Stewardship

For years preachers have used the Dead Sea as an illustration of the importance of giving back. The have made the point that the Dead Sea receives but has no outlet to give to and that is what makes it dead. Now it no longer even receives. We have a new...

Return Of Christ

Robert Shannon tells the story of the Waldensians, a small Protestant group greatly persecuted in Europe in the seventeenth century. In 1686 they were exiled to Switzerland where they remained until 1689. Then they crossed the mountains, going 128 miles in 8 days over...

Preaching

A teenager came out of the church service and began to complain to her friends. "That sermon was way to long," she said, before realizing the preacher was right behind her. Trying to dig herself out of the hole she had dug she tried again; "Well, I guess it...

Potential

Michaelangelo started forty-four statues, but completed only fourteen. In a museum in Italy, you can see his thirty unfinished works. There are huge chunks of marble with only a hand, or a foot, or a leg completed. Are our lives like...

Perseverance

The famous jockey, Willie Shoemaker, once lost a race because he thought he had won it. He mistook a marker for the finish line and stood up in the stirrups. The horse took this to mean the race was over and slowed down just enough for...

Praise To God

Wrapping up Johnny Carson's Tonight Show 27th anniversary program was the Doxology, as sung by L.A. Dodger Orel Hershiser. Following last year's World Series, the pitching ace delighted the late night host with a sample of the songs he sang to calm himself between innings. Carson recalled that Hershiser, an outspoken...

Pornography

According to a U.S. government study based on over 200,000 pieces of pornography, nearly three-quarters of all pornographic material is prepared for children under the age of 18. Pornography in the U.S. amounts to...

Pleasing God

A brilliant young concert pianist was performing for the first time in public. The audience sat enthralled as beautiful music flowed from his disciplined fingers. The people could hardly take their eyes off this young virtuoso. As the final not faded, the audience burst into applause. Everyone was standing - except one old man...