I had an epiphany while listening to Johnny Cash that transformed the way I preached the Psalms. ...
Knowing Christ as our caregiver, provider and sustainer is all we really need to know....
The First Family, George W. and Laura Bush, have always included a scripture verse on their Christmas cards. Laura Bush had to change the verse on the card in light of the Sept 11th tragedy. What vers...
In the book Give Praise to God, J. Ligon Duncan III and Terry L. Johnson write, "If your children are in your home for eighteen years, you have 5,630 occasions (figuring a six-day week) for family wo...
Thunderstorms are threatening, but the theology surrounding them can be thrilling! The term theological refers to something that is of or pertaining to the field of theology. Theology is the study of ...
The Lord is my real instructor and I shall not want. He gives me peace, when chaos is all around me. He gently reminds me to pray before I speak and to do all things without murmuring and complaining....
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...
Kant wrote his famous philosophical work at the age of seventy-four. Verdi wrote Ave Maria at the age of eighty-five. At the age of eighty Tennyson wrote Crossing The Bar, Goethe finished Faust, and M...
Children might be smarter than the little lambs we sometimes think them to be. How are you shepherding your flock?...
In the washroom of his London club, British newspaper publisher and politician William Beverbrook happened to meet Edward Heath, then a young member of Parliament, about whom Beverbrook had printed an...
The biggest gold nugget ever found was uncovered in Australia. It was one and one half meters long, weighed 300 kilograms and yielded 93 kilograms of pure gold. That one lump of gold would be worth on...
When D.L. Moody was conducting evangelistic meetings, he frequently faced hecklers who were in violent disagreement with him. In the final service of one campaign, an usher handed the famous preacher ...
The Frog's Blackboard As a young boy, one of my favorite pastimes was hunting frogs along the banks of a pond near our home. While stalking those green leapers I was unaware of their unique visual pow...
A Baptist preacher and his wife decided to get a new dog. Ever mindful of the congregation, they knew the dog must also be a Baptist. They visited kennel after kennel and explained their needs. Finall...
refrigerators, people used icehouses to preserve their food. Icehouses had thick walls, no windows and a tightly fitted door. One man lost a valuable watch while working in an icehouse. A small boy wh...
David Jeremiah points out that in November 2002, "Detroit Schools Chief Executive Kenneth Burnley showed up at Southeastern High School with an announcement. Showing the students $100, he read a lette...
Joe McKeever
Listen as the congregation files out of the sanctuary on Sunday, and you'll hear the common refrain: "I didn't get anything out of ___ [fill-in-the-blank] ___."...
This week we'll learn about how to clear the static on the line when it comes to hearing God speak. ...
Jared C. Wilson
The creed, attributed to the earliest missionary followers of Jesus, distills the basic outline of what it means to be a Christian into a short summation that belies the depth and richness of what it ...