FINDING PHILLIP When Phillip was eight, he, his brother, John and sister Lauren, and all their cousins were in St. Louis on vacation. While downtown visiting all the sites, they went to the St. Louis…
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THE BEST WITNESS Prayer and praise are the most explicit and clearest testimonies to the reality of God in a God-denying or God-indifferent world. Patrick D. Miller, quoted by Martin E. Marty in Context, December…
NO CHRISTIAN VARIETY SHOW We need to let go of our intellectual idea of worship and realize there is more to worship than a sermon; we have to let go of our evangelistic notion of…
HIGH PLACES AND WORSHIP High places frequently had an evil meaning for worshippers. The high places were the locations for the exotic temples for idols, with the sensual forms of worship and activities that made…
CELLULAR LINK TO GOD A pastor was on his way to church with his three-year-old daughter. On the way the pastor remembered an urgent message he was supposed to give his wife. He reached for…
LIVINGSTONE ON PRAISE David Livingstone, the great missionary to Africa, once observed that failure to praise is "the capital crime of the Lord's people." He then went on to add that "A line of praise…
UNSEEN SWIMMER The following true story was sent to us by the Reverend Dr. I. Ross Bartlett of St. Andrews By-The- Lake United Church in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Bartlett knows Billy McCormick and has…
ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME At a recent community dinner, the organizers realized half way through the meal that they had forgotten to say Grace. A pastor who was also in the middle of his…
GOD NEVER HELPS In the August, 1993 issue of Guideposts, actress Mariette Hartley -- who played opposite from James Garner on over two hundred and fifty Polaroid commercials -- tells a story she heard when…
PEOPLE WHO PRAY The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; but I mean…
SO HELP ME GOD At the close of the oath of office for the President of the United States are these words: "So help me God." President Bill Clinton spoke of his thoughts while saying…
WHEN TO TALK TO JESUS Jimmy talked to Bobby on the playground today. He told him about Jesus. Bobby went home and told his mother. His mother said that if Jimmy kept talking to him…
PRAYER WARRIOR In the summer of 1994 the Associated Press reported about a robbery that was overcome by prayer. In Conway, Arkansas, Cindy Hartman appealed to a higher authority when she saw that her house…
GIVERS WHO STOP AT NOTHING The minister prayed, "Protect us from members of this church who, when it comes to giving, stop at nothing."
A BEDTIME PRAYER I wanted to write a prayer for my youngsters to say at bedtime. There are so many of them, but somehow, none seemed just right for my children. So I produced one…
TOO BUSY NOT TO PRAY One of the excuses that so many people give for not praying is "I'm just too busy. I don't have time to pray." We all know what being busy is…
LET ME WIN, GOD! Keith Miller tells about his seven-year-old daughter, Mary-Keith, who was in much distress over a chin- up test she was to take the next day in her physical education class. She…
DO I LOVE HIM? The great Baptist preacher F. B. Meyer was staying with Missionary C. T. Studd. During his stay, he asked Studd why he studied the Bible so early. Studd answered: "Last night…
CHAIRS AND PRAYERS A new associate pastor was asked by a woman in the church to visit her father in the hospital who was dying of cancer. The associate went to see her father. There…
A LIGHT FOR SAFE FLIGHT In October of 1994, Pastor Andy Meverden of Galilee Baptist Church visited one of his church members who was a retired airline captain and a veteran World War II pilot.…
