A minister's wife and worship leader used to lead the congregation in that old song, "Count Your Blessings." When the congregation got to the part where it would sing, "Count your blessings, name them...
Recently in Bill Keane's Family Circus comic strip the little boy says, "Ah-Choo!" and his mother says, "God bless you!" He says it again and again she says, "God bless you." He does it again and agai...
Let Go As children bring their broken toys With tears for us to mend, I brought my broken dreams to God, Because He was my friend. But then, instead of leaving Him In peace, to work alone, I hung arou...
Fortune Found The sign on the window read: "BOY WANTED". Young John Simmons, though he was lazy, saw his opportunity and applied. He was quickly hired by elderly Mr. Peters. The pace was leisurely so ...
I Surrender, Some There Shall Be Sprinkles of Blessings Fill My Spoon, Lord Oh, How I Like Jesus He's Quite a Bit to Me I Love to Talk About Telling the Story Take My Life and Let Me Be It Is...
Sometimes children answer their own questions, then they realize even deeper truths and blessings that are best left unquestioned....
Charles Dickens once visited America and gave some lectures across the country. He told one audience that we here in this country are a bit mixed up. He said we should not have one Thanksgiving Day, b...
God is sovereign over all the details of our lives, as well as larger matters. He rules over everything at all times....
That is the title of a novel set in India by Araundhati Roy. Even if one has not read the book, the title is intriguing. It sounds like the title for a sermon. We often speak of the great things God h...
Among the paintings at a Vermeer exhibit in London was one by Van Ostade that belongs to Queen Elizabeth II. It's a painting of the interior of a peasant's cottage. Imagine! The Queen in the splendor ...
A story is told of Abraham Lincoln. One day the President summoned to the White House a surgeon in the Army of the Cumberland from the state of Ohio. The major assumed that he was to be commended for ...
King David was an enormous benefactor for the first temple, always remembering his wealth came from the hand of God, to whom it should be returned....
People who live their lives without God are found to be less joyful than those who are churched and abiding in Him....
The Praying Hypocrite I knelt to pray when day was done, And prayed, "Lord, bless everyone; Lift from each heart the pain, And let the sick be well again." And then I woke again one day, And careles...
Just around the time of the inauguration of President Obama, the daughters of outgoing President Bush wrote an open letter to the Obama daughters. ...
Meredith Willson was the famous author-composer whose most famous composition was the Broadway show The Music Man. He had grown up in the church in his boyhood home of Mason City, Iowa, but had not fo...
In a recent Parade Magazine article, Mitch Albom told the fascinating story of William Kamkwamba, a young man from Malawi. When William was 14, he had a vision. He wanted to make a windmill that would...