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Taking No Chances

Some people in Japan find value in many religions and do not adhere strictly to one. So people will wear a cross as jewelry, have a Shinto wedding and a Buddhist funeral. It appears that they are taki...

Lord's Supper

The Trojan War was over, and Ulysses was on his way home about to leave the enchanted island where Calypso lived. She came down to the beach where the ships were putting out to sea and said, "Say good...

Death of Christ

When silent film star Rudolf Valentino died, nine thousand people passed by his casket every hour and the viewing lasted for three days! The Lord Jesus knew no such homage. Those who passed by His cro...

Don't Go The Wrong Direction

Craig was on his seventh grade basketball team. His team was playing a cross-town rival, and the first half of the game had been hard-fought, with plenty of tension on both sides. When the second half...

Humility

During World War II, Winston Churchill was awarding the Victoria Cross to an Air Force sergeant who had climbed out onto the wing of his bomber with only a rope attached to his waist - while it was 13...

Experiencing the Passion and Power of Easter

Read reformer Martin Luther's compelling meditation on the question of who really killed Christ....

Easter

Don Aycock tells the story of Menelik II, who was the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1889 until 1913: "News of a successful new means of dispatching criminals reached him. The news was about a device known ...

Illustration: Witness in an Unlikely Place

Dare to hope in Jesus the Christ as one widow of a Soviet ruler......

Illustration: Easter

Don Aycock tells the story of Menelik II, who was the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1889 until 1913: “News of a successful new means of dispatching criminals reached him. The news was about a device known ...

Illustration: Easter

Do you believe the evidence, or do you trust more in legends?...

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 ...

Anxiety Surrounding The Crucifixion

Each person in that crowd surrounding Jesus' cross had his or her own reason for being there. She wanted to be there because she felt it was a significant event and she wanted to be able to share with...

Examples Of Faith

Faithful Unto Death One of the more heroic stories to come out of the Korean War involved a young sergeant by the name of Gardolibov. He had been engaged in the severe fighting on Heartbreak Hill. Whe...

Christmas, Gifts

An African boy listened carefully as his teacher explained why Christians give presents to each other on Christmas day. “The gift is an expression of our joy over the birth of Jesus and our friendship...

Sixth Sunday of Lent: The Jesus Attitude

March 24, 2013—Philippians 2:5-11...

To Illustrate: Atonement

Recently China announced the opening of what they call the "world’s longest sea bridge." ...

Lord's Supper

The Trojan War was over, and Ulysses was on his way home about to leave the enchanted island where Calypso lived....

Illustration: Redemption

During the American Civil War, Northern men could pay a substitute to serve in the army in their place. ...

Hymns

The story is told that a young boy complained to his father that most of the church hymns were boring - old-fashioned, with tiresome tunes and words that meant little to his generation. His father cha...