The Extravagance of God

We serve an extravagant God. On a clear night with the unaided eye you can see 2,000 stars. Astronomers think that in the universe as a whole there are billions of stars. God made 200,000 kinds of flowers. He made 9,000 kinds of birds. God is so extravagant. Yet you never really...

The Need For Evangelism

Many fail to realize the pain of infertility. One man was so upset over his inability to reproduce that he actually committed suicide. Most infertile couples chose the wiser course of adoption. But the desire to physically reproduce oneself is very strong. Some creatures in the insect world live only to reproduce the next...

Enemies

Sometimes you will hear it said of a man who has died, "He never had an enemy." If so, he was a rare man. Few of us can say with Will Rogers, "I never met a man I didn't like." Will Rogers never met some of the people we've had to deal with. If he had he would never have said that. And usually the people we don't like are...

Death

We can certainly appreciate the dying words of Ethan Allen. The doctor said to that hero of the American Revolution: "I fear the angels are waiting for you." Ethan Allen replied "Waiting are they? Well, let 'em wait!" Most of us are reluctant to...

Cross

The Orthodox Church does not have statues like the Catholic Church, but they do revere holy pictures, or icons. In Russia the most important of these icons was the Virgin of Vladimir. Both Ivan the Terrible and Nicholas II carried it into battle. They believed they could not be defeated if that picture went before their army. We...

Church

England's Coventry Cathedral is one of the most impressive church buildings in the world. The old Cathedral was destroyed by Nazi bombs during World War II. After the war, Christian youth from Germany came over and helped clean up the rubble. The architect left the ruins of the old church as a kind of forecourt through which...