Only in America
Only in America…..do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front. Only in America……do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke! Only in America……do banks leave both doors open and then chain the
Ever Wonder?
Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin? Why women can’t put on mascara with their mouths closed? Why you don’t ever see the headline “Psychic Wins Lottery”? Why “abbreviated” is such a long word? Why doctors call what they do “practice”? Why lemon juice is made with artificial flavor and dishwashing liquid
Network Television News
Conviction, Controversy and Point of View – Paul C. Simpson. Legacy. In 1968, Paul Simpson discovered that the major networks would erase the tapes of their television newscasts two weeks after their initial broadcast. There were no permanent records. Simpson determined to change this, despite network opposition and establishing the Vanderbilt Television News Archive. This
Classic Writers On Faith and Prayer (Part 1)
by Paul L. Kingwww.praymag.com, January/February 2005 George Muller (Brethren) The Autobiography of George Muler. Whitaker Books, 1984. Spiritual Secrets of George Muller, Roger Steer. Harold Shaw Publishers, 1985. J. Hudson Taylor (Methodist) Union and Communion with Christ. Bethany House Publishers. Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret, Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor. Moody Press, 1932. Charles H. Spurgeon
God, Why Are You Hiding?
When I reflect on the days when my daughter was a toddler, there is a scene that still brings a smile to my face. She could not have been more than eighteen months old, but what intuition she had already developed. My wife and I were busy doing chores around the house when it dawned
Nine Lessons We Learn From Failure
I’ve had plenty of success in my ‘career’ in ministry. Probably too much for my own good. But I’ve had a few whopping failures too, the most recent being a six-year attempt to resurrect my denomination’s Sunday schools. However, all failure is not loss. Even failures can be successful, if we learn from them. What
Who Will Be the First to Cancel Easter?
After major efforts by millions of evangelicals to make our point about the secularization of Christmas, we were faced with churches canceling their services on Christmas Day. Talk about shooting ourselves in the foot and becoming the laughing stock of the secular humanists. We have, once again, provided the ammunition for the guns aimed at
Moses: The Glory of Service (Part 2)
Moses gives us a second encouragement. God’s glory will not only sustain you, but God’s glory will also change you. Do you want to know the best way to grow as a Christian? It’s this—serve God. For seven years it was my privilege to pastor the Moody Church in Chicago, and I read extensively about
Unlocking the Bible
Helps you discover the whole Bible story…the breathtaking sweep of God’s plan as it unfolds in the Bible story. It begins in a garden and ends in a city, and all the way through it’s about Jesus Christ.www.unlockingthebible.org 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started by Warren Wiersbe and Michael Catt, to build up the church,
Following the Leader
by Brian Mavis Who doesn’t love a road trip? Adventure. Detours. Destination. Life’s ultimate road trip is following Jesus. In fact, “follow me” was His most frequent invitation, and many followed. Fisherman followed (Matt. 4:22); large crowds (Matt. 8:1); the blind (Matt. 9:27); women (Luke 23”49); sinners (Mark 2:15). But what does it mean to
The month of January is named after the Roman god Janus, who was pictured as a man with two faces, one looking backward and the other forward. New Year’s Day provides a valuable time to ponder the past while anticipating the future.
--Nelson’s Complete Book of Stories, Illustrations, & Quotes by Robert J. Morgan"While all the promises of God are true and precious, yet it is good to take them one by one and especially commit ourselves to them. If you ask God to give you a special message for the opening year, one that will be made seasonable and real in ever exigency of the unknown future, you will be surprised how faithfully He will fulfill His Word, and how fittingly the Holy Spirit will speak to you of things to come, and anticipate the real needs and exigencies of your life."
-–A. W. Tozer, January 1, 1938"Another year is dawning:
Dear Father, let it be,
In working or in waiting,
Another year with Thee;
Another year of progress,
Another year of praise,
Another year of proving
Thy presence all the days."
--Frances Ridley Havergal"Not renouncing, but repeating and ratifying all my former Covenants with God, and lamenting it, that I have not lived up more closely to them; I do in the beginning of this New Year solemnly make a fresh surrender of myself, my whole self, body, soul, and spirit, to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, my Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, covenanting and promising, not in any strength of my own, for I am very weak, but in the strength of the grace of Jesus Christ, that I will endeavour this year to stand complete in all the Will of God."
-–Matthew Henry, January 1, 1705
New Year’s
College Freshmen in 2005
The following are highlights from the mindset list of freshmen entering college in 2005. These findings from the class of 2009 were compiled by professors at Beloit College. “Cut and paste” never involved scissors. Pay-per-view television has always been an option. They ever had the fun of being thrown into the back of a station