EASTER ON MEMORIAL DAY Every day we would pass the cemetery as I drove my two preschoolers to their day care. As we passed each day, my son Tim, would remind his younger sister "Janna,…
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HIT BY A TRAIN The most sobering account of extravagant love that I know, is demonstrated by a friend of my wife, Alice Rangal. Alice grew up with my wife in Cozad, Nebraska. Her mother…
THE JESUS TRADE He was hungry that we might have the bread of Life. He was thirsty that we might have the water of life. He came to earth that we might go to heaven.…
HEAVEN COMES DOWN When you think of the blessings of God, remember one child's description of an elevator: "I got into this little room, and the upstairs came down." So it seems when we serve…
DO IT AGAIN! One time a father and his young son went on an overnight camping trip for the first time. While it was still quite dark, the father arose and started a fire. Then…
A DIVINE TRADE As someone once noted: He took what was ours as though it were His, And gave that which was His as though it were ours. What He was not, that He became,…
ALL IN CHRIST SHALL STAY! Every year our community high school drama club presents a play during April. This year it happened that the play was "The Outsiders" and the date of the performance was…
TOO CLOSE TO APPRECIATE A number of years ago, we took a family vacation to the upper peninsula of Michigan. Our oldest daughter was three years old that year, and she did not want to…
WE ALL NEED JESUS At the foot of the cross the ground is level. Anonymous
TWO VIEWS OF THE CROSS 1 CORINTHIANS "I heard two soldiers talking. I heard two angels singing As they came down the hill, Ere yet the dawn was bright, The somber hill of Calvary, And…
EVIDENCE, JURIES & THE RESURRECTION "I know pretty well what evidence is; and I tell you, such evidence as that for the resurrection has never broken down yet... no intelligent jury in the world could…
TRUE COURAGE Excerpt from Joan Chittester's book, Wisdom From The Daily, pg. 184: (speaking of people who live out of the soul - deep spirituality) Time: according to literature of the monastics, a time when…
THE SILENT CHRIST The King's Game - the basalinda, on the floor in the courtyard of the Antonia Fortress where Jesus was tried by Pilate and mocked by the Roman soldiers. The game could last…
ANOTHER RESURRECTION A judge in Yugoslavia was electrocuted when he reached up to turn on the light while standing in the bathtub. His wife found his body sprawled on the bathroom floor. He was pronounced…
THE FAULT When a ship fails to find the harbor, it is rarely the harbor's fault. -- Anonymous
CONDEMNED BY CONSCIENCE Wrong doing robs us of true happiness. No one is happier than the person whose conscience is clear. Brendan Behan, an Irish playwright... virtually drank himself to death. After his death, his…
ALL THINGS ARE NEW I want to now share with you a quote from missionary/author D. Martyn Lloyd Jones. He writes in his book, Sanctified Through the Truth: Let me put it very plainly in…
PRECIOUS FREEDOM In Los Angeles an escapee who led a crime-free life for nearly four decades found real freedom. He knew that "someday the boom was going to be lowered," but now he will sleep…
NO REAL SUPERMAN The world was shocked when Superman fell off his horse, suffering a severe accident with severe injuries to his spinal column, paralyzing him from the neck down. For a long while, he…
SHE WAS READY TO DIE At the time, 1928, in Birmingham (Alabama) Baptist Hospital, blood transfusions were seldom given. When necessary, the donor and the recipient lay side by side in the operating room, and…
