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...
"Learn the power of quoting Scripture. It's to our souls what a sword is to a soldier.”...
In Experience God in Worship George Barna observes the contemporary Christian's view of worship: "Most adults will contend that a Christian has a responsibility to worship God. However, when asked to ...
In the choir stalls of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna you can see carved the letters A E I O U. Indeed you can see them in many places in the Austrian Capital. They stand for a Latin phrase which m...
The little Ball City Baptist Church near the tiny town of Luck, North Carolina, has been closed for years. Young people moved way from the community. The older members died out one by one. But if you ...
At church camp when I was a teenager, an ugly rumor about two of our counselors quickly became the talk of the camp. The next day, at morning prayer, the minister read the story of the adulterous woma...
Philip Pillsbury had an international reputation as a connoisseur of fine foods. But to his employees, he was one of the troops. He bore the unmistakable mark of a journeyman grain miller - the tips o...
"The grave is the end. This brief life is all that we have." There are a lot of people who believe that today. Let me put it in the eloquent words of Bertrand Russell, one of the spokesmen for those w...
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...
In Experience God in Worship George Barna observes the contemporary Christian's view of worship: "Most adults will contend that a Christian has a responsibility to worship God. However, when asked to ...
David Jeremiah points out that, "In a Sports Illustrated interview, baseball hero Mickey Mantle once described his long battle with alcohol and his heartbreaking problems with his family. The intervie...
Dwight L. Moody, by his own admission, made a mistake on the eighth of October 1871 - a mistake he determined never to repeat. He had been preaching in the city of Chicago. That particular nig...
A cartoon in a national magazine recently showed a couple standing before a minister during their wedding. The minister, looking at the bride, said, "The correct response is 'I do' - not 'It's worth a...
In a recent edition of the Daily Hope with Rick Warren email newsletter, Jon Walker writes: “Jasmine is my beautiful and tenderhearted dog (cockapoo). She knows it is wrong to go near an old barn that...
In his book Falling in Love with Prayer (NexGen), Mike MacIntosh writes: "When I was a teenager I wanted so much to be accepted by my peers, and I decided that a foul mouth was a way to act like a man...
David Jeremiah writes: “The Diamond Wedding Gown, offered exclusively by a chic bridal salon in Beverly Hills, can be yours for only $12 million. It's the most expensive wedding dress in the world, an...
When our Lord said that even the hairs of your head were numbered, He probably did not mean to be taken literally. The number of hairs varies from person to person. A dark haired person has about 100,...
We are always impressed with the fervor of the apostle Paul. Nothing could keep him from winning souls to the Lord Jesus Christ. When they put him in jail he converted the jailer. What is less well kn...