You’re pouring your heart out. You preach like a man possessed (in a good way). You wax eloquent. And then it happens; you make eye contact with the one person in the crowd that can truly humble you –...
The oldest surviving Irish manuscript is a fragmentary copy of the Book of Psalms. Before they went into battle, Celtic armies carried it around their troops three times to ensure victory. While we wo...
Harold and Don Reid, two of the legendary Statler Brothers, tell a wonderful story in their book Random Memories. ...
Ben Kingsley starred as the main character in the motion picture Gandhi. He spent months preparing for the role, visiting the various Indian locales Gandhi had frequented. He even learned to spin cott...
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...
Studies have shown that many pastors and church staff are burning out. The current state is taking its toll....
Here's an illustration from the new movie The Last Samurai, courtesy of MovieMinistry.com: The Big Idea: Faithfulness is what you do when all the odds are against you. Scene Setup: After rescuing Lord...
Ben Kingsley starred as the main character in the motion picture Gandhi. He spent months preparing for the role, visiting the various Indian locales Gandhi had frequented. He even learned to spin cott...
In November 1993 Esquire magazine carried an article entitled "How to Live Forever." The article said that if all gerontogenes are deactivated, if cancer and heart disease are conquered, if genes can ...
The world was shocked when popular NBC newsman, David Bloom, died while covering the Iraq war....
For 51 years Bob Edens was blind. He couldn't see a thing. His world was a black hall of sounds and smells. He felt his way through five decades of darkness. And then, he could see. A skilled surgeon ...
When the devil's success rate goes up, the pastor's stock in the eyes of the community goes down. In a Wall Street Journal survey, 1,000 corporate executives were asked to name their most trusted c...
10. "Look! Let's stop that car and ask those folks how we can become Christians." 9. "Don't worry, Billy, those people are Christians - they must have a good reason for driving 90 miles an hour." 8. "...
J. Wilbur Chapman often told of the testimony given by a certain man in one of his meetings: I got off at the Pennsylvania depot as a tramp, and for a year I begged on the streets for a living. One...