When we come to faith in Jesus Christ, we receive more than salvation. We also receive an inheritance from God. A man died who was extremely wealthy. His will was full of art pieces—very expensive art pieces. This man had a son who had died before him, a son whom he loved, and this son…
Trying to do something big is intimidating. A lot of people fail before they begin because they think the task is too big for them. But what if we just focused on one small thing at a time that is needed to accomplish the big thing? Eric Sevareid, a well-known war-time correspondent and author, told Reader’s…
When God speaks, do you recognize his voice? My friend Roy tells a fascinating story about a trip to Palestine some years back. One afternoon, he stood on a ridge overlooking a long, narrow gorge. Below him, the gorge opened out into rolling grass- covered pasture lands. A single trail meandered down the length of…
How many Christians have missed a chance for evangelism because they were ashamed of talking about Jesus? Too often we are guilty of “being ashamed of the gospel of Christ.” We’re embarrassed about bearing witness for fear that we might be violating the rules of social propriety. Our failure to talk about Jesus cheats some of…
Without a purpose for your life or ministry, you will have a lot of activity with little progress. Nestled in the suburbs of San Jose, California, is an interesting tourist attraction: an estate built by the heir of the Winchester rifle fortune. In 1884, a wealthy widow named Sarah L. Winchester began a thirty-eight-year construction project guided…
What you truly believe is shown more through your actions than your words. In college I was asked to prepare a lesson to teach to my speech class. We were graded on our creativity and ability to drive home a point in a memorable way. The title of my talk was, “The Law of the…
Does our busyness negatively impact our children? In the “Ask the Children” survey, researcher Ellen Galinsky interviewed more than a thousand children in grades three through twelve and asked parents to guess how kids would respond. One key question asked the kids what one thing they would change about the way their parents’ work was…
If we don’t make a habit of tithing when we are poor, would we really tithe if we were rich? In his book The Little Red Book of Wisdom, author Mark DeMoss tells a story about John D. Rockefeller. The Standard Oil founder, who died in 1937, was one of the world’s richest business barons….
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