In the book, The Pursuit of God, A.W. Tozer gives this interesting illustration: "Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other?...
Joe McKeever
With God's help, you can leave behind the painful memories of difficult church experience....
Joe McKeever
Here are five visible changes in sermons and sermon delivery we have observed over the past two decades....
President Calvin Coolidge invited some people from his hometown to dinner at the White House. When the time came for serving coffee, the president poured his coffee into a saucer. As soon as t...
This ordeal left him blind in one eye so he could not take part in contact sports. Miraculously he suffered no brain damage and was fearfully aware that his abductor was still at large. He struggled w...
What do you do when experience teaches that you cannot win for losing?...
Charley, a new retiree-greeter at Wal-Mart, just couldn't seem to get to work on time....
Consider some of these pearls of wisdom that have been passed on to us by way of the Internet. 1. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film. 2. He who laughs last, thinks slowest. 3...
A drive-in espresso place might be innovative enough, but Al Holm has added a new dimension to his drive-in coffee shop. You see, Al is a minister and he also serves up drive through weddings. His ...
John Barry
Pointers from John Piper on approaching the Bible...
Dr. Arno Penzias is one of the two physicists who discovered the existence of cosmic background radiation. In his May 9 Breakpoint commentary, Chuck Colson points out that Penzias now says, "The creat...
Mike Pohlman
Gordon Moyes, pastor of Wesley Mission in Sydney, Australia, said in a recent sermon: "Taking life, even to eat, is never a trivial thing. God tells Moses: "For the life of a creature is in the blood...
Joe McKeever
Listen as the congregation files out of the sanctuary on Sunday, and you'll hear the common refrain: "I didn't get anything out of ___ [fill-in-the-blank] ___."...
In her book It Only Hurts When I Laugh, Ethel Barrett tells about a king of Sparta in ancient Greece who boasted to a visiting monarch about the mighty walls of Sparta. But the guest didn't see any wa...
On her golden wedding anniversary, a grandmother revealed the secret of her long and happy marriage. "On my wedding day, I decided to choose ten of my husband's faults which, for the sake of our marri...
What can encouragement and affirmation do? If you want to see someone's work or attitude improve, read more here....
Rick Warren recently wrote, "God's purpose for the church is also his purpose for every Christian. As individual followers of Christ we are to use our lives in worship, ministry, evangelism, disciples...