Family Trouble

Every day in the USA 2,795 teens (women under 20) get pregnant. 1,106 teens have abortions. 1.295 teens give birth. 67 babies die before one month of life. 105 babies die before their first birthday. 10 children are killed by guns.

Watchfulness

The Cycle The average age of the world's great civilization has been 200 years, we read, and those nations progressed through this sequence: From Bondage to Spiritual Faith - From Spiritual Faith to Great Courage From Courage to Liberty - From Liberty to Abundance From Abundance to Selfishness -

Family Care

On here 80th birthday, a woman from Brooklyn decided to prepare her last will and testament. She went to her rabbi to make two final requests. First, she insisted on cremation. "What is your second request?" the rabbi asked. "I want my ashes scattered over Bloomingdale's." "Why Bloomingdale's?" "Th

Warn The Wicked

When the unsinkable Titanic sank… warning after warning had been sent to tell them they were speeding into an ice-field. But the messages were ignored. In fact, when a nearby ship sent an urgent warning, the Titanic was talking to Cape Race about the time chauffeurs were to meet arriving passe

Visitation Of The Sick

Sometimes even when people mean well they can create more problems than they solve. One young pastor was making hospital rounds for the first time with a visit to an elderly parishioner. He came in and plopped down on the side of her bed. He inquired aggressively into the nature of her surgery. It w

False Teachers

Three Tenses We could hardly believe the advertisement. It comes from Holt Renfrew and it focuses on a "Future Perfect Micro-Targeted Skin Gel" that promises to give your skin what it needs - luminosity. The ad reads: "The past forgiven. The present improved, The Future Perfect." It used to be Gosp

Unprofitable Sin

Sin Costs! While being entertained in the home of a fine Christian architect, I was surprised when he told me that his next project was a jail! He remarked that the cost of construction for such a building was high, amounting to approximately $10,000 per occupant. Imagine! In order to house crimina

Unbelief Of Religious Men

A bishop was accustomed to paying an annual visit to a small religious college. On one such visit, the bishop engaged in an after-dinner conversation with the college president. The religious leader offered the opinion that the millennium could not be long in coming since everything about nature had

Faithlessness

Did you hear about the farmer that had a brilliant dog? He had a neighbor that just absolutely was negative, no matter what.If it was raining, the farmer would say to his neighbor, "Boy, look at it rain, God's sort of washing it clean." "Yeah, but if it keeps up it's gonna flood." Then the sun wou

True Success

The person who succeeds is not the one who holds back, fearing failure, nor the one who never fails… but rather the one who moves on in spite of failure. As Lowell wrote: It's not failure, but low aim that's a crime. As Teddy Roosevelt believed: Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win