Get Off Your High Horse
“Sailbad the Sinner” is the name of an old sailboat owned by Baptist Minister, Jess Moody. One day, Moody and his son boarded the little sloop at a Florida Everglades […]
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Idolatry
Closer Than Home
As you read the Gospels and try to understand what they are saying to your life, certain ironies are bound to enter your thoughts. For example, a surface reading of
God Rules Everything
Here is a God who can control the sunlight easier than turning a 60-watt electric bulb on and off. Here is God who can move the stars around like billiard
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The Search Ends Here
After the Ten Commandments had been given, the Lord said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites this: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven. Do
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The Time Has Come
The time is early December. A family of four drives to a suburban mall to do some Christmas shopping. They decide to shop separately so that the presents they purchase
The Divine Storyteller
In an “Esquire” magazine article, TV journalist Ted Koppel made some negative comments about modern day heroes: “We are creating a lot of false idols in this society,” he said.
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From Now On
A fire-and brimstone preacher was delivering his usual doomsday sermon about the end of the world. “Reform!” he boomed. “Reform your lives because sooner or later the signs of the
The Cause Of All Our Trouble
In their twenty-five years of marriage, hardly a night went by when the wife didn’t awaken her husband because she thought she heard an intruder in the house. The husband
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For Once, Why Don’t We?
There was a flurry of excitement in the household of a family whose oldest child was preparing to leave for her freshman year at the State University in Fredonia, New
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That’s The Spirit!
On a crowded elevator in New York City, two women passengers were overheard discussing the elevator’s slow progress … First Woman: “Why is this elevator stopping on every floor?” Second
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