On Friday April 14, 2000 the stock market took a dramatic fall. Hardest hit were the technology stocks. In that one day Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the world's richest man, lost eleven bi...
A first grade school teacher in Virginia presented each child in her classroom the first half of a well-known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb......
In his great painting The Blue Cloak Peter Bruegel has incorporated at least 78 proverbs, maxims, rhymes and symbols. One shows a woman carrying fire in her right hand and a bucket of water in the lef...
This week we'll learn about how to clear the static on the line when it comes to hearing God speak. ...
In his At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, President Dwight Eisenhower tells how he learned to forgive. When he was ten, he became so angry about something that he beat his fists into an old a...
Jared C. Wilson
“We believe” the creed has us say, and this belief begins where the gospel story and our worship ought to begin, with the one who has no beginning (or end): God himself. ...
Chuck Swindoll tells the story of a young fellow who rushed into a service station and asked the manager if he had a pay phone. The manager nodded, "Sure, over there." The boy pushed in some change, d...
How can we hear from God? And what if the counsel we're getting seems to contradict?...
Think of how many times you have believed something to be true only to find out the information was totally wrong. Vaccinate yourself with some scriptural truths about gossip....
The demise of the book has been predicted for years now – its doom supposedly inevitable after the advent of the digital age. Well, someone forgot to tell the reading public in general, and prea...
You want to shock the world? Start here--demonstrating the guts to do what's right when no one is looking....
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 ...
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....
Each year brings a continuing flow of various study bibles and this one has been no different. Some such Bibles seem merely to be the result of marketing efforts, but others are truly helpful....