Alan Greenspan acknowledged in his recent book, The Age of Turbulence, "There are errors in this book. I do not know where they are. If I did, they wouldn’t be there. But with close to two hundred tho...
Communication is key--as is being able to give and receive messages directly....
Knowing Christ as our caregiver, provider and sustainer is all we really need to know....
British Prime Minister Tony Blair came to Washington and spoke to a joint session of Congress on July 17, 2003. Early in his speech he commented, “On our way down here, Sen. Frist was kind enough to s...
I remember the late President of Princeton Theological Seminary and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, Dr. James I. McCord, telling the story of two friends at a party. One confessed, "I don't k...
In one of Bishop Fulton Sheen’s books, he made an interesting observation about Christianity. He said, “In other religions, one must be purified before he can knock at the door. In Christianity, one k...
A minister in Darby, Pennsylvania, tells this one: The four-year-old son of an undertaker was puzzled one Easter morning when he heard about the Resurrection. "Do you mean." He asked, "that Jesus rea...
We know that Jesus lived. He was a Man in history, as well as a Man for all times. Tacitus, perhaps the greatest Roman historian born in the first century, speaks of Jesus. Josephus, a Jewish historia...
I saw a sign outside a church in Atlanta. On the sign was the name of the church, the name of the minister and, under that, the title of the sermon. The title for the sermon was "Do You Know W...
In a Joe McKeever cartoon, the pastor sits behind his desk. (We know it’s make-believe because the desk is clear of everything except his blotter and the nameplate with "Pastor" on it.) ...
In a Nov. 12 article in The Daily Standard (webzine of The Weekly Standard), Wesley J. Smith writes, "Most of the time, we never know for sure what a starved or dehydrated person experiences. But in a...
Years ago when Bishop Brown of the Episcopal Church came to speak in Virginia’s historic St. Luke's Church, Isle of Wight County, he said, “It has been said that Bishop Brown wants to be buried in St....
Tancredo Neves ran for the presidency of Brazil in the 1980s. He boldly declared that if he got 500,000 votes from his own party, not even God could keep him from being president. ...
Bruce Thielemann once wrote, “The pulpit calls those anointed to it like the sea calls its sailor; and like the sea, it batters and bruises, and does not rest...To preach, to really preach, is to die ...
A little, rich kid walked up to the Santa Claus at the local mall and asked, “So, what can I do for you?” It is hard to say what he could have done for Santa, but we know Christmas isn’t so much about...
One of the most honored and decorated naval commanders was Lord Horatio Nelson. Many do not know that when he won his greatest victories, he was suffering from gout, malaria, chest pains, depression, ...
The Mayfly lives only six hours! It gets its name from the fact that it hatches in the month of May. Yet the eggs of the Mayfly do not hatch for three years! A six-hour lifetime seems mighty brief, bu...