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 […]
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. […]
Move Forward!
Years ago when Starla and I were Pastoring in Houston, I would often go downtown on Saturday and invite the homeless to ride our bus on Sunday to church. I remember talking to man whose street name was “Redman.” I asked him to ride the bus to church, he […]
Be Free!
A little boy visiting his grandparents was given his first slingshot. He practiced in the woods, but he could never hit his target. As he came back to Grandma’s backyard, he spied her pet duck. On an impulse he took aim and let fly. The stone hit, and the duck […]
God is in Control!
I want you to remember this today- God is in control. Your dreams, plans, purpose and destiny are in God’s hands. God is in control. Maybe you have had one set-back after another. Maybe you have had one failure after another. Maybe you have had one letdown after another. I’m […]
Second Chances!
My son Kolt was fifteen years old and learning how to drive. While practicing driving in my car, he unfortunately was distracted and ran into the rear end of a heavy duty bumper on a Ford pick-up truck. The truck won that war. There was absolutely no damage to the […]
Keep the faith!
Ravi Zacharias tells the amazing story of a young Christian in Vietnam. He writes, “I was ministering in Vietnam in 1971, and one of my interpreters was Hien Pham, an energetic young Christian. He had worked as a translator with the American forces, and was of immense help both to […]