Albert Mohler
Will this generation of gospel ministers finish the race? It will require gospel faithfulness at every turn....
"The philosophy of education in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next." (Abraham Lincoln) ...
Carl Henry wrote in Twilight of a Great Civilization: "We may even now live in the half generation before all hell breaks loose, and if its fury is contained we will be remembered, if we are remembere...
A number of years ago a cartoon showed a young man talking to his father as he sat in his armchair reading the paper. "Dad, what did your generation use for safe sex?" the boy asked. "A wedding rin...
P. H. Welshimer, a great preacher of a previous generation, used to advise his fellow preachers, "If you have to be a second-rater, then be a first-rate second-rater." That’s not bad advice fo...
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...
In a recent column in SBC Life (April 2003), Charles Lowery observed, "Life is like Monopoly. You may be pastoring First Church Boardwalk or you may be pastoring First Church Baltic. It doesn't reall...
Like Father, Like Son Father's do influence their children. Abbie Hobbman was arrested 53 times, lived underground for six years and never ran out of causes. When he died last week, at 52, he was reme...
The Book of Kells is one of the most beautiful and revered illustrated manuscripts of the scriptures. A beautiful book with text by Ben MackworthPraud tells its remarkable story. The copyists displaye...
Writing in Southern Living magazine Jennifer Greer recounted a visit she made to the old family cemetery in Nelson County, Kentucky. She had talked there with her cousin who cared for the cemetery as ...
In a church marketing newsletter just a few years ago, a campaign was suggested to attract people to church during the season of Easter. In this public relations campaign, it was suggested the cross b...
Richard Fairchild tells this story of Leslie Weatherhead, a well-known preacher of a previous generation: “Once, when he was a high school student, he had a very difficult examination, but he had disc...
Dear Ann Landers: The reader signed "Georgia," who lived through the Depression and described how hard it was to be a teenager in the 1930's, said kids today have an easy time of it compared to teens ...
In the 12/18/03 issue of Sightings, Andrew Weaver and Christopher G. Ellison report that, "In 1988, only two states had large-scale casino gambling; now 27 states have it. Thirty-seven states operate ...
We live in exciting days of evangelistic possibilities. Like never before, people are searching for spiritual answers to meaningful, eternal questions. And though many of these answers are misguide...
John Killinger tells the story of a strange custom among the Jivaro tribe in Ecuador. Every night, when tribe members tuck their children into bed, they whisper in their ears the names of people th...
A Canadian television station put together an eye catching promotion in an effort to attract more viewers. They showed several news clips with the wrong dialogue. Then a man said, "We don't make the n...