The people were coming into church as they did from Sunday to Sunday. They were second and third generation confessing Christians. All of them were well-dressed in their Sunday going-to-church best. Only this Sunday, there was a man seated on the church steps that no one had ever seen before. There he was, right by […]
David Brainerd was a student at Yale. He would have graduated at the top of his 1724 class. He declared himself to be a Christian. Yale would not graduate him nor would they ordain him. Finally a Scottish mission group commissioned Brainerd to work among the Indians. He was 24 years old. He was placed […]
Robert C. Morgan in his book Lift High The Cross, tells about an unusual cross that stood one Lenten season in Dallas on the lawn of a local church. The cross, which was more than ten feet high, stirred a great deal of controversy within the congregation as well as throughout the city. Pictures of […]
I am not a Christian pastor. I am not a Christian husband. I am not a Christian father. I am not a Christian anything. I am a Christian period. Acts 11:26 is where the word “Christian” first appears in the Bible. It was in a city called Antioch that the disciples of Christ were first […]
It has been said that there has seldom if ever been a finer person involved in American sports than former UCLA head basketball coach John Wooden. Wooden is one of the most successful basketball coaches ever, as such things are measured by statistics. Mind you, he won ten NCAA championships, believe it or not. His […]
It was a time-stopping moment when Montgomery Ward closed its doors never to be opened again. Montgomery Ward for many years had been a huge factor in American retailing. But back in the 30s there were only two basic choices of catalogs and everybody knew it – the Sears Roebuck catalog and the Montgomery Ward […]
There was an article in the newspaper sometime back about a fake antenna that came on the market for cellular phones. It cost $19.99 as most gimmicks do. The antenna gave the appearance of the real thing, but it was a fake. It was for people who couldn’t afford a cellular phone but did not […]