Dr. Paul Sheppard looks at the discouragement Elijah experienced after his victory on Mt. Carmel; God's promises to those who feel like giving up (based on 1 Kings chapters 17-19).
Jesus said, "Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen of them. If you do you, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven."
In a Joe McKeever cartoon, the pastor sits behind his desk. (We know it's make-believe because the desk is clear of everything except his blotter and the nameplate with "Pastor" on it.)
Our planet is on the outer edge of our galaxy, The Milky Way. Light from stars on the opposite edge takes 100,000 years to reach us-and that is traveling more than 186,000 miles per second. Our sun is only one among two hundred billion stars in our galaxy.
J. Floyd Jones in the 1958 Word Lectures at Guilford College told of a Maine farmer who built his stone fence four feet wide and three feet high. Why? That way if it blows over it will be better than it was before.