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Faith Promises

The Chemistry of Faith A man who works in the field of chemistry pointed out that if you mix hydrogen and oxygen, the well-known components of water, you get no reaction-and no water! But if you add a...

Work

God works wonderfully through the faithfulness of people in many different vocations. It isn't just through the clergyman that our Father providentially cares for and speaks to us. It isn't just in a ...

To Illustrate: Prayer

News reports have introduced us to a church choir director named Rocky, who wants to bring down gas prices through prayer. ...

Change

Have you seen some of these observations about modern life that have been making the rounds on the internet? You know you’re living in 2005 when......

Illustration: Biblical Literacy vs. Worldly Advice

There's a lot of potentially good-sounding advice to be gained, but not all of it rests on sound biblical verbiage....

The Stain Of Sin

Consumer Reports put out a little book entitled "How to Clean Practically Anything." It tells you, what solvent to use for a particular stain. Glycerin will remove the stain from a ball point pen. Boi...

To Illustrate: Serendipity

In 1820, a man named Yorgos was digging in his field on the island of Milos in Greece. As he was digging, he hit upon some stones. ...

Making Marriage Last

Someone said, "Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised how many re-enlist.” Hollywood stars seem especially prone to it. Zsa Zsa Gabor has been married nine times, Micke...

To Illustrate: Adversity

Dave Dillon, CEO of the Kroger Company, recently told a story about an employee who inspired him. His name is Steve Martinez. Steve is the store manager at one of the company’s stores in Wichita. Seve...

Faithful Servants

General Eisenhower once rebuked one of his Generals for referring to a soldier as "just a Private." He reminded him that the Army could function better without its Generals, than it could without its ...

Self-Centeredness

What is the smallest country in the world? Some would answer Monaco and others would answer Vatican City. Even though it is disputed some would answer "The Sovereign and Military Order of Malta." The ...

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving by way of daily thanks-living demands that we pray, yes; but it also demands that we "unload" our prayers at the doorsteps of those who are hungry, lonely and just plain without....

Aging & Marriage

Jacob, age 92, and Rebecca, age 89, living in Florida, are excited about their decision to get married. They go for a stroll to discuss the wedding and on the way they pass a drugstore. Jacob suggests...

Old Age

Grandma Moses Her name was Anna Mary Robertson Moses, affectionately know as Grandma Moses. She was born on a farm in Washington Co., N.Y. Without formal art training and largely self-educated, she...

Illustration: Mirror, Reflection

The first mirrors were made from highly polished metals such as copper or brass. Since the 1600s, mirrors have been made from plate glass with a backing of silver covered by coatings of copper, lacque...

King Of Kings

Recently the body of Ethiopia's King Haile Selassie was reburied. He had claimed to be descended from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. He was revered as a god by the Rastafarian sect. During his l...

Missionaries

A missionary returning home after many years of service was asked, "Tell me what you found when you arrived in New Guinea." "Found, I found something that looked more hopeless than if I had been sent...

Salvation Through Christ

A blind man once stood on a corner at a busy intersection reading aloud Acts 4 from a portion of a Braille Bible. A gentleman on his way home stopped at the edge of the crowd that had gathered to list...

God's Will

Sometimes we wonder, "What did I do to deserve this?" or "Why did God have to do this to me?" A daughter is telling her Mother how everything is going wrong, she's failing algebra, her boyfriend broke...

Time

In A.W. Tozer's book Man: The Dwelling Place of God, there is a reference to an Associated Press story about a British nobleman who died at 89 years of age. ...