a Mormon acquaintance argued with him on the subject of polygamy. After a long and rather heated deba...
POPULARITY
POPULARITY A friend who lives in a forested area found his home overrun with mice--too many to exterminate with traps. So he bought a few boxes of D-Con a...
POSITIVE
POSITIVE To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. Ambrose Bierce.

POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT
POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT A city in the Netherlands had a problem with litter. The sanitation department tried doubling the littering fine and even increasin...
POSITIVE THINKING
POSITIVE THINKING If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win bu...
POSSESSIONS
POSSESSIONS I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

POSSIBILITIES
POSSIBILITIES Meg. F. Quijano related the following incident that happened upon her return from a meeting of the National Organization for Women. Her five...
POTATO
POTATO It is hard to believe now, but the potato was once a highly unpopular food. When first introduced into England by Sir Walter Raleigh, newspapers pr...
POTENTIAL
POTENTIAL In his book, The Americanization of Edward Bok, Edward Bok, one-time editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, tells a story about his grandfathe...
POWER
POWER In a seminary missions class, Herbert Jackson told how, as a new missionary, he was assigned a car that would not start without a push. After ponder...
POWER EVANGELISM
POWER EVANGELISM In his book Sit, Walk, Stand, Watchman Nee describes a preaching mission to an island off the South China coast. There were seven in the ...
PRACTICE
PRACTICE When Polish pianist Ignace Jan Paderewsky played before Queen Victoria, he won her enthusiastic approval. "Mr. Paderewsky," she exclaimed, "you a...
PRAGMATISM
PRAGMATISM The Little Sisters of the Poor were going from door to door in a French city, soliciting alms for old people. One nun called at the house of a ...
PRAISE
PRAISE The Duke of Wellington, the British military leader who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, was not an easy man to serve under. He was brilliant, demand...
PRAYER
PRAYER The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists i...
PRAYERLESSNESS
PRAYERLESSNESS Eleven leaders of conservative renewal movements, representing eight groups from within six Protestant denominations, pooled common concern...
PRAYERS
PRAYERS At a meeting of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Bobby Richardson, former New York Yankee second baseman, offered a prayer that is a classic ...
PRAYERS, children's
PRAYERS, children's Dear God: Please send a new baby for Mommy. The new baby you sent last week cries too much. Debbie, 7 ------...
PRAYER, answered
PRAYER, answered In his book Sit, Walk, Stand, Watchman Nee describes a preaching mission to an island off the South China coast. There were seven in the ...
PRAYER, unanswered
PRAYER, unanswered In October, 1983, I was painting Van and Juanita Clark's home. They had a small black dog who would go to the back door and bark a...