Conducting Scavenger Hunts

Purpose

The primary goal of a scavenger hunt is to send participants out with a list of things to find, obtain, photograph, videotape, audio record, etc. The hope is that while they are working together as a team, relationships will be developed.

Publicity Opportunity

Make invitations to your church, business, or organization and give them to everyone who participates or …

Divine Selection

Admonished for his lack of familiarity with modern science, the Indian mystic Sundar Singh asked, “What is science?”

“Natural selection, you know, and the survival of the fittest”, he was told.

“Ah”, Sundar Singh replied, “but I am more interested in divine selection, and the survival of the unfit.”…

Sacrifice

Sacrifice yourself for once for God’s will. It will not be in vain. Sacrifice yourself for truth, for justice. Sacrifice yourself for once against all human sense for something that is truly good. Sacrifice yourself for Christ in all things, and seek the kingdom of God. There is great strength in this- Stand for something: then your joy will be …

Bridges to Happiness

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Only the person who never gives up in life, who persists with his wish to find and fulfill the promise of himself, makes this truly self-liberating discovery: those places that he once mistook as being impassible barriers to his happiness
become as bridges to the same, but only if he learns to welcome them as part of his journey.

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He’s Right

scoreboard.jpgFour ministers had a series of theological arguments, and three were always in accord against the fourth.

One day, the odd pastor out, after the usual “3 to 1, majority rules” statement that signified that he had lost again, decided to appeal to a higher authority.

“Oh, Lord!” he cried. “I know in my heart that I am right and …

Power of a Decision

There is something about life that, little by little, makes us forget all that is good. This can happen to anyone…and so we must look for a cure against it. Praise be that such a cure exists: the act of quietly making a decision. A decision stirs the mind from the slumber of monotony. A decision breaks the magic spell …

Is It Right

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?”
Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?”
And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?”
But Conscience asks the question, “Is it right?”
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it …

Every Human Heart

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. Even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained; and even in the best of all hearts, …

Seek Him First

To the same measure that we put ourselves at the disposal of God’s cause,
to the same measure that we put God’s will into practice,
so will we gain confidence in our personal life.
For we are promised, “Seek first the kingdom of God and its righteousness and all these things shall be added to you.”
That is our faith, …