The flipping of the calendar does not really change anything. If you find happiness this year, it will be because of what you put into your life. What are the essentials to a happy life and a happy New Year?
1. A self to live with. Is life worth living? Yes, if a person can find a self to live with. Unless you like yourself, there is little chance of your liking life. E...
Thoughts of a new beginning appeal to every one of us. Everyone can begin again at the foot of the cross of Christ, and any person wanting to begin life anew must come to him in repentance and in faith. Paul expressed it this way: “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Realistically, there can...
It has always been true that our greatest saints and our greatest sinners are made of the same material. The difference in the best and worst of people is not in their instincts and impulses but rather in the goals and ends to which these are directed. The desire to get ahead, to excel, to have more and be more than others is a driving force.
We call this desire ambition.
Ambiti...
With the New Year coming up, most everybody is getting in on the act of making a few New Year’s resolutions of their own. Here are some of my own sideline suggestions for New Year’s resolutions. Be it resolved:
To Get More Out of Church:
“One of these days you will read in the newspaper that D. L. Moody is dead. Don’t you believe it. I will be more alive then than I have ever been before.” - D.L. Moody
It is the conviction of every Christian that life does not end at the cemetery. There is an eternal spirit in us that cannot be destroyed by the death of the body. Death is not the end of life; it is really the beginning...
One of the secrets of the great life of the apostle Paul was that he learned how to forget. He did not spend his time looking at his successes or his failures. Rather, he kept focusing on the future and pressing toward the mark of Christian maturity (Philippians 3:13).
This is one of the secrets of any great life.
It was the brilliant mind of Aldous Huxley that came forward with...
The Bible warns us against presuming on tomorrow when it says “Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knoweth not what a day may bring forth” (Proverbs 27:1). We are not forbidden to plan for or to think about tomorrow, but we are told not to presume upon it. Instead we are told we should live each day with the consciousness that tomorrow may not be ours. It is so easy, in the hustle and bustl...
In addition to a balking media, Christmas has long been under attack among Protestants as it has not been since the Puritans outlawed its observance in both England and America in the 17th century. Religious radicals as well as a growing number of responsible church leaders have advocated dropping Christmas from the Christian calendar.
One of the most frequently made charges against Chr...
Former Prime Minister Nehru of India shocked many people when he said that Russia and the United States possess essentially the same kind of culture. He said the first concern of both is the acquisition of things and that spiritual values are secondary.
No greater evil can befall any nation than that.
Jesus reminded us that things are temporal. They are at the mercy of moths, ru...