Is Jesus the same size this year as He was last year, or has He been growing? How does one find out? One day, a 10-year-old girl admired a church nativity and its life-sized characters with her grandmother. As she studied the features of... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Babies have a strange ability to soften our hearts. During one battle in World War II, French and German soldiers had taken position on opposite sides of a farmhouse in a meadow under the cover of darkness. As a new day began, the soldiers... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
“He’s a nice person . . . until he gets angry.” Do you know anyone who matches this description? A man and woman were driving a van on Chicago’s Northwest Tollway in April 1994. Their two children were riding in the back seat. Suddenly, an... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Our church board could have made the young woman pay hundreds of dollars for the trip to family camp, or we could have simply told her to wait until next year. That would have been fair. After all, everyone else on the trip had paid. But we... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
When contending with brute strength, wisdom always triumphs. A young man at a construction site prided himself in his immense strength. He frequently challenged the older men to tests of skill and stamina, and he always managed to win. His... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
How is it that people have no problem paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for Christmas shopping, but when it comes to giving money in church, they freeze up faster than Lake Michigan in winter? As an example of this, I had someone ask... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Harry had to think fast. It was raining as he made his way to church in his sporty two-seater. When he turned onto a street three blocks away from the church, he saw three people he recognized huddling under an umbrella. The first was old... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
How bad do you have to be before you can lose your salvation? Long before Las Vegas earned the name “Sin City,” ancient Corinth had a reputation as one of the most wicked cities in the world. In the heart of the city was a temple to the... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Some people just cannot be moved. A man renowned for his stubbornness had made up his mind that he was dead. He held to this opinion in spite of the contrary reasoning of his friends, neighbors, and family. Worried, the family members had the... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
