Little Things Make a Big Difference! It is ordinarily not the “big” things that start destroying a marriage. It is the consistent oversight of the “little things,” which then become big things. Why not take a proactive approach to your marriage each day? Here’s what we mean. Do little things […]
Hope Changes Everything!
From Parade magazine comes the story of self-made millionaire Eugene Land, who greatly changed the lives of a sixth-grade class in East Harlem. Mr. Lang had been asked to speak to a class of 59 sixth-graders. What could he say to inspire these students, most of whom would drop out […]
Heaven is for Real!
I recently read where a company called, “Afterlife Telegrams” offers to deliver messages to the dead for a price of $10 a word (with a five-word minimum) by way of terminally ill patients who promise to deliver the messages upon “passing into the afterlife.” In the fine print of the […]
Accept Instruction!
We all have the responsibility to make choices in life. It amazes me how two very similar individuals can make two completely different life choices. Cain and Abel were both sons of Adam. Abel chose God and Cain chose murder. Abraham and Lot were family and both pilgrims in Canaan. […]
Turn-around!
Many people are taught that good deeds can make right, a lifetime of wickedness. So people do acts of kindness, and give money and volunteer for organizations, thinking that if they do something good for someone else that it will make up for the past sins. Some think God is […]
Help me, God!
I was 14 years old. My family was vacationing in Athens, Greece. We were traveling in the very busy city by bus. On this particular day I remember hearing my parents say, as we stood at the bus stop, that we were looking for bus number 2. That’s all I […]
Deliver us from evil!
Charles Spurgeon told an amusing story about a man named George Wishart, the first Episcopal bishop of Edinburgh, who during the 1600s was sentenced to death by hanging. He came to the day of his execution hoping for a pardon that had not yet arrived. It was a custom in […]
Barbed-wire, briars and fire ants!
I was out at the ranch mending some fences this weekend. Several things came to my mind as I was working with barbed-wire, near briars and fire-ants. That is a painful combination. It seemed that every few moments I was either getting stuck by the barbed-wire, or the vines of […]
Are You Listening?
I recently read about the results of a study that reported how noise affects human behavior. In one experiment carried out by psychologists, a student leaving a library intentionally dropped an armload of books. In 50% of the cases, a passerby stopped to help the student pick up the books. […]
God loves you!
God made you with a divine purpose. In fact, everything that is created, is created with a purpose in mind. You are no exception. Psalm 139:13-14 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; […]