When we see lightning flash across the sky, we expect the roar of thunder to follow. If there were no lightning, there would be no thunder because one causes the other.
It’s like that with faith. Just as thunder always follows lightning, good works always follow true faith.
The relationship between faith…
A page in the 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said calendar had this amazing quote: “If you bought our course, ‘How To Fly In Six Easy Lessons,’ we apologize for any inconvenience caused by our failure to include the last chapter, ‘How To Land Your Plane Safely.’ Send us your name and…
William Wordsworth wrote, “The world is too much with us.” He meant that too often we get caught up in the world’s mad rush and fail to appreciate God’s creation. But it’s also easy to feel that the world is too much with us when we see people suffer for…
A successful advertising agency has inscribed these words on the floor of a rotunda in its headquarters: Community, Integrity, Restlessness, Freedom and Responsibility,
Curiosity and Winning. As employees pass by, they are reminded of the company’s core values.
It has become common for businesses to display their central beliefs in prominent places.…
Ecclesiastes 2:12-16 reminds me of the story about two brothers whose lives went in opposite directions. The younger one broke the hearts of his parents by his godless lifestyle. He became a bitter cynic and died relatively young. Few people mourned his passing.
The other brother believed on Jesus as a…
If we consider what people thought years ago about life in the future, we realize how hard it is to know what’s ahead. For instance, what if everyone had believed the patent office worker who, in 1899, said, “Everything that can be invented has been invented”? Or what if folks…
The apostle Paul told the believers at Thessalonica that he and his co-workers wanted to visit them but Satan hindered them (1 Th. 2:18).
Does it disturb you to read that a child of God can be blocked by the devil from doing what he believes to be the will of…
Scholar and historian Will Durant wrote11 volumes titled The Story Of Civilization. Across the pages of that monumental work moves a procession of the world’s outstanding persons—rulers, philosophers, military heroes, artists, scientists, and explorers.
When someone spends his life studying history and keeping company with the most influential men and women…
Have you ever had an argument with God? My friend David did. Although he was a Christian, he questioned God’s justice in allowing His innocent Son Jesus to be so cruelly punished on behalf of guilty people. As David tried to make sense out of Christ’s horrible death on the…
There are many ways to handle an overwhelming task. We may keep putting it off, hoping that God will miraculously take care of it. Or we can take the first step in the right direction.
After 40 years in the wilderness, Moses was told that it was time for the people…
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