EDUCATION & ENTERTAINMENT Our culture has changed so much that it now costs parents more to entertain their children than it cost to educate both parents.
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STRINGS REMAIN Marriages are like violins. Once the beautiful music is finished, the strings are still attached.
THE BOOK OF NUMBERS The book of Numbers is one of those strange books in the Bible. Although there is more to it, it is basically the first Census Report of the people of Israel…
AT MOTHER'S KNEE Virtues are learned at mother's knee...vices at some other joint.
GOD EMBRACED HIS CHURCH Kosuke Koyama wrote concerning the account of the waiting father in Luke 15 and the story of the church's beginning. Koyama wrote about our God who runs toward us, disrupting the…
CHURCH BREAKTHROUGH I 'm praying for a corporate breakthrough in the Church, but first I pray that God gives each of us an individual breakthrough in our lives. "Lord, we are not just coming to…
THEOLOGY PRODUCES LOVE The whole end of theology is love. It seems hard to realize that that is so, but so it is. If your theology does not make you more loving, it has not…
BEFORE MEMBERS QUIT Church members are like automobiles; they start missing before they quit.
RELIGIOUS COMMERCIALISM In his book, Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire, Jim Cymbala compares the money changers in the temple whom Jesus scourged with those in the church who have become involved in religious commercialism. The money…
CHURCH AS IT WAS INTENDED Here is a good definition of the church from the writings of Mark Buchanan, from British Columbia. He writes, "The specific challenge for me, a pastor in the evangelical tradition,…
SHINE THE LIGHT OF JESUS On the pulpit in our church there is a small brass sign which is seen only by the preacher. It reads: "Sir, we would see Jesus." It reminds me that…
THE CHRISTIAN MISSION It is extremely fortunate for the Christian Cause that it is not necessary to try and get its missionaries into the world, since that is where they already are. Christ's ambassadors are…
OLD-TIME AMERICAN RELIGION I do not know whether all the Americans have sincere faith in their religion, for who can search the human heart? But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable…
HOTHOUSE CHRISTIANS HAVE NO ROOT Most Christians in North America are "hothouse Christians" who bloom as long as they are kept in a protected and carefully controlled environment far from fear, distress, or persecution." God…
FLEXIBLE THEOLOGIES We of the churches often gather our robes away from contamination, and thank God that we are not as other men. We don't despise God's name; in fact, we call upon it constantly…
CHURCH IN THE BAHAMAS For our fifteenth wedding anniversary, my wife and I went to the Bahamas. We stayed in an expensive beach- front resort hotel. It was a wonderful time, but I was quite…
BEYOND THE SECULAR People turn to the Christian faith in the first place because they are looking for something more than the secular world has to offer; it is a disservice to give them back…
FEELING LIKE IT IS NOT OPTIONAL I rather like the possibilities hinted in a story Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick once related from his own childhood days. His father had said to his mother, upon leaving…
THE THINGS THAT MATTER Rabbi Steven Leder writes, "Today in America, a lot of people believe only in what is good for them. Why? Because in many ways the highest ideal in America is freedom,…
PREOCCUPIED CHURCH When we look at the history of the Church, at the reckless fashion in which we have squandered our strength and time in fratricidal struggles between sect and sect, in embittered bickerings over…
