Paul W. Powell Legacy Library

A foreigner, when asked his impression of American people, said, “They impress me as being worried.” Anxiety is part of almost every life. In fact our age has been called “the age of anxiety.” In the midst of the tensions of today's times many are wondering, “How can I overcome worry?” One of the greatest helps is to remember that...

Once someone was talking to a great scholar about a younger man. He said, “So and So tells me that he was one of our students." The teacher answered devastatingly, “He may have attended my lectures, but he was not one of my students.” There is a world of difference between attending lectures and being a student. The word disciple means a learne...

There are millions who are wondering if there is not more to life than they have found. They are convinced that if there is not more, life is one great disappointment. In their search for satisfaction, millions are turning to narcotics, alcohol, pleasure, and sex. But the material things of this world do not satisfy. They are like drinking salt water. They cannot...

One of the greatest blessings of life is a Christian home. It is a source of strength and help for all of life. An essential ingredient in a Christian home is a family altar. You cannot have a Christian home in the fullest sense of the word without it. What is a family altar? It is not a piece of furniture or a place. It is an event. It is a time when the family join...

"Men are like steel; they are of little use when they lose their temper," said actor Chuck Norris. The Bible agrees. In Proverbs 16:32 the Lord says, “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.” Everyone is tempted at times to fly into a rage of anger. There are occasions when we are all o...

Some things are harder to repair than to build originally. One of these is a broken friendship. The Bible says, “A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle” (Proverbs 18:19). Nothing is more valuable than our friends. Asked the secret of his life, a great man said, “I had a friend.&...

Author and former Congressman Bruce Barton (1886-1967) famously said, “Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think that there are no little things.” If ever a generation ought to be aware of this, it ought to be ours. The problems of the world, everyone keeps saying, are so massive as to be overwhe...

A guest star on a TV show once said, “Two things I’ve had in life, and both ample—good advice and bad example.” This has been the experience of most people. Most of us are careless or just too thoughtless about our influence. Every person’s life is a profession of faith. Every person’s conduct is an unspoken sermon that he is forev...

There is planted in every person a sense of right and wrong and he is often called on to choose between these two. Today it is increasingly more difficult to make a distinction between them because our standards are sometimes muddled.  In the face of moral decisions, some people say, “I do as I want.” They reject all standards of morality and live on...