Writer Warren Wiersbe shares the following true story: In 1930, King George V of England was set to deliver an important live radio broadcast. But minutes before the broadcast, someone tripped over a wire in...
During my seminary years at Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, one of my professors was Dr. David Fite, a former missionary in Cuba. He and his father-in-law were placed in prison for preaching the...
I read recently an article about a group of ornithologists who spent a period of time studying a family of eagles on the edge of a canyon. They were able to observe and film an...
“The older I get the less I question and the more I trust.” (Corrie Ten Boom) We probably all have something in common as God’s children. It is this: we will go through times...
The following poem, titled Present Tense, was written by a 14 year old, Jason Lehman, who beautifully picture for us what a life of discontentment looks like. I will let it speak for itself- It...
“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to adversity.” (Charles Spurgeon) Make no mistake about it, there is no escape from difficulties in life. The Apostle Paul had thorns in his flesh and we...
President Ronald Reagan once told the story of an incident when he was a teen and needed a new pair of boots made. In those days, you couldn’t just go to a shoe store, you...
I heard a story about a man who bragged that he had cut off the tail of a man-eating lion with his pocketknife. Someone asked him why he hadn’t cut off the lion’s head. The...
Let’s think about what we talked about this past Sunday regarding temptation. Even though we will be tempted, we will not face a temptation so great that it cannot be resisted. The reason? It is...
James extols the virtue and value of perseverance when he writes: Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance....