God's Junk Mail

The other twenty million finalists might as well give up. One of the gold-sticker-laden sweepstakes entry forms and magazine sales pitches that show up ...

Billionaire for a Day

Jeff Ferrera of Waukegan, Illinois, was reconciling his checkbook and called First National Bank of Chicago to get his current balance.

"Your primary checking ...

A Mixture of Hits and Errors

In 1986 Bob Brenley was playing third base for the San Francisco Giants. In the fourth inning of a game against the Atlanta Braves, Brenley made an error ...

Doing the Wrong Things

We try too hard to do the wrong things. No matter how much effort or ingenuity you put into the wrong mode, you still fail.

Big Mistakes

Some misplaced quotation marks were largely responsible for these interesting items in our church bulletin announcing two new classes and their locations: ...

Marriage Hazards

Newly married to a sailor, my first experience at washing clothes was a total disaster. At muster the following morning, my husband was the only sailor ...

Inevitable Error

Error is the inevitable consequence of living.

Mutual error is the inevitable consequence of living together.

Argument or faultfinding is the defensive ...

Strength in the Midst of Error

Strong people make as many and as ghastly mistakes as weak people. The difference is that strong people admit them, laugh at them, learn from them. That ...

Remember Our Roots

The map of God's activity, then, is not a blank ocean between the apostolic shores and our modern day. So we need to remember--and search for our ...

No Eraser

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.