BIBLE BASICS Have we really put the Bible back into the hands, hearts and minds of people or are the present day superstar preachers simply the current day equivalent of the pre-reformation pope and priest?…
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THE GOD OF THE BIBLE There is someone who faces us as benevolent and absolutely reliable; not an object, not an empty, un-echoing universe, not a merely silent infinite, not an undefinable, nameless Gnostic chasm,…
FREE TO FORGIVE Mitsuo Fuchida was the general commander of the air squadron that performed the raid on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Following the war he met a lieutenant whom he had known…
EAR PROBLEMS Dr. Elliot's research indicates that a crease in one or both earlobes may be an early warning sign of ear disease. It seems that the same kind of blood vessels supply both the…
THE MESSAGE OF THE BOOK Jerome, a priest and scholar, translated the Bible from Greek to Latin. Near the end of his life, Jerome was living near Bethlehem translating some of the Bible when he…
MAJOR SPIRITUAL NEEDS In a recent issue of Fellowship In Prayer, Gallup offered these six predominate spiritual needs of Americans, according to survey responses: 1. People need to believe that life is meaningful and has…
THE REAL RUNNER In the 1972 Olympics at Munich, Germany, the climax of the marathon race was marked by confusion and deception. Frank Shorter was the U.S. bet to win the gold and having led…
THIS IS HIS BUSINESS John Vassar was a kindly gentleman who used every opportunity to speak a good word for Jesus. One day while waiting in a hotel lobby for a friend, he conversed with…
THROUGH IT OR THROUGH YOU An old rabbi was walking down the village street. A member of his congregation came up and boasted loudly that he had read through all the volumes of the Talmud…
INSULTING GOD One night one of my workers called me and said, "Come and talk to this man. He is an unbeliever." I went over and talked to him. I said, "Are you an unbeliever?"…
GENESIS Chapter: 1. God made the world and Adam and Eve, 2. They lived in Eden and hated to leave, 3. But Adam and Eve into sin soon fell, 4. And Cain slew Abel and…
GOOD NEWS ABOUT SOMEONE In the October 7 issue of U.S News & World Report, there is a fascinating article on the "Dead Sea Scrolls." Since 1947, these scrolls have been jealously guarded by a…
DO YOU TAKE THIS EPISTLE? Most church members think an epistle is the wife of an apostle. From The Springdale Lion's Roar, February, 1991
THE MISSING BIBLE From a past edition of Our Daily Bread comes a story of a Christian woman who was unable to find her Bible for her Bible Study group in her home. She unsuccessfully…
READING TO FREEDOM The following was from Oprah Winfrey, who donated $100,000.00 to buy books for the new Harold Washington Library in Chicago. "Books were my path to personal freedom. I learned to read at…
LUTHER ON THE BIBLE "Even if I (Luther) were to lose my body and my life on account of it, I cannot depart from the true Word of God." It was the preaching of the…
WESLEY ON THE BIBLE In John Wesley's preface to the Standard Sermons he wrote: I am a spirit come from God, and returning to God: just hovering over a great gulf; till, a few moments…
A BIBLE CHALLENGE My brother Steve Hodgin teaches children's church at a church in Springdale Arkansas. A boy in his class named Timothy was an unruly bully. Steve would give a weekly award for "Quiet…
THE BIBLE'S INFLUENCE A recent poll of 223 corporate CEO's and college presidents identified the Bible as the most influential book among those surveyed. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, was the second most…
MY BIBLE DOESN'T SAY THAT! My boys were fighting again. If there hadn't been something called "sibling rivalry", Philip (age 5) and David (age 3) would have invented it. This time, however, the fighting had…
