Evangelist J. Edwin Orr said that “the first word of the gospel” is repentance. It’s a turning away from sin and toward the Lord. The prophet Zechariah cried out to the people of Israel to repent and return to the Lord: “Turn now from your evil ways and your evil…
Whenever children visit relatives, they often hear this kind of greeting: “My, haven’t you grown!” This embarrasses them, but inside they’re glad they’ve outgrown babyhood. Not that babyhood is bad. How else can life begin? But it is sad when babies remain babies.
Sometimes mature Christians, eager to keep new converts…
About this time every year, I re-read Dot Jackson’s 1981 Thanksgiving column from the Charlotte Observer. After raising the question of what ever happened to the old-time concept of “enough,” she wrote: “Enough was a roof that didn’t leak. Plenty of chairs on the porch, and at the table. .…
Are we ever like a child who at the end of a day kneels by his bed and says, “Thank You, God, for not letting Mom find the chocolate wrappers in my pocket. I’m glad I was able to have all the candy I could eat at Billy’s today. Oh,…
What a story! Three young men who refused to treat their king as a god ended up walking around in a furnace (Dan. 3:21-25). The furnace was so hot that the committee in charge of incineration died from the heat (v.22), but these three young champions hardly broke a sweat.
Many…
Travel to the moon is no longer a fantasy. Human beings have walked on its surface. But years ago when the Hayden Planetarium in New York advertised (merely in jest) that it would take reservations for that lunar trip of 240,000 miles, 18,000 people applied within a few days.
A psychologist…
When I was 15 years old, I spent as much time as I could in the library reading articles and books about social justice. I was troubled by the fact that thousands of men who were willing to work hard could not find a job. I was trying to find…
The German poet Goethe told a fable about a poor fisherman’s crude hut. When a lighted silver lamp was placed inside, the entire cabin was transformed into silver—the flooring, the logs that formed the walls, the roof, even the furniture.
This is a beautiful picture of what happens in a home…
A study by researchers at three West Coast universities says that couples who stay together longer grow happier. The study, reported in Newsday magazine, does not say that time itself turns unhappy marriages into happy ones, but it does support the theory that marriages tend to improve with time. According…
According to syndicated columnist L. M. Boyd, an out-of-work and penniless man was strolling along a San Francisco beach one day in 1949. The man, Jack Wurm, found a bottle with a note inside that read, “To avoid confusion, I leave my entire estate to the lucky person who finds…
Examine the importance not only of knowing, loving, and trusting God, but also the importance of receiving His love in the book The God Who Loves: The Promise and Privilege of Knowing the Father by Mart and Kurt De Haan. Be…
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