Church Culture

Two women were visiting at their 25th school reunion, and one commented, "I've lived a well-planned life. My first husband was a millionaire, my second was an actor,my third husband was a minster, and now I'm married to a funeral director." "Why is that a well-planned...

Carl Henry wrote in Twilight of a Great Civilization: "We may even now live in the half generation before all hell breaks loose, and if its fury is contained we will be remembered, if we are remembered at all, as those who used their hands and hearts and minds and very bodies to plug the dikes...

Exercise

"In Returning to Your First Love, pastor Tony Evans tells how his younger brother, after rebelling against their father's authority, was sent packing, suitcase in hand. Twenty minutes later, the banished one returned home, asking to be reinstated to the family. He had been put out in order to learn respect, and ...

An optimist sees the best in the world, while a pessimist sees only the worst. An optimist finds the positive in the negative, and a pessimist can only find the negative in the positive. For example, as a duck...

According to international news accounts, Mathieu Boya delivered in 1987 the most devastating golf shot in history. His errant drive struck a flying bird, which flopped into the open cockpit of a taxiing jet. The startled pilot lost control and slammed his plane into four shiny mirage jet fighters. The entire...

Chuck Swindoll has a close friend who spent a day at San Diego's SeaWorld. "While he and his wife were near the main mall, they saw something unusual in the distance: a bunch of ducks coming toward them on roller skates! They could do it, my friend said, but as they got closer, he could tell...

Doubt

Do you have a problem with attendance? It is the matter of getting people to show up at the services. How is this for a positive? There are 22,000,000 persons who show up each day at McDonalds. They never give up on giving you a reason for being at their place. Probably the most clever and...