Coke or Pepsi?

It’s the subject of a new book for teens, full of questions to help teenagers get to know each other. www.coke-or-pepsi.com 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started by Warren Wiersbe and Michael Catt, to build up the church, seek revival, and encourage pastors. […]

God Shall Provide

by Vance Havner Can God furnish a table in the wilderness (Ps. 78:19)? From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness (Mark 8:4)? 1. When our Lord fed the multitude there was a bread problem. There was a budget proposed. Philip “made an estimate” that two hundred pennyworth of bread would not […]

"O Jesus! Meek and humble of heart, hear me. From the desire of being esteemed, deliver me, Jesus. From the desire of being loved, deliver me, Jesus. From the desire of being extolled...from the desire of being honored...from the desire of being praised...from the desire of being preferred to others...from the desire of being consulted...from the desire of being approved...from the fear of being humiliated...from the fear of being despised...from the fear of suffering rebukes...from the fear of being calumniated...from the fear of being forgotten...from the fear of being ridiculed....from the fear of being wronged...from the fear of being suspected...."

- from Litany of Humility

Desire and Fear

“The concern, of course, is that a church who weds the spirit of this age will find itself a widow in the next.” - W. R. Inge, former Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London

Church

"Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me;Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me;Christ to right of me, Christ to left of me;Christ in my lying, Christ in my sitting, Christ in my rising;Christ in the heart of all who think of me,Christ on the tongue of all who speak of me,Christ in the eye of all who see me,Christ in the ear of all who hear me." - Saint Patrick

Christian Living

Interesting Facts You Need to Know

In the 1400’s a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have “the rule of thumb.” Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled “Gentlemen Only…Ladies Forbidden,” and thus the word GOLF […]

An Unexpected Journey

– Mike Blaylock After being diagnosed with colon cancer in 2005 and given little hope for survival, Mike Blaylock walked out of the hospital a year later cancer-free. This is his miraculous story of faith in God and God’s faithfulness. Mike is the vice president for campus affairs at the University of Mobile in Mobile, Alabama, […]

Jesus Hates Clutter

At the beginning of the New Year, there are plenty of tips in magazines to help you with your resolutions. Weight loss tips abound, but it now seems that there is a lot of information on helping you to organize your workspace and get rid of clutter in your life. True anti-clutter freaks pride themselves […]

Like a Child

Earlier this week, I was sitting in the school parking lot waiting to pick up my daughter, when my attention was captured by a group of kindergarten children playing. The sounds of laughter and excitement filled the air while they ran and played. As I watched this scene unfold, my mind raced back in time […]

Congratulations to You!

If you are reading this congratulations! You have been named Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.” That’s right—they named you, the ordinary person who uses the Internet to read and write and watch as the person who most influenced the year’s events. And, if you’ve commented on past articles you should appear even closer to […]

It’s Sad We Have to Talk About This (Part 1)

George Aiken wrote, “If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.” I grew up in the deep south. When I was growing up, racism and prejudice seem to have been the accepted norm. I […]

Psalm 9

Psalm 9:7-12: Safest Protection in the World In verses 7-12 we are talking about one great truth–the safest and strongest protection you have is in the name of the Lord. “And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; for You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You” (v. 10). As […]