TEN WAYS TO CHASE AWAY VISITORS 1. CAMOUFLAGE. If they can't find you, they won't bother you. Don't place any newspaper or Yellow Page ads, put up any signs, or conduct visible programs. Don't visit…
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CHURCH PURPOSE & PROGRAMS We are to be the church against the world, for the world, to borrow a phrase from the Hartford Declaration. We need more emphasis on BEING as opposed to doing. One…
ARGUMENT OF CHRISTIANS The best argument for Christianity is Christians; their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians--when they are sombre and joyless, when they are self-righteous and…
REPULSIVE MISSION Our ministry is to the dead... But death is repulsive. It is ugly... So it is with the spiritually dead. Their behavior is often ugly and embarrassing to us. We feel offended by…
A VIEW ON PREDESTINATION We are the precious chosen few: Let all the rest be damned. There's only room for one or two: We can't have heaven crammed. Unknown
MISSION FIELD FOUND Once you have found someone who does not know Jesus Christ, you have found a mission field.
GOD GIVES HIS BEST "God gives the very best to those who leave the choice to Him." J. Hudson Taylor, missionary to China, founder of China Inland Mission
IMPACT OUR GENERATION "Let us be satisfied with nothing less than leaving the deepest mark on our generation." John R. Mott
GOD DOES THE HARD STUFF Rusty Stephens, a Navigators director in Virginia Beach, Virginia, tells this story: As I feverishly pushed the lawn mower around our yard, I wondered if I'd finish before dinner. Mikey,…
NORIEGA'S NEW GENERAL Evangelist Luis Palau visited the famous General Noriega in his Florida jail cell. Noriega was captured during the Bush administration. Noriega said that when in power in Panama, three other generals reported…
FIRST IMPRESSIONS CAN DISTORT Give someone five seconds to estimate the answer to the following math problem: 8 x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = Give someone…
THE CALL OF GOLD C. T. Studd, the great British cricketeer, led the Cambridge Seven a century ago and startled the whole English world. He also gave away a fortune and preached in China, India,…
COLSON ON CULTURE During the greatest resurgence of evangelicalism in this century, belief in the Bible has declined and religious influence has been so thoroughly scrubbed from public life that any honest observer would have…
INTROVERTED INFLUENCE Sociologists tell us that even the most introverted individual will influence ten thousand other people during his or her lifetime! -- John Maxwell
EVANGELISM AND THE DEVIL The last thing the Devil wants you to do is to win a soul to Christ. If you don't believe it, try it. The Devil will let you go to prayer…
FIRST BABY OR HUSBAND The phone rang on the maternity ward, and a very excited voice came through: "This is Harold Smith, and I'm bringing my wife in -- she's about to have a baby!"…
CHANDELIERS OR LIGHTS A pastor met with his board of trustees and requested they approve the purchase of a chandelier for the church sanctuary. The next month when the minutes were read there was no…
THAT LITTLE PRAYER It was a great big card written in a small child's printing -- you know, that first-grade block printing. On the front of the card was a little boy who had on…
NO TIME FOR TELEVISION In 1939, when a prototype television was demonstrated at the World's Fair, a reviewer from The New York Times was not impressed. "The problem with television," he wrote, "is that people…
BAD TIME FOR A JEW As a man was walking the streets of Belfast at night, he was grabbed from behind and a knife was forced to his throat. "Are you a Catholic or a…
