Personal Dedication

In the book The Vance Havner Devotional Treasury, the author wrote, "I shall never forget Dr. R.A. Torrey saying to me as a young preacher, 'Young man, make up your mind on one thing and stick to it.'" Havner comments, "The Christian life should be like a sword with one point, not like a broom endin

Pornography

Just before he was executed in Florida, serial killer Ted Bundy made a last-gasp grab for respectability as a crime expert. Asked by religious broadcaster James Dobson what made him turn violent, Bundy put the blame on graphic pornography. "Like an addiction, you keep craving something that is h

Eternal Security

Adrian Rogers recently wrote, "Nothing can separate you from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus your Lord. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall

Fear, Warning

David received a parrot for his birthday. This parrot was fully-grown with a bad attitude and very rude. David tried hard to change the bird's attitude and was constantly saying polite words, playing soft music, anything that came to mind. Nothing worked. He yelled at the bird, the bird got worse. H

Sacraments

Barbara Brown Taylor writes, "When I was seven, my family moved to a new town, and the Methodist pastor came to call. Before my parents could trap him in the living room I took him on a tour of the yard, where he admired the nursery I had set up to save helpless tadpoles from murderous neighbor boys

Hope and Despair

Kefa Sempangi (whose story is told in the book A Distant Grief), was a national pastor in Africa and barely escaped with his family from brutal oppression and terror in his home country of Uganda. They made their way to Philadelphia, where a group of Christians began caring for them. One day his wif

God – Seeing

First Look From the Westminster Teacher I gleaned this story of an artist's daughter who lost her eye-sight when she was a baby. After her mother died the girl's father became her constant and affectionate companion. For years her blindness was considered incurable. Then a new type of surgery promi

Old Age

How does old age feel? Someone once said that if you want to know what it feels like, smear dirt on your glasses, stuff cotton in your ears, put on heavy shoes that are too big and wear gloves, then try to spend the day in a normal way.

Evangelists

Rigby In the late 1800's and early 1900's, Alexander Whyte pastored a large church in Edinburgh. During that time, a salesman by the name of Rigby would travel to Edinburgh regularly just to hear him preach. He would often invite other businessmen to accompany him to the services. One Sunday mo

Knowing Too Much

A small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness to the stand in a trial -- a grandmotherly, elderly woman.He approached her and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?" She responded, "Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I've known you since you were a young boy. And frankly, you've been