Paul W. Powell Legacy Library

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...

O. Henry, the famous short-story writer, was dying. His nurse surmised that death was coming very soon, and so as was the custom in that day, she reached up to pull the shades down and leave the room dark. O. Henry opened his eyes as if he were aware of what was going on and he said to her, “Push up the shades. I don’t want to go home in the dark.”&n...

O. Henry, the famous short story writer, was dying. The nurse thought the end had come and began lowering the shades of the windows. Opening his eyes and seeming to understand what was happening, he said, “Let up the shades! I don’t want to go home in the dark!” Since Jesus came, nobody needs to go home in the dark. The Scriptures declare that Jesus...

There is a magnetism to the cross of Jesus Christ that cannot be explained apart from God. Jesus once said, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth [on a cross], will draw all men unto me” (John 12:32). What is it that gives the cross such a universal and irresistible appeal? 1. It is the magnetism of love. In the cross of Christ we see the love of God a...

Death is real. People die and their bodies are buried in the ground. That much we see. As Christians we believe that there is going to be a resurrection of the body at the end of time (John 11:24). The question then is this: “What happens to a person between death and the resurrection?” The Bible speaks clearly concerning this matter. It tells us that at d...

Death is a fact of life. As soon as we begin to live we are old enough to die. We are all engaged to marry death, so as we grow older and the ceremony approaches we need to become better prepared for it. So what’s it like to die? We all want to know. There are four words used in the Bible to describe death: sleep, depart, dissolve, and decease. 1. Sle...

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...

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...

1 And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. 2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. 3 And they caught...