A HIGH PRICE FOR CHANGE What is it you and I are willing to die for? Centuries ago on the island of Taiwan there lived a kind and benevolent ruler named Goho. Being humane, one…
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PRESERVED FOR SALVATION In a former parish, I met a young Japanese lady who had married an American soldier and immigrated to this country. She had been attending worship services with her husband, and when…
COMMUNICATING THE NEED FOR CHANGE Emile Ballard is our American Baptist Missionary with the Telakhon people in Thailand. She wrote about the process of communicating the gospel, the good news of the love of God…
QUICK CONDITIONING Learning from experience is pictured by the cat that sits on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also…
THOUGHT LIFE Sow a thought, reap an act Sow an act, reap a habit Sow a habit, reap a character Sow a character, reap a destiny Author Unknown
WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN? In the Letter to Diognetus, which dates back to the second century A.D., an anonymous writer describes a strange people who are IN the world, but not OF the world: They…
THE POWER OF CHANGE Dear Michael: Just this morning I was reading from the Congressional Record, April 26, 1990, about the 38th Annual National Prayer Breakfast. In the meeting President Bush made this comment: "I…
BURNING PEYOTE BRIDGES We have a church among the Navajo Indians in Gamerco, New Mexico. Pastor Darrell Henson says that one night a Peyote man and his wife came to church and talked about some…
READY FOR CHANGE? When trains were first invented, several "experts" agreed that if a train went at the frightful speed of fifteen miles an hour, the passengers would get nosebleeds and they would suffocate when…
WILL THE CHURCH CHANGE? Lough: For years in our churches creative people have been ignored and accused of making unnecessary waves. What should be the Christian's response to creative change? Hendricks: I think the key…
REAL CHANGE: In 1973 I attended a counseling seminar in Gary, Indiana. Dr. Jay E. Adams spoke at that seminar. He began his sermon/lecture with a corny joke that drove home the thesis of his…
SO FAR SO GOOD! Many people live their lives like the high rise workman who was carelessly walking on an upper beam one day and fell off. As he was falling, a man on the…
"God is looking for those through whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves." By A.W. Tozer
GAMBLING, GREED, REPENTANCE: THE REPENTANT GAMBLER A deacon in my church approached me one Sunday Evening and confessed that he had won about $50.00 from a football pool. He explained that on his sales calls…
EDIFICATION Love one another Give preference to one another Let us not judge one another Build up one another Care for one another Serve one another Live in peace with one another Confess your sins…
BUSY MAN "Lord, forgive me -- I've failed You again Some believers wouldn't consider it a failure, but I know better. It's not prayerlessness, not this time. Nor evil thoughts or vain imagination. Or even…
LOOKING FOR MEANING Dr. Victor Frankl, a psychotherapist, wrote a wonderful book entitled Man's Search for Meaning. The book is in its 73rd printing, has been published in 20 languages, and the English editions alone…
SHORT SHOT In Washington D.C. a visitor asked a passerby on C Street, "Which side is the State Department on?" The reply, "Ours, I think."
SHORT SHOT After the Six Day War, Egypt's Nasser said the war was unfair because Israel had two million Jews and he didn't have any.
SHORT SHOT How can you prove that Jesus was Jewish? 1) He was thirty years old and wasn't married, 2) His mother thought he was God, 3) He went to work for His Father.
