Paul W. Powell Legacy Library

This is a day of vast scientific advances. Science has created "test tube" babies and we can now transplant almost all bodily organs. In a day of such spectacular achievements many wonder if science has outmoded religion. The answer is no! It never has and it never will. The reason why is because they deal with two different ways of knowing and two different fields of...

The fear of death is one of the greatest fears we face. Saul Bellow, the famous novelist said, “The real problem is the problem of death. If people don’t know how to come to terms with it, souls have no preparation. Then the only thing is to be eternally young and in pursuit of pleasure and further sexual and hedonistic horizons.” English essayi...

Will we know each other in heaven? Most assuredly! The apostle Paul said concerning heaven, “For now we see through the glass darkly; but then face to face: but now I know in part; but then shall we know even as also we are known” (1 Corinthians 13:12). In heaven our knowledge shall be vastly superior to our knowledge here upon this earth. Do we know each...

A defendant came forward in the middle of his trial to plead guilty. “Why didn’t you plead guilty at first and save us all a lot of time?” asked the judge. “I thought I was innocent,” replied the defendant, “but that was before I heard the evidence against me.” If any one of us could hear all of God’s evidence against u...

There are only two real differences in men—either the degree of their sin or the class of their sin. Charlotte Reese, who served six years on the U.S. Board of Parole, said, “I believe from the bottom of my heart there is nothing any of us might not do if certain circumstances were different. The breaking point for each of us is different. We differ from...

On New Year’s Day in 1929 California was playing Georgia Tech in the Rose Bowl. And Georgia Tech was marching for a touchdown when the ball was fumbled. A California player named Roy Riegels picked it up and he lost his sense of direction. And instead of running toward his opponent’s goal line he turned and started running toward his own goal line and he r...

I was in Mineola visiting with Marc about a book we are working on together. And he was showing me his computer. And he was putting something on the screen and he made a mistake and he pushed a button and it erased all of it. And he said to me, “That’s the undo button.” And I looked over and sure enough right there on the button was “undo.&rdqu...

We are like the lady who went to a photographer to have her picture made. When she viewed the proofs she expressed her displeasure to the photographer saying, “These pictures don’t do me justice.” The photographer replied, “Lady, you don’t need justice, you need mercy.” That’s the way it is with all of us. None of us wants to...

Two young girls were standing on the deck of a ship early one morning. The older said to the younger, “Isn’t it a beautiful day? And look at the horizon, how beautiful it is.” The younger girl looked at her with a bit of puzzlement on her face and asked, “What is a horizon?” The older girl pointed off into the distance and said, “...