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What Is Love?

A group of 4-8 year olds was asked, "What does love mean?" Here are some of their answers: "When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore so my grandfather d...

8 Characteristics of Evangelistic Preaching

What does evangelistic preaching sound/look/feel like? Here are eight characteristics....

Illustration: Love

A group of 4-8 year olds was asked, "What does love mean?" Here are some of their answers:...

Earthly Riches

Businessmen say lives 'empty': A study of 4,126 male business executives reveals widespread dissatisfaction with the corporate experience. Forty-eight percent of all middle managers said that despite ...

Innocence

A wonderful little story is making the rounds: It was almost time for school to dismiss and a mother noticed it looked like rain. So she drove toward school to pick up her eight-year-old daughter. S...

Illustration: Watchfulness, Preparation

Whether one is attentive and ready to act too often depends on one's sense of urgency rather than possessing the maturity to remain prepared at all times....

Persistence

The “Chicken Soup For The Soul" series has been an unqualified success. It has generated over eighty best-sellers. The first book alone sold eight million copies. The “chicken soup" trademark has b...

Heavenly Home

Safely Home Eric Barker, a missionary from Great Britain spent over 50 years in Portugal preaching the Gospel, often under adverse conditions. During World War II, the situation became so critical tha...

Forgiveness

In 1961 U.S. Representative John Lewis, at the time a civil rights activist and seminary student, was beaten severely at a South Carolina bus stop. Forty-eight years later, Elwin Wilson, the man who ...

Medical Ethics

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...

Third Sunday of Advent (B): The True Meaning of Christmas

Santa Claus, sleigh bells, reindeer. Snow falling, icicles forming, Christmas music playing. Christmas lights, Christmas trees, Christmas presents. Shopping, planning, cooking, eating, visiting with f...

Compassion and Service

Charles Swindoll wrote, "Who really cared? His was a routine admission to busy Bellevue Hospital. A charity case, one among hundreds. A drunken bum from the Bowery with a slashed throat. The Bowery … ...

Church Humor

Here are some comments you'll probably never hear at church: 1. Hey! It's my turn to sit in the front pew. 2. I was so enthralled, I never noticed your sermon went 25 minutes over time. 3. Personall...

Illustration: Skill, Exaggeration

The unbelievable escapes appreciation due to ... exaggeration?...

Worship Sevice

One Sunday morning, the pastor noticed little Alex was staring up at the large plaque that hung in the foyer of the church. It was covered with names and small American flags were mounted on either si...

Perseverance

Harold Sherman quite awhile ago, wrote a book entitled How to Turn Failure Into Success. In it he gives a "Code of Persistence." If you give up too easily, write this down and read it daily. 1. I will...

The Three Voices of God

How can we hear from God? And what if the counsel we're getting seems to contradict?...

Service

David Jeremiah points out that, "The Dead Sea is so salty it contains no fish or plant life. Why? There are absolutely no outlets! A great volume of water pours into it, but nothing flows out. Many in...