Former advice columnist Dear Abby once said: “If my mail rings true there are almost as many marriages on the rocks as there are rocks.” This is tragic! Marriage is supposed to bring joy, completeness, and fulfillment to life. However, I don’t know of anything that starts with such tremendous hopes and fails so regularly as marriage.
What does it take to build a good marriage? According...
Does going to church matter? Let’s ask Henry Brinton, former pastor of Fairfax Presbyterian Church in Virginia. He once wrote of a U.S. president’s church attendance, “Politically, church attendance is a sign of integrity. If the president says he’s a Christian, then going to church shows that he doesn’t just talk the talk, he walks the walk. The best way for [any president] to show that he is...
One of my favorite sayings is, “God doesn’t want any homeless children.” I mean by that, if you’re a Christian you need to have a church home. If you’re going to be a part of God’s family in heaven you need to be a part of a church family on earth.
"But," you say, “there are too many hypocrites in the church.” You’re right. There are too many, but one more won’t make any difference. So...
D.L. Moody, one of America’s greatest evangelists, weighed a hefty 280 pounds. He once made a visit to Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the great preacher from London, England. When Spurgeon came to the door he had a cigar in his hand. Moody was taken aback and reportedly said to him, “How can a man of God like you smoke like that?”
Then Spurgeon poked him right in the stomach and said, “How c...
Bishop John Reed told about two sailors who arrived by boat in England. Their first night ashore, they went into a bar and drank themselves silly. At the end of the evening they walked out of the bar unsteady on their feet. Looking into the dense London fog, they were unable to find their way back to their ship.
Then they saw a gentleman coming into the bar. Unknown to them, he was a hi...
In the play, “The Fool,” by Channing Pollack, there is a powerful scene. A rich woman speaks of her furs as “a substitute for my husband’s time and love and companionship.”
The husband’s father is listening to this and reacts with frustration, saying, “I don’t know what you women want. A man works his heart and soul out to give you things and still you aren’t satisfied.”
The wif...
God’s opinion of the atheist is so clear that even the atheist can understand it. He says, “The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.” (Psalm 14:1) Why does God, in all the Bible, make this one statement on atheism and thereafter dismiss the subject? It’s because the foolishness of atheism is so self-evident that no other comment is necessary.
First, the atheist’s life pr...
Jesus called James and John “The Sons of Thunder.” That’s because they had a short fuse. They would cloud up and rain all over you in a New York minute. When a Samaritan village did not show them proper hospitality they wanted to call down fire from heaven and destroy the entire population!
That’s a normal reaction. When people are rude to us, reject us, bad mouth us, cut us off in traf...
A friend of mine was baptized into a church as an infant but never came to personal faith in Christ. While in college he heard people talk about their personal conversion experience, and he realized he had never experienced that. So, he went with one of his friends to a revival service one night.
The old minister who preached was uneducated. He had been called to preach while plowing a...