In the Detroit Free Press, Nancy A. Youssef reports that in response to a wave of violent crime - 104 homicides compared to 68 at the same time last year - the Detroit Police department took an unusua...
General Oglethorpe once said to John Wesley, "I never forgive and I never forget." To which Wesley responded, "Then Sir, I hope you never sin." Very apt, for when we reflect on how much God has forgiv...
The Christian's "Taste Berry" It is said that in Africa there is a fruit called the "taste berry," because it changes a person's tastes so that everything eaten tastes sweet and pleasant. Sour fruit, ...
Unfortunately Edwin Booth is known primarily as the brother of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. Booth was a celebrated Shakespearean actor. ...
A.W. Tozer describes the impact of the Fall on worship in a poetic and poignant way: "Man was made to worship God. God gave to man a harp and said, 'Here above all the creatures that I have made and c...
In an interview which appeared in Pastors.com, Campus Crusade founder Bill Bright said, "My life's message is be a slave of Jesus. And all that involves. Love your master, trust your master and obey y...
Who Can Fix Us? In the early days of the automobile a man's Model-T Ford stalled in the middle of the road. He couldn't get it started no matter how hard he cranked nor how much he tried to advance th...
Joe McKeever tells about his son Neil, who was on an outing with his three children. The day before, he had suggested they pray for good weather. On their way to the park, he asked 10-year-old Grant i...
It is reported that Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can see what God thinks of money when you see the people He gives it to.” ...
C.H. Spurgeon once said, "Prayer pulls the rope down below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly; others give only an occasional je...
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,...
A brilliant young concert pianist was performing for the first time in public. The audience sat enthralled as beautiful music flowed from his disciplined fingers. The people could hardly take their ey...
As Pastor John Aker boarded a DC-10 at Newark Airport, the plane was nearly empty. The computer, however, had assigned him a seat next to a man named Richard. Once airborne, the two began talking; Ric...
J. Wilbur Chapman often told of the testimony given by a certain man in one of his meetings: I got off at the Pennsylvania depot as a tramp, and for a year I begged on the streets for a living. One...
In Remember All the Way, William C. Townsend related the story of an evangelist who was facing discouragement and criticism. One day he said to a colleague: "Don Guillermo, I'm going to quit." Guill...
A grandmother was showing her grandchildren one of those pictures of a Pilgrim family going to church on Thanksgiving Day. Thinking she might make a point, she said, “The Pilgrim children really enjoy...
Recently Bill Keane's comic strip, The Family Circus, showed a little girl kneeling on her bed and telling her Mother, "I couldn't remember The Lord's Prayer so I said the Pledge of Allegiance."...
There is a wonderful story making the rounds about a man who went to the barbershop. While he was there he got into a theological discussion with his barber. The barber said, "I don't believe that ...