Name Your Price
According to the Bloomberg News Service, the price tag for every man, woman, and child living in the U.S. is $42,105 based on what “the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have spent or lent or committed” in new pledges this year. That’s a total of $12.8 trillion–nearly the value of everything the U.S. produced
Lazy Days of Summer
(as seen in WORLD Magazine, July 4, 2009) Americans may work hardest but they take summer school vacation more seriously than most, according to The Economist, the Brit-based newsweekly. School Year on Average:South Korea – 220 daysEast Asia – 200+ daysGermany – 200 daysEurope Average – 195 daysU. S. – 180 days Over the course
Can We Talk?
Written by: Janie B. Cheaney It’s beautiful, it’s essential, it’s earthy, delicious, funny, filthy. It’s enormously powerful, yet easily crushed. It can be done in less than a minute, yet consumes lifetimes. It can drive one narcissistically inward or fling one gloriously out. It’s generation and completion, also shame and bondage. It starts with s
The Folly of Prayer
Practicing the Presence and Absence of God – Matt Woodley. IVP Books. “Prayer doesn’t always operate according to our standards of “wisdom.” Nor does it conform to our expectations or formulas. Sometimes our prayer life leaves us bathed in God’s warmth and safety. At other times we feel abandoned by a mysterious and elusive God.
Money and Marriage God’s Way
– Howard Dayton. Moody Publishers. “Some people adopt an ‘It’ll all work out somehow’ attitude toward marriage and finances. But sadly, it often doesn’t work out. Financial woes and marriage troubles can rob couples of precious opportunities to savor the blessings of companionship, family, and peace that God intendes for His people. [This book] will
Just Do Something
– Kevin DeYoung. Moody Publishers. “Hyper-spiritual approaches to finding God’s will just don’t work. It’s time to try something new: give up. Pastor and author Kevin DeYoung counsels Christians to settle down, make choices, and do the hard work of seeing those choices through. Too often, he writes, God’s people jump from church to church,
The Essential Presence
Written by: Bill Elliff And He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” And he said to Him, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. For how shall it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and
WA Criswell
www.wacriswell.com This site provides a collection of over two thousand sermons Dr. W. A. Criswell preached during his fifty-five years of ministry at the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, organized by date, verse, category, topic, and word. The messages are available through streaming audio and video, transcripts, and sermon outlines. There are several featured
Godly Wisdom for Financial Freedom
(This appeared as part of the “Godly Wisdom for a New Millennium Series”.) by Michael Catt Proverbs 21:20 God is interested in how you spend the hours of your life and where you will spend eternity. I. Why Should I Honor the Lord with My Money?“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
"The Christian minister, as someone has pointed out, is a descendant not of the Greek orator but of the Hebrew prophet. The differences between the orator and the prophet are many and radical, the chief being that the orator speaks for himself while the prophet speaks for God. The orator originates his message and is responsible to himself for its content. The prophet originates nothing but delivers the message he has received from God who alone is responsible for it, the prophet being responsible to God for its delivery only. The prophet must hear the message clearly and deliver it faithfully, and that is indeed a grave responsibility; but it is to God alone, not to men."
"Lord, I'm reminded this morning of the thought from the late seminary chaplain Richard Seume: 'When your people sit in front of you on Sunday morning, they're not interested in hearing another man tell them how to live their lives; they've come to hear a word from God.' May that be my prophetic perspective this week. Amen." - A. W. Tozer
Preaching
When J. Wilbur Chapman was called as pastor of the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia in January of 1890, a layman approached him and said, "You are not a very strong preacher, but a few of us have decided to gather and pray every Sunday morning for you." That prayer meeting grew to over 1,000 before it was all over. Chapman conducted his own revival soon after taking the pastorate, and 400 new members were added to the church, most of them by profession of faith. The Sunday School attendance eventually reached 12,000. At the time, Bethany was the largest Presbyterian church in America.
- source Gerald Harris, The Christian Index, Volume 185, Number 23
Preaching
School, 1957 v. 2009
Scenario 1: Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck’s gun rack.1957 – Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.2008 – School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his