Another might pass up the opportunity to be king, but Christ sacrificed Himself to become the King of all kings....
Knowing Christ as our caregiver, provider and sustainer is all we really need to know....
A businessman needed millions of dollars to clinch an important deal, so he went to the church to pray for the money. By chance he knelt at the altar next to a man who was praying for $100 to pay an u...
A beautiful golden flower called the aconite blooms in early spring in England. Sometimes the meadows are carpeted with them. There is a legend that these flowers grew in England only where Roman sold...
The bitternut tree does not bear fruit every year. It only bears fruit every three years and sometimes only every five years. The beech tree bears fruit every eight years. The white oak can go ten yea...
Those who speak up for Jesus are often labeled as annoyances. Some of that may be unavoidable. Herb Caen once said, “The problem with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the ...
The Prayer Telescope The brilliant scientist Sir Isaac Newton said that he could take his telescope and look millions and millions of miles into space. Then he added, "But when I lay it aside, go into...
Jared C. Wilson
The creed, attributed to the earliest missionary followers of Jesus, distills the basic outline of what it means to be a Christian into a short summation that belies the depth and richness of what it ...
It is said that when the great Italian artist Raphael was painting one of his frescoes in the Vatican, two church cardinals were watching and criticizing his work. One said that the face of the apostl...
Driving through Austria, a tourist saw a policeman in the village ahead. He slowed down. Then He saw it was not a policeman but a life-size picture of a policeman. Apparently they couldn't afford an a...
Most bells ring nine times at 9:00 p.m., but the tower bell at Oxford's Christ Church college rings 101 times every evening at 9:00 p.m. It is to commemorate the 101 members who founded that academic ...
When we read that Jesus is the Water of Life we think of all the usual things that water does: quenches thirst, cleanses, refreshes, makes life possible. We draw a parallel between those functions and...
When Roman Catholic Bishop Romeo Blanchett was told he had terminal cancer, he said to his radio audience, “A terminal disease is not something that should bring despair….Everybody is t...
Sometimes when a person thinks someone else is behaving stupidly or frivolously that person says, "Get a life!" Air New Zealand picked up on the phrase and chose phone numbers for its Pacifica...
In Darwin, Australia, a 19-year old Australian man was loading wild geese into his boat when a 10-foot crocodile grabbed him and took him into the water....