Attitide

Recently the comic strip Family Circus by Bill Keane reflected the enormous difference one's attitude makes. The strip shows an ambulance going by with siren screaming. The little boy is putting his hands over his ears and saying, "Oh no! That siren means somebody's in trouble." The little girl, on the other hand, has her...

Water Of Life

The city of Bath, England is famous for its mineral waters and hot springs. It is thought that the springs were formed from rain water that fell ten thousand years ago. The water penetrated the earth and soaked down to the deep geothermal interior. There it was heated and then came at last to the surface again. Long ago Jesus...

Viewpoint

A London newspaper, The Guardian, carried this headline in a story about the game of rugby: Wales Thrashes France. Then it gave the score -- Wales 3 France 30! For centuries people have been reporting the defeat of Christianity and preaching the victory of secularism, but the final score will tell a different story.

Steps to Character

A penitent monk single-handedly carved steps in the stones leading to the top of Mt. Sinai where Moses received the Law from God. There are 1,360 steps to the pinnacle. Pilgrims still climb those steps today. There are only eight steps to the pinnacle of Christian character, according to 2 Peter 1:5-7. The steps are faith...

Riches

On Friday April 14, 2000 the stock market took a dramatic fall. Hardest hit were the technology stocks. In that one day Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the world's richest man, lost eleven billion dollars. He lost eleven billion dollars in one day! It was dramatic proof of the Biblical text in Proverbs 23:5: "Riches certainly...

The Price Of Peace

When World War I seemed imminent, the enormously wealthy Andrew Carnegie went to see the Kaiser. He handed him a signed check with the amount left blank. He told him he could write in any amount if he would stop his country from going to war. The Kaiser refused. A price had to be paid for us to make peace with God. No...

Light

Thomas Edison changed the world with his invention of the light bulb. The last words he ever spoke were: "It is very beautiful over there." When he died the President of the United States suggested that lights all over America be dimmed in his honor. But in honor of Christ we turn on the lights, the lights of truth and justice and...

Future Life

National Public Radio was interviewing veteran radio and television reporter Judy Muller about her new book entitled "Now This." She chose the title because those two words are used so often by radio and television news people to move into a commercial. She remarked that those two words would also make a good epitaph...

The Cross Endures

Sir John Bowring was a famous British diplomat. He was fluent in thirteen languages. He was twice elected to Parliament. He was knighted by the Queen. He was sent on diplomatic missions to China, Thailand and Italy. He was the governor of Hong Kong. When he was governor of Hong Kong he took a trip by ship along the...

Commitment

Everyone has heard of the famous British journalist, Henry M. Stanley. He is the man who was sent to find the great missionary David Livingstone. Livingstone had not been heard from for many months and some thought he might be dead. In 1869 the publisher of the New York Herald sent Stanley to cover the opening of the...