Studies show that people who don’t reveal their deep thoughts and feelings tend to be less well-adjusted than those who do. But it is also true that those who freely talk about all their weaknesses are usually not very well-adjusted either. Men and women with healthy personalities do expose their…
We can all relate to Heman. As we read Psalm 88, we quickly realize that things weren’t going very well for him. Although he began by addressing the Lord as the One who could save him, he continued with 17 verses of darkness.
Whenever we feel the way Heman did, we…
A minister flying to the West Coast struck up a conversation with the passenger next to him. “What’s your occupation?” he asked. His seatmate replied, “I’m a professor of astronomy. And what about you?” “I’m a pastor,” the minister answered.
The astronomer shifted a bit in his seat and then confessed,…
The December 1995 edition of Writer’s Digest included a list of books every writer must read. I was glad to see that the number one book on the list was the Bible. This is what several authors had to say about it.
“Lay chosen faith aside and read this beautifully written…
A more vocal man-hater I had never met,” said missionary Sophie Jenista. She was describing Erika, a woman she sat next to on a flight from Australia to Singapore. The woman hated men because of an abusive husband.
As they talked, Sophie told her seatmate that God could replace her hard…
When we are young, we tend to live as if we think we’ll never die. Yet the psalmist said that if we want to gain a heart of wisdom, we need to start numbering our days, whatever our age (90:12). The best way to number them is to make sure…
The daughter of a well-known Chicago crime boss has written a book in which she tells of the uneasy fear that continuously stalked her father. His gangland-style death later confirmed that his fears were not unfounded.
Many people live with fears that are as real to them as the dread of…
When Alexander Whyte (1837-1921), the great Scottish preacher, was a boy, he badly injured his arm in a threshing machine. Instead of going to a hospital for almost certain amputation, he was treated at home by a neighbor. When the boy complained of his suffering, she simply said to him,…
Three months before my father died of cancer, he wrote me a letter. I had just left the security of teaching and had gone into fulltime freelance writing. Life was very uncertain.
Dad said, “I know you, I know what’s behind you, and I am pretty sure that I understand your…
The Bible is not a written record of perfect people (except for Jesus, of course). From beginning to end, God’s Word points out in painful detail the mistakes made by its characters.
Adam and Eve failed to obey God’s specific restrictions (Gen. 2:15-17; 3:1-7). Abram lied about his relationship to Sarai…
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