Posts Tagged ‘newspaper’

14
Jul

JUST CALL

   Posted by: pastordiehl    in Uncategorized

A woman named Nancy put this ad in her local newspaper: “If you are lonely or have a problem, call me. I am in a wheelchair and seldom get out. We can share our problems with each other. Just call. I’d love to talk.” The response to that ad has been tremendous – 30 calls or more every week.

What motivated this woman to reach out from her wheelchair to help others in need? Nancy explained that before her paralysis she had been perfectly healthy but in deep despair. She tried to commit suicide by jumping from her apartment window, but instead she became paralyzed from the waist down.

In the hospital, utterly frustrated, she sensed Jesus saying to her, “Nancy, you’ve had a healthy body but a crippled soul. From now on you will have a crippled body but a healthy soul.” As a result of that experience, she surrendered her life to Christ. When she was finally allowed to go home, she prayed for a way to share God’s grace with others, and the idea of the newspaper ad occurred to her.

Is there a way God could be using bad stuff in your life to lead you down the path He has set for you? Ask Him.

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6
Jul

CLASSIFIED AD

   Posted by: pastordiehl    in Uncategorized

Back in 1978, Paul Harvey reported the following true story from Pretoria, South Africa:

A newspaper tried to correct a classified ad. Because the ad, as it was first printed, said, quote: The Rev. A. J. Jones has color TV set for sale. Telephone 555-1313 after 7 P.M. and ask for Mrs. Donnelley who lives with him, cheap.

So…the next day the Pretoria paper printed a correction, quote: We regret any embarrassment caused to Rev. Jones by a typographical error in yesterday’s editions. It should have read, ‘The Rev. A. J. Jones has color TV set for sale, cheap. Telephone 555-1313 and ask for Mrs. Donnelly who lives with him after 7 P.M.’

Then the next day…the paper said: The Rev. A. J. Jones informs us he has received several annoying telephone calls because of an incorrect advertisement in yesterday’s paper. It should have read, ‘The Rev. A. J. Jones has color TV set for sale. Cheap. Telephone after 7 P.M. 555-1313 and ask for Mrs. Donnelley who loves with him.’

ONE DAY LATER…: Please take notice that I, the Rev. Jones, have no TV set for sale. I have smashed it. I have not been carrying on with Mrs. Donnelley. She was until yesterday my housekeeper.

Yesterday one more ad: WANTED a housekeeper. Telephone the Rev. A. J. Jones 555-1313. Usual housekeeping duties, good pay, love in.

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