Paul W. Powell Legacy Library

Dr. Bill Hinson, the chaplain at Baylor University, told of a salesman friend of his who was driving through the back roads of Missouri some time ago when he came upon a little country gas station/grocery store. It had a gravel driveway and just one gas pump in the front. While the attendant filled his car, he turned and walked into the little grocery store. The store...

Bob Lilly, the Hall of Fame defensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys, in a testimony to our church several years ago said, “On the first day of training camp, Coach Tom Landry said to the squad, ‘My priorities are God, family, and the Dallas Cowboys, and they are in that order.’” Like it is for most of you, my family is near the top of my priori...

Roger Babson, who was for many years America’s foremost statistical expert and adviser on financial affairs, saw parallels between his church and the exchange on Wall Street. He said, "In Trinity Church I can exchange my fears for courage, my worries for faith, my nervousness for patience, and my selfishness for justice, kindness, and the things that really coun...

In 1986 Desmond Tutu, an anti-apartheid and social rights activist and Anglican bishop, recounted the story of the whites coming to South Africa. “When they came,” the bishop said, “the blacks had the land and the whites had the Bible.” Then, he said, the whites wanted to teach the blacks to pray. “So we bowed our heads and closed our eye...

When Robert Burns on his deathbed spoke to his beloved nephew, he patted his well-worn Bible and said, “Read the Book and be a good man and when you come to the place where I am now, you will know that that’s all that’s important.” The Bible is the Magna Carta of human rights. It is the sailor’s compass. It is the shepherd’s staff....

Fast Lane Magazine once conducted a poll among 400 men between the ages of 18 and 34. Their question was, “Other than yourself, what person would you like most to be like?” In response to the question, number one on the list of those polled was Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. Number two was President Ronald Regan. Number three was Clint Eastwood, and tie...

Fulton Sheen, the late Roman Catholic bishop, once proposed that since America had a Statue of Liberty on the East Coast, the country should establish a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast. It was said that during the years of his presidency Harry Truman kept on his desk a sign that stated, “The buck stops here.” It consistently reminded him that h...

Milton Cunningham tells that when he was in Africa, he was seated at a banquet table with the Litunga of Barotseland and members of his family. The Litunga was one of the paramount royal chiefs of Africa. His kingdom was in the western providence of Zambia. Milton says, ”I was seated next to a young African lady about 20 years old who was a member of the Litunga...

Buckner Fanning, pastor of the Trinity Baptist Church, San Antonio, said that early in his ministry that he was preaching a revival meeting at one of the churches in Bogalusa, Louisiana. In the last service of that revival they asked a young man who had not been a Christian for a long time to give his testimony. As he stepped out on the platform Buckner said it was as...