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The sermons are the product of over fifteen years spent proclaiming the Word. I spent seven years in vocational ministry as pastor of churches in Kentucky and Arkansas, and [...]
In 1968 if you had asked the question, “Which country will lead the world in watchmaking for the remainder of this century and into the next?” the answer would have been a no-brainer to you— Switzerland. By 1968 Switzerland claimed 65 percent of the watchmaking market worldwide, and they made 80 percent of the profits. [...]
He was known as the White House “hatchet man,” a man feared by even the most powerful personalities in the nation’s capital. The media once even referred to him as a man who was “incapable of humanitarian thought.” From 1969-1973, Chuck Colson acted as President Richard Nixon’s special counsel. In an administration already known for [...]
Sam Turner saw an opportunity and grabbed it. In 1951, Turner was a young man, 29 years old, serving an 8-year prison term near Atlanta, Georgia, for voluntary manslaughter and burglary. One day, while working on a road gang, a security lapse gave him the opportunity to “just walk away”— and that’s exactly what [...]
I met Dr. Clyde Smith for the first time when I walked into his freshman physics class at Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana. As we took our seats, Dr. Smith asked us to take out a sheet of paper, then directed our attention to three questions he had written on the board. The first question [...]
In a recent year, electronics giant Radio Shack popularized the slogan “You’ve got questions … We’ve got answers.”
Radio Shack developed that slogan as part of its attempt to maintain its market share of the $16 billion personal computer industry, which had become overcrowded in recent years by “superstore” chains [...]
Isaiah 60 (NRSV): 1 Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. 2 For darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you, and his glory will appear [...]
“You can’t have it both ways” is a saying that reminds us that, in many life situations, it is necessary to choose. And, there can be unfortunate, ludicrous, or even tragic consequences in store if we refuse to choose.
Particularly within the church, history has witnessed many great absurdities as [...]
Matthew 25: 35 for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to [...]
Larry Walters always wanted to fly. When he graduated high school, he joined the service with the distant hope that somehow he might someday end up piloting a military plane. However, his dreams were cut down when an eye exam he took as a new enlistee revealed that, even [...]
Six-year-old Ian entusiastically agreed to pray when dinner included his favorite dessert. He went through the usual expressions of thanks for the food and highlights of the day. He then added, “And thank you, God, for the nice little boy you gave this family.” His mother questioned, “Nice little [...]
“No man is an island.” Consider the rewards and benefits of friendships …
9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. 10 For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does [...]
King of the Universe … King of Your Life!
In February of 1994, nineteen children were found abandoned and alone in a dwelling on Chicago’s Keystone Avenue. The children had been left in the squalor of their filthy two-bedroom apartment on the city’s west-side. They had been eating out of the same [...]
When we are forced to endure unpleasant experiences, we can be tempted to ask: Will This Last Forever?
Sometimes that experience for you might be a relatively trivial one–for example, having to sit through a play or an opera or some other form of “entertainment” which you personally don’t find [...]
Why are you reluctant to let God have His way in your life? … Is it because you’re afraid of what the result will be .. tomorrow? …
Mark 5:1-20: 1 They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2 And [...]
Joshua 1: 6 Be strong and of good courage; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. 7 Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the [...]
Some Heavenly Blessings God Wants You to Enjoy Right Now!
Most computer users are familiar with the concept of a “beta version” of a piece of software. Before a program is “officially” released in its final version, a company might release a “beta” or “pre-release” version of the software to [...]
Why are you here as the ‘crowning glory’ of God’s creation? Here’s why …
26 Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over [...]
Genesis 32: 22 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had.
24 Jacob was [...]
A minister put an advertisement in the local paper for a well-rounded handyman who could fix things around the Church and Parsonage and help out with the routine chores. The next morning a well-dressed young man came to the door. Assuming that the young man was there [...]