The first of these questions has interrogated my mind for years to this very day. The second question frightens me, because people are people, and religious people are religious people. What one is capable of, we all are capable of. Of course, we will never grasp the answers to the first question in its deepest […]
5. JESUS GETS DEEP UNDER THE SKIN It all goes much deeper than the traditional explanation that we have just examined to sufficiently understand the Jewish loathing of Jesus, valid as that argument seems to be. Haven’t you ever heard somebody say of someone else, “He’s really starting to get under my skin!” In other […]
This will be a most significant study, and I am sure that each of us will find ourselves in it. It goes without saying that the miracle in Luke 17:11-19 is one of the most astounding miracles ever performed by Jesus Christ. But even more astounding were the reactions in the lives of those who […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The late Dr. Francis Schaeffer told the story about his college – Hampden Sidney College in Virginia. He related how one day a revival broke out among the students all over campus. He recalls walking down the hall and someone would say, “I have examined myself and this is what I found – I need […]
He most certainly has over the years. God has shed His grace on His daughter – Miss America! Incredibly! Did you ever read history in that fashion and with that perspective? It is really something. Did you ever try to figure it all out militarily without the hand of God upon the land of the […]