He Will Guide You

John 16:12-15 A few months ago my wife and I drove separately to a retreat center in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Because I was preaching a Sunday night service 200 miles away, my wife decided to leave home early and make her way to the hotel. She had some difficulty...

Selfishness and Unselfishness

In his book The Pleasure of His Company, Roger Palms tells about two men who work for the same nonprofit organization. "One lives as the friend of God," he wrote, "the other does not," According to Palms, this is evident by the way they use their expense accounts. One always orders steak; the other does not. One always...

Self Image

I won't say that my parent's didn't like me, but on my 4th birthday, my parents gave me an abandoned refrigerator. It took my father two hours to get the door back on!!

God Sees

Oscar Hammerstein had seen a picture, a photograph of the top of the Statue of Liberty from a helicopter. And he said, "This picture reveals the intricate detail that has been sculpted on Lady Liberty's head, her hair and her crown and all of those things at that angle which no one could ever see," And he said, "I got to thinking...

Salvation By Faith

Many born-again Christians cannot recall just when they were saved. Perhaps they grew up in a Christian home and didn't have a dramatic conversion. Yet they love and trust Christ. Some are every sensitive people, and Satan may try to make them doubt their salvation by suggesting that if they can't remember the date of ...

Sacrificial Giving

I just read some rather disappointing figures in the latest issue of Leadership, a journal for church leaders (Fall, 1989, p. 97). The average percentage of after-tax income given by U.S. Protestants to their churches in 1938 was 3.05%....

Sacrificial Giving

A vital part of worship is giving. We are to respond to the needs of the church and God's people in a loving, sacrificial manner. Leslie B. Flynn illustrated this kind of personal giving in his book Worship. He wrote, "A man was packing a shipment of food contributed by a school for the poor people of Appalachia. He was separating...

Sacrifice

Have you wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? 5 signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. 12 had their homes ransacked and burned. 2 lost their sons in the revolutionary...