Church Adaptability

The story is told about an upscale, conservative church during the heyday of the hippies. One Sunday morning, about halfway through the service, a young man entered the church, barefoot and wearing a tie-dye T-shirt. Because the church was crowded, the visitor couldn't find a seat and the ushers had

Grandparents

When the three-year-old boy opened the birthday gift from his grandmother, he discovered a water pistol. He squealed with delight and headed for the nearest sink.Dad was not so pleased. He turned to Grandma and said, "I'm surprised at you. Don't you remember how we used to drive you crazy with wat

Conscience

John Wooden once observed, "There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience."

Christ – Obedience

"God's great paradox is that nations are not changed from the top down but from the bottom up, not by government edicts or kingly proclamations, but by ordinary people's lives transformed, one by one. That was the case in the days of the early church, which eventually rocked the Roman Empire, and it

Unseen God

One person noted that: God is a lot like our pastor. I don't see him through the week and I don't understand him on Sunday.

Graduation

Advice to Graduates by Mary Schmich (not Kurt Vonnegut): Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering

Trials

If God sends us on stony paths, He provides strong shoes. - Corrie Ten Boom

Grace and Acceptance

In a recent sermon on the Prodigal Son passage, Jimmy Gentry tells this story: "I remember when Fred found Christ and asked him into his life back in 1973 in my hometown. Most of us couldn't believe it. He was as low-down as they came. He was bad news. Fred did drugs and even sold drugs on the high

The Salt

If you were to evaporate a ton of water from the Pacific Ocean, you would get approximately 79 pounds of salt. A ton of Atlantic water would yield 81 pounds. And from the Dead Sea you would get almost 500 pounds of salt. As these statistics demonstrate, the earth's bodies of water vary greatly in t

Grace And Winning

A lot of people thought they had become frequent flier "millionaires" - until the airline took back what it had given. According to the Sept. 15 issue of USA Today, "Instead of participants winning 250 frequent-flier miles for playing an Internet game sponsored by MasterCard, the airline (Continent