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Illustration: Commitment

Max Hickerson tells a wonderful story about guitar phenomenon Les Paul. Paul was known as the "Architect of Rock and Roll" and for inventing the solid body electric guitar. In 1948, Paul's passion for...

Devout Fathers

The other day I was in Paul Harvey's studio in Chicago as he was making his broadcast. Paul said, "It's time for me to go on the air; but why don't you join me in the studio? It's live, you know." I w...

Homosexuality

In his weblog from April 21, 2004, R. Albert Mohler points out, "As Romans 1 makes absolutely clear, homosexuality is fundamentally an act of unbelief. As Paul writes, the wrath of God is revealed ag...

Hatred

Christopher Paul was born and raised in Ohio. Why does an American citizen from the heartland of America hate America? ...

MacArthur: The Emergent Church is a Form of Paganism

Paul Edwards interviews pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church John MacArthur about the emerging church movement in America....

Church

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...

Family Matters

One of the richest men of his time, J. Paul Getty, owned an estate that exceeded $4 billion in net worth. This is what he wrote in his autobiography as quoted in the Los Angeles Times, January 9, 1981...

Redeemed

Recently Kentucky Ancestors carried a remarkable story written by Edwin Burrows Smith. It concerns a man and wife who, in the first half of the 19th century, bought the freedom of 107 slaves! Paul and...

Communion

In his famous autobiography, Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton wrote of the death of Christ and used three little prases: He was sacrificed for us, by us and with us. We understand that it was for ...

Illustration: Sacrifice

Recently, The Cincinnati Enquirer told the story of a man who donated 80 gallons of blood. He is the record holder for the local blood bank. According to the report, if 60 people gave every drop of bl...

The Bible

Paul explicitly states that the sword of the Spirit is Scripture, the word of God. The Scottish pastor and writer Thomas Cuthrie said, "The Bible is an armory of heavenly weapons,...

Now Is The Day Of Salvation

Evangelist Paul Rader has often urged a banker in New York State to receive Christ, but the man would not make the decision. One day the preacher sensed that God wanted him to go immediately and speak...

Preaching

Paul Boller recalls an anecdote in the life of Lincoln. When Abe was a lawyer, he was handling a court case in the courtroom of Judge David Davis. Davis held up an unusually long bill that had been dr...

Hypocrisy

Sometimes what's on the outside doesn't always coincide with what is on the inside. During Mikhail Gorbachev's historic pre-Christmas meeting with Pope John Paul II, people were amazed to hear...

Exhortations To Choose

Christian psychiatrists Drs. Frank B. Minirth and Paul D. Meier insist that any patient of theirs who is a Christian must be honest and use language that expresses the reality of the situation. In ...

Cold Winter

The temperature had taken an overnight plunge, and Minnesota reaffirmed its reputation as one of the nation's coldest states. Despite a wind-chill of minus 40, we steelworkers erecting a TV tower in a...

One Road

A strange event occurred on September 17, 1997 in Bologna, Italy. Bob Dylan sang and played for Pope John Paul II. The occasion was a religions congress for young people....

Worship

President Theodore Roosevelt was known to go to church and sing the hymns louder than anyone else. This led to a story that made the rounds during his administrations. Recorded by Paul Boller Jr., ...