I read somewhere of a story about a group of teenagers who broke into the department store one night. They didn’t steal or destroy anything. They just had a wonderful time switching price tags. The next morning customers were puzzled and delighted to find fur coats selling for $5. Lotion was priced at $100. A silver service set was marked at $1.75 and a pair of sox was $390. There were umbrella...
Traditionally in the United States a quarter of all personal spending takes place during the Christmas shopping season. While many look with delight on this as an indication of a booming economy, there is another Christmas "tradition" that reflects our sagging morality: shoplifting generally rises about 5 to 10 percent during the holiday season. Retail authorities estimate that in the bustle of...
Literary genius George Bernard Shaw stated that life’s ultimate statistic is the same for all people: one out of one dies. Death is no respecter of persons. Sooner or later death will blow its chilly breath into the face of every one of us.
The Bible warns us that “It is appointed unto men once to die, after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). You may prolong life and delay death, but yo...
In a few short years, we have gained a material abundance in America that surpasses anyone in history, yet we have become among the most lawless and violent nations among free people. Our cities are torn by riots and violence. Thousands are killed, thousands more injured, and property losses approach billions of dollars. Leaders around the world have long been calling us the “sick man of the wo...
We live in a world of words. What we call “a cold war” is principally a war of words. There are famous words about conquering more by the pen than by the sword. Words can wreck, words can revive, words can ruin, and words can restore.
The right word at the right time can be very valuable. The wrong word at the wrong time can be very costly. The Bible says, “A word fitly spoken is like a...
William James, the famous American educator, said, “No man has graduated from the school of life until he has been well tempted.” Temptation is one of the common denominators of every life, so let's look at it more closely.
What is temptation? It is an enticement to do evil. Evangelist Billy Sunday said, “Temptation is the devil peeking through the keyhole. Yielding is...
God is not dead, neither is he gone. In a time when some so-called theologians are saying God is dead, we need to declare the glorious truth with the same enthusiasm of those early disciples who discovered the empty tomb of Jesus on the first Easter morning: GOD IS NOT DEAD.
A god subject to the final power of death is no god. They tell the story in England of the way...
In this day of skepticism and doubt many have lost faith in spiritual things. They wonder things like, “Can there be any certainty of the resurrection?” and “How can we be sure that Jesus was raised from the dead?”
In 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 the Apostle Paul presents three evidences for the reality of the resurrection.
1. The testimony of the scriptures. The resu...
American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “The name of Jesus is not so much written into history as it is plowed into it.” Sooner or later we must all face the ultimate question of what we will do with him.
There are at least four alternatives:
1. You may be indifferent to him. Pilate sought to wash his hands of Jesus. He thought he could decide not to dec...