Why did only one cleansed leper return to thank Jesus? The following are nine suggested reasons why the nine did not return. One waited to see if the cure was real. One waited to see if it would last...
Many born-again Christians cannot recall just when they were saved. Perhaps they grew up in a Christian home and didn't have a dramatic conversion. Yet they love and trust Christ. Some are every sensi...
Leo Cummins once wrote up a list of "Murphy's Laws" for ministers. They include the following: 1) The amount of flack received on any one subject is inversely proportionate to that subject's real valu...
You want to shock the world? Start here--demonstrating the guts to do what's right when no one is looking....
1. You believe you're supposed to take a covered dish to heaven when you die. 2. You have never sung the third verse of any hymn......
In the early 1970's Gough Whitland was the prime minister of Australia. He did not believe in God. He said, "If there is a God and if I ever meet him you can be assured of one thing. I will treat him ...
The little Ball City Baptist Church near the tiny town of Luck, North Carolina, has been closed for years. Young people moved way from the community. The older members died out one by one. But if you ...
How can we hear from God? And what if the counsel we're getting seems to contradict?...
Some find it impossible to believe in the resurrection of Jesus. Christians find it impossible not to believe in the resurrection of Jesus. If the world's best Man did not survive death, if the world'...
General Eisenhower once rebuked one of his Generals for referring to a soldier as "just a Private." He reminded him that the Army could function better without its Generals, than it could without its ...
In one of Bishop Fulton Sheen’s books, he made an interesting observation about Christianity. He said, “In other religions, one must be purified before he can knock at the door. In Christianity, one k...
A teacher was trying to teach a group of college students how to deal with some "story problems" when she said, "If you had $23 in one pocket and $56 in the other pocket, what would you have?" One stu...
In a book by Paul Boller, the author tells a story about Woodrow Wilson. One of his cabinet members praised him for his short speeches. He then asked Wilson how long it took him to write a speech. ...
Life adds up to nothing—zed, zero, zilch—if we have not love....
Gary Thomas, in his book Sacred Marriage, writes: “One of the reasons the trees of the western slope of the Cascades survive so long is quite simple: The Washington forests are so wet that li...
Slow Down to Catch Up An interesting thing about flight in outer space is that you must "slow down in order to catch up." If two satellites, or spacecraft desire to rendezvous, the one that is making ...