Winning Watermelons!
Hope Arkansas is a city with a least two claims to fame. Of course, it’s the birthplace of former President Bill Clinton. But you may not know that it’s also […]
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Love Is Something You Do
Someone has said of today’s Christians: “Too many people have just enough religion to feel uncomfortable doing wrong, but not enough religion to feel comfortable doing right.” It also has
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Right This Very Minute!
If it hasn’t started already, in just a few short weeks we will begin hearing the familiar Christmas song hit parade playing in shopping malls and businesses throughout the land.
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Heavy Burden It Is
With a healthy dose of both candor and humor, someone has said, “To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.” –1 The acclaimed author and retired pediatric surgeon Dr. Bernie Siegel
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We Are Kings
In a little story called, “Out of Order,” the author describes how he felt when he saw a young mother and her four-year-old son standing at a candy machine. The
Waffle Fries or Crinkle Cut?
As the story goes, a newly promoted corporate executive was so puffed up with pride that he couldn’t help bragging about his new title to anyone who would listen. Fed
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Children’s Sunday Sermons August 2017
Children’s Sunday Sermon August 6, 2017 Good morning boys and girls. Today I want to tell you a story about a little ant who felt like he wasn’t being treated
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Upside Down and Inside Out
It is interesting to note that Scripture offers not the slightest evidence to support any speculation about Christ’s physical appearance. We don’t know what Jesus looked like. We don’t know
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Lean On Me
The story is told of a famous monastery in Greece, perched high on a three-hundred-foot cliff. The Abbey can only be reached by a terrifying ride in a swaying basket.
Sway With God!
A young boy always concluded his bedtime prayers with a few requests. “Dear God,” he would say, “please take care of Mommy and Daddy and my brother Evan and Aunt
Come Out Of The Stands!
Around about this time every summer, some people wish that their favorite baseball team had a player who, never strikes out, never makes an error, and plays every position perfectly.
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Children’s Sunday Sermons July 2017
Children’s Sunday Sermon July 2, 2017 Good morning girls and boys. Will those of you who are perfect please raise your hand? I don’t see any hands. Isn’t anyone here
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All There Is!
More than four hundred years ago, in the great Italian center of the arts, Florence, a block of the purest marble, seventeen feet high, lay on its side gathering dust
Keep Moving!
The late Theodore Geisel, best known as the author of the “Dr. Seuss” children’s books, was once invited to give the commencement address at a college in Illinois. He began
The Sound of Silence
There is no single thing on earth about which we have total knowledge because all creation is permeated with the ultimate Mystery — which is God. In a story by
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When Clever is Dumb
A wise man once said, being “too clever is dumb.”-1 And when we say that someone is “too clever by half,” we often mean that they are actually being devious
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Arrive In Style
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to travel like a king, you’ll want to listen to this. . . Earlier this year, Saudi Arabian ruler King Salman
The Road To Fredonia
In a “Peanuts” comic strip, Linus is listening to Sally as she boasts about her religious zeal, and her potential as an effective evangelist. She says to Linus, “I could
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April Fools?
When we talk about the jarring contrast between the “haves” and “have-nots” of this world, it is all-too-often through a sentimental haze of vague piety, demanding little more than lip
The Glory of the Story
The beloved author and poet Khalil Gibran wrote, “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” For
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