The man was taking it easy, lying on the grass and looking up at the clouds. He was identifying shapes when he decided to talk to God. ...
How does one approach the final sermons in a church before resignation? After having to deal with this challenge a few times, let me make a few observations. ...
A cartoon in a national magazine recently showed a couple standing before a minister during their wedding. The minister, looking at the bride, said, "The correct response is 'I do' - not 'It's worth a...
Jimmy Webb is the composer of some of the most well-known pop songs of all time, including, "Up, Up, and Away," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Galveston," "MacArthur Park" and "Wichita Lineman." Jim...
It sounds like a made-up story, but it is true. Some years ago a church in Carter County, Tennessee had an attorney draw up a deed for their property....
It sounds like a made-up story, but it is true. Some years ago a church in Carter County, Tennessee had an attorney draw up a deed for their property. He wrote the deed naming The Lord God Almighty as...
A little girl was on the way home from church when she turned to her mother and said, "Mommy, the preacher's sermon this morning confused me." The mother said, "Oh! Why is that?" The girl replied, "We...
Baylor University is a fine institution in Beaumont, Texas. The Christian who gave the money for building that school later lost all his property. Men of the world asked him, "Don't you wish you had t...
Ambrose Bierce once wrote, “An abstainer is a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.” Surely this is the logic of a world that imagines God as a cosmic kil...
"We serve an intensely creative God. We talk abvout the fact that no two snowflakes are alike -- but God has never made two of anything alike. God's vision for you does not include pressing you into s...
Churchgoers sometimes forget why and who they're there to worship....
The biggest gold nugget ever found was uncovered in Australia. It was one and one half meters long, weighed 300 kilograms and yielded 93 kilograms of pure gold. That one lump of gold would be worth on...
A 26-word parade of hope: beginning with God, ending with life, and urging us to do the same. Brief enough to write on a napkin or memorize in a moment, yet solid enough to weather two thousand years ...
"One of the best ways of describing our relationship with God is to think in terms of the human relationship of courtship and marriage. Those of us who are married can remember when we fell in love w...
In a sermon on the Sunday after 9/11, M. Craig Barnes said, "The French Philosopher Paul Ricoeur has written about the creative possibility of limit experiences. A limit experience is an experience th...
The victory over worldliness cannot be won by conforming to a list of rules. The battle is won through the power of the gospel applied to our daily choices....
A scientist approaches God and says to Him: "God, we don't need You anymore. Science has finally figured out a way to create life out of nothing. We can now do what You did in the beginning." "Oh, is ...
1 Corinthians 2:12-13 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. And we speak of these things in w...
Dr. Bill Lawrence
Every time we fall into one of the temptations, we end up short-circuiting our purpose, sinning against God, harming others, and deceiving ourselves into thinking we are doing well....