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Rev. W. O. Taylor, 91, was the oldest man attending the Southern Baptist Convention a few years ago. At the annual free breakfast for retirees, Brother Taylor rose and recited his own alliterative version of the parable of the prodigal son, which he entitled "The Final Fixing of the Foolish Fugitive"

Reasons to Assemble Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:25 Recommended Reading Acts2:42-47 It is said that one Sunday, King Louis XIV of France arrived at his chapel for…

3/10/2003 An Excellent point about judging people on their appearance. Too bad for >Harvard. > > >A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun >threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly >without an appointment into the Harvard University President's…

There is the story of a preacher who got up one Sunday and announced to his congregation: I have good news and bad news. The good news is, we have enough money to pay for our new building program. The bad news is, it's still in your pockets. ------------------------------------------------- While driving…

God recently allowed me to see Jesus through the eyes of someone seeing Him for the first time. Having the advantage of knowing how the story ends, we can easily forget the cost of our redemption and the love of our Savior.

This poem was given to me, quoted to me actually while serving an interim at the Pritchard Memorial Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC. This dear elderly lady was a resident of a local nursing home during that time (c. 1978-1979). The pastor of the church and I visited with her and when she learned that I was preparing for a career in ministry, but attended a Methodist College (Wofford, Spartanburg, SC) she was greatly concerned that I do not leave the Baptist denomination to become a Methodist

> 1. "To the world you might be one person, but to one person > you might be the world." > 2. "Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore > than going to MacDonald's makes you a hamburger." > 3. "Real friends are those who, when you feel you've made > a fool of yourself, don't feel you've…

Isn't it amazing how God works in our lives! On a Saturday night several weeks ago, this pastor was working late, and decided to call his wife before he left for home. It was about 10:00 PM, but his wife didn't answer the phone. The pastor let it ring many times. He thought it was odd that she didn't…

[HUMOR] You could have heard a pin drop When in England , at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by George Bush. He answered by saying, 'Over the years, the United States has sent many of its…

Queen Elizabeth told a notable merchant in the City of London to go to the Continent on royal business. “Please your majesty,” said he, “who will attend to my business while I am away?” The queen replied, “If you will go abroad and see to my business, I will see to your business.” I will be bound to…

Very moving story

There is a father, and he thinks that to go to his work—such common work as his—cannot be especially pleasing in God’s sight. He means to serve God, and so he stops at home. He is upstairs in prayer when the factory bell is ringing and he ought to be there. He hears that there is a conference in the…

When I was visiting one of our sick friends he uttered a sentence that stuck to me. He said, “I have had some education for heaven in attending the Metropolitan Tabernacle.” “How is that?” “Because I have been used to worship with a great company of godly people, used to join in the songs of great multitudes,…

A person asked me one day, “Is not such-and-such a person a Baptist?” I replied, “I do not know him.” He said, “He is a fellow who says a very long grace before his dinner, and he goes to such-and-such a chapel.” “Well,” I answered, “If he goes there, he certainly attends a Baptist chapel.” Then he said,…

There are some who make a bad use of what ought to be a great blessing—namely, the printing press, and the printed sermon—by staying at home to read a sermon because, they say, it is better than going out to hear one. It is a bad example for a professing Christian to absent himself from the assembly…

I once saw a colonel shooting at a target. There were two targets near each other, and he hit the center of one of them. The attendant called out, “Which target was that gentleman shooting at?” “The one on the left,” was the answer. “I thought so,” said the man, “for he hit the one on the right.” There…

There was a great king who once employed a merchant in his service as an ambassador to foreign courts. Now the merchant, before he went away, said to the king, “My own business requires all my care, and though I am always willing to be your majesty’s servant, yet if I attend to your business as I ought,…

A simple Welsh friend believed that our Lord must have been a Welshman, “Because,” said he, “He always speaks to me in Welsh.” To me it has often seemed as if the well-beloved of my soul had been born in my native village, had gone to my school, and had passed through all my personal experiences, for…

You are this day, Christian, like the seed of Israel in Canaan. You have not to escape from Egypt; you are already free. With a high hand and with an outstretched arm God has set you free from the Pharaoh of your sin; you have already passed through the wilderness of your convictions. The fiery serpents…

We ought to pray with thanksgiving in its highest of all senses, by thanking God that we have the mercy which we seek. I wish we could learn this high virtue of faith. When I was conversing lately with our dear friend George Müller, he frequently astonished me with the way in which he mentioned that…

According new research by the Barna Group, 44% of American Christians told researchers that attending church is not an essential part of their faith. World Magazine, December 28, 2019, p. 13 Interestingly, whatever these respondents told the researchers, it doesn’t square with the plain teaching regarding…

In his book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It, Brian Dumaine writes, “Whether Democrat or Republican, those surveyed respected Amazon more than the FBI, universities, Congress, the press, the courts, and religion. That perhaps helps…

Erica Komisar is a therapist who deals with the depression and anxiety common among children and adolescents. She states that one of the most important explanations is the declining interest in religion. A 2018 study in the American Journal of Epidemiology examined how being raised in a family with religious…

Chicago police identified a severely injured and unconscious man they found in as Alonzo Bennett. All they had for identification was an old mug shot, but Bennett’s family assented to the identification. Soon thereafter the hospitalized man died without regaining consciousness. The family planned a barbecue…

Judith Toensing taught sixth grade in 1997. At the end of the school year she wrote on student Christian Gilmer’s report card. “Keep up the good work! Invite me to your Harvard graduation.” Christian just graduated from Harvard as a doctor of public health. She sent an invitation to Ms. Toensing who…