If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers;If you wish to enrich years, plant trees;If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others. -S. Truett Cathay ...
One percent of the child's time is spent under the influence of the Sunday school: seven percent under the influence of the public school; 92 percent under the influence of the home. -Albert ...
House Church. For pastors, the mere term once conjured up images of angry men and women gathered around a kitchen table, condemning the mistakes and failures of the traditional church they had left f...
Jan Karon is the author of the beloved and hugely successful Mitford book series. The books follow the lives of the denizens of a small North Carolina mountain village called Mitford. One of the ce...
One of the most popular Celtic bands in the world is Clannad. Their music has been featured in movies like Patriot Games and Last of the Mohicans. The lead singer with the distinctive, haunting voi...
In a recent Middleton’s comic strip, Mr. and Mrs. Middleton are taking a walk. Mrs. Middleton says, “There’s no two ways about it. TV is nothing but violence and sleaze.”...
A Montreal priest was fined $150 when city leaders said his church’s electronic billboard, which displayed Bible messages, was a form of advertising. The minister, Charles-Eugene Apesteguy sa...
Recently China announced the opening of what they call the "world’s longest sea bridge." ...
Recently, Beloit College released a list of facts to help people understand the mindset of the incoming college class. Here are a few of their reminders concerning today’s college students......
In her book, Three Kentucky Towns That Never Were, the author, Mariam S. Houchens, names Lystra and Franklinville in Nelson County. They existed only on paper. Elaborate plans showed streets, parks, c...
David Powlison comments, “In Western culture, many theories of anger treat it as an emotional fluid that builds up pressure and must be released. This ‘hydraulic’ theory of anger ...
In the Old Testament we often find the Israelites "murmuring." What a wonderful expression. In the church we often find people murmuring, too. The only thing some people are willing to give is advice....
They have lost the cornerstone of the U. S. Capitol building in Washington, D. C. The building has been enlarged and remodeled and renovated so many times that somewhere the cornerstone has been lost....
Do you ever wonder what you are worth? Recently we read about John Odom, a baseball player for the independent Calgary Vipers, who was traded to the Laredo Broncos for 10 maple baseball bats....
Hans Christian Andersen wrote of a mirror that made every good and pretty thing look bad. Don’t many of us have just such a distorted view of life? Good looks bad; and bad looks good. We must ...
A Lutheran pastor in Stockholm, Sweden is so concerned to produce church growth he’s placed a help-wanted ad in newspapers advertising for church attenders. The minister, Bjoern Frennesson, c...
P. H. Welshimer, a great preacher of a previous generation, used to advise his fellow preachers, "If you have to be a second-rater, then be a first-rate second-rater." That’s not bad advice fo...
During World War II, preacher and theologian Helmut Thielieke, came to his bombed out church in Stuttgart. Because of the damage, he had to gather the church in the choir loft. He began his sermon by ...