WHEN THEY KNEW HE WAS FAMOUS John Henry Jowett (1864 - 1923) was a famous preacher in England. One Sunday while on vacation, he visited a quiet village chapel and took his seat almost unnoticed…
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DELUVIAN STATISTICS The company library of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company in New York City has one of the most complete sets of records of marine disasters outside of England. The works are so complete…
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SOWING AND REAPING A college professor, who later became a great evangelist, tells of a time he visited the famous Chicago landmark, the Pacific Garden Mission on South State Street. He said that he went…
LUKEWARM AT PEARL HARBOR The morning of December 7, 1941, found 353 Japanese airplanes swarming at Pearl Harbor. Within a couple of hours, America lost eight big battleships, six major airfields, many planes on the…
DIVINE RETRIBUTION Though the mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, With exactness grinds he all. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
GOD'S GRACE ERASER Someone has observed that our God has a big eraser.
SIGNS OF INFIDELITY Let me now give you some warning signs that a person may be straying from the straight path of morality: 1. Do your instincts tell you that something is up? 2. Has…
THE MINISTER Matt Dillon of television's "Gunsmoke" once described his job this way: "I'm the marshal -- the first man they look for and the last man they want to meet. It's a chancy job,…
PERSECUTION BY DIOCLETIAN One of the most systematic and terrible of all persecutions took place during the reign of the Roman Emperor Diocletian, from 303 to 310 A.D. In March of 303, the Emperor ordered…
SATAN'S PLAN Please let me share with you a quote taken from the Baptist Bulletin. It is entitled "If I Were The Devil." If I were the devil, the first thing I would do is…
EGOTIST TONGUES There's one good thing about egotists -- they don't talk about other people.
TOGETHER WITH MICHAEL JORDAN Chicago Bulls rookie forward Stacy King scored one point in a basketball game in which Michael Jordan scored sixty-nine points. His analysis of the game was: "I'll always remember this as…
OPPORTUNITIES WITH THORNS Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. Hugh Miller, Snow on the Wind
SALT OR HONEY OF THE WORLD We are called to be not the honey of the world but the salt of the earth. Salt stings on an open wound, but it also saves one from…
EQUAL JUDGMENTS Sometimes we are moved by passion and think it zeal. We blame small things in others, and pass over greater things in ourselves. Quickly enough we feel and weigh up what we endure…
CHURCH DISCIPLINE Matthew Henry, the great commentator, wrote concerning church discipline: "What light proud scorners may make of the censures of the church, let them know that they are confirmed in the court of heaven,…
AS STRONG AS YOUR WEAKEST No matter how good or how successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire. To put…
HAVING IT ALL AT ONCE Having it all doesn't necessarily mean having it all at once. By Stephanie Luetkehans in The Christian Science Monitor
KNOWING BUT NOT DOING Dr. Charles L. Allen, once wrote about a man who was nearly seventy years old and yet a student at Columbia University. The fact is, he had spent upwards of fifty…
AGE CHANGES THINGS Who changed everything when I wasn't looking? I've noticed lately that everything is farther away than it used to be. It's even twice as far to the corner now, and they've added…
