[Propertalk] Gospel tips - John 13:31-35 - Part 1

[Joe Parrish]

...this is one of those times when the answer may not be just give them whatever it is they think they want. Any alcoholic will tell you that just giving a desperate person what they want is not always the loving thing to do. 

http://www.laughingbird.net/ComingWeeks.html
(in Sermons, Post 4.)

Nathan Nettleton, 2007
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A story is told about a teacher who was helping one of her kindergarten
students put his boots on. 

   He asked for help and she could see why. With her pulling and him
   pushing, the boots still didn't want to go on.  When the second boot
   was on, she had worked up a sweat.  She almost whimpered when the
   little boy said, "Teacher, they're on the  wrong feet."  She looked
   and sure enough, they were. 

   It wasn't any  easier pulling the boots off then it was putting them
   on.  She managed to keep her cool as together they worked to get the
   boots back on - this time on the right feet.  He then announced,
   "These aren't my boots."  She bit her tongue rather than get right
   in his face and scream, "Why didn't you say so?" like she wanted to. 

   Once again she struggled to help him pull the ill-fitting boots off. 
   He then said,"They're my brother's boots.  My Mom made me wear
   them." 

   She didn't know  if she should laugh or cry. She mustered up the
   grace to wrestle the boots on his feet again.  She said, "Now, where
   are your mittens?"  He  said, "I  stuffed them in the toes of my
   boots..."

http://www.rockies.net/~spirit/sermons/c-ea05su.php

Richard J. Fairchild 
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...a late night comedian quips, "It's a good thing love hurts, otherwise all the country songs would have to be about root canals."

http://www.lectionarysermons.com/giftlove.html

John Jewell 
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In a lovely little book called Chicken Soup for the Soul, there's a story about a man who came out right after Christmas from his office and when he got out to his car he found a little boy from a nearby project looking with great admiration at this new vehicle. The little boy said, "Does this car belong to you?"
And the man said, "Yes, in fact my brother gave it to me for Christmas. I've just gotten it." With that the little boy's eyes widened.

He said, "You mean to say that somebody gave it to you? And you didn't have to pay anything for it? That it came without any strings attached?"

And the man said, "That's right. My brother gave it to me as a gift."

With that the little boy let out a long sigh and said, "Boy, I would really like..."

And the man fully expected the boy to say, "I would like to have a brother like that, who would give me such a beautiful car," but instead the man was amazed when the little boy said, "Wow! I would like to be that kind of brother. I wish I could give that kind of car to my little brother."

http://www.csec.org/csec/sermon/claypool_3919.htm

John Claypool, 1996 
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