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Suppose there is a fire in the upper room of a house and the people gather in the street. A child is in the upper story; how is he to escape? He cannot leap down—he would be dashed to pieces. A strong man comes beneath, and cries, “Drop into my arms.” It is a part of faith to know that the man is there;…

Faith, as soon as it opens its mouth, begins to make a personal appropriation of the blessings of the grace of God. What do you do when you come to the communion table? Do you come there to see other people eat bread and drink wine? No. In communion, each of you eats, and each of you drinks, and that…

You have seen a noble fountain in a city adorning a public square. See how the water leaps into the air; then it falls into a circular basin that fills and pours out its fullness into another lower down, and this again floods a third. Hear the merry splash as the waters fall in showers and cataracts…

Writing for Psychology Today, Shainna Ali, PhD, says, “We live in an era in which communication seems simpler than times of the past. In essence, a co-worker is one email away, a friend is one text away, and a loved one is one video chat away. Although communication may be easier and faster, connection…

The development and delivery of sermons is an ancient art and calling. In a Buddhist temple in Japan, half of that art is being taken over by a robot. The Android Kannon is programmed to deliver sermons from the Heart Sutras at Kyoto’s Kodaii temple. The humanoid stands nearly 6 ½ feet tall and has flesh-like…

According to witnesses, Dylan Roof talked and prayed with his victims for an hour before pulling out a gun and methodically shooting nine members of the Emmanuel AME Church. At his first court appearance, magistrate James B. Gosnell Jr. read the names of the slain, one by one. After the reading of a…

the philosophy of the master martial artist, Bruce Lee, is being revealed to James Franciscus in, The Way of the Intercepting Fist, one of the episodes of the TV series, Longstreet. Bruce tells James that he should become like "water," forming to the very essence of his opponent's character and skills,…

How likely are you to share the gospel with a person you know to be without Christ? Do you normally share with them their need for Christ or do you keep silent, unwilling to put your reputation on the line by speaking up? Martin Luther King Jr. captured the essence of our silence in just a few words.…

When Ray Fisman landed his first job after college, it was for a salary greater than all the money he had earned in his life up to that point. According to his own testimony, He was content, until the moment he discovered how much more other people just like him were earning. Then he said, “my monthly…

Fri, Jan. 28, 2011 Posted: 02:53 PM EDT Popular preacher Joel Osteen's recent affirmation that homosexuality is a sin has garnered reaction from both gay rights advocates and evangelicals alike. LGBT group the Human Rights Campaign called for an immediate apology, arguing that his statement "adds a burden…

Editor's Note*: Deepak Chopra is founder of the Chopra Foundation and a senior scientist at the Gallup Organization. He has authored over 60 books, including The Soul of Leadership, which The Wall Street Journal called one of five best business books about careers. By Deepak Chopra, Special to CNN For…

HOPE FOUND The school system in a large city had a program to help children keep up with their school work during stays in the city’s hospitals. One day a teacher who was assigned to the program received a routine call asking her to visit a particular child. She took the child’s name and room number…

I read a story in the L. A. Times a long time ago. A guy goes to the house where he grew up and knocks on the door. Because he hadn't been there for 20 years, he finds himself getting sentimental. He asks the owners if he can walk through the house, and they let him. While in the attic, he finds an old…

EXPERIENCE Sports Illustrated greeted the newest professional football league with the question, "Will sleazy gimmicks and low-rent football work for the XFL?" Sports talk radio host Jim Rome said the only thing real about the football in the XFL is that it is real bad. Yet the founders of the league…

Happy Endings In simpler times, Beaver Cleaver packing a hobo's handkerchief with provisions and sneaking out the front door to run away was an innocent plot line. We knew the ending from the very beginning. Beaver would eventually come home to enjoy a glass of cold milk and warm cookies. Today, the…

Were it not for God’s grace, we’d all be condemned to a life of sin. In the 1950s a psychologist, Stanton Samenow, and a psychiatrist, Samuel Yochelson, sharing the conventional wisdom that crime is caused by environment, set out to prove their point. They began a 17-year study involving thousands of…

When you help support your pastor, you are helping support the Lord’s work. To highlight its annual picnic one year, a company rented two racing shells and challenged a rival company to a boat race. The rival company accepted. On the day of the picnic, everyone entered into the spirit of the event. Women…

God's Desire Have you ever wondered what God wants from you? There are two references in the New Testament to God seeking something. In Luke 19:10 Jesus says, "For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." (NASB) He said this right after his encounter with Zaccheus. Zaccheus was…

When you stand with God, you stand with the only majority that matters. A few years ago, psychologist Ruth W. Berenda and her associates carried out an interesting experiment with teenagers designed to show how a person handled group pressure. The plan was simple. They brought groups of ten adolescents…

Second Chances Almost immediately after I gave her the advice, I knew I'd told her the wrong thing. But what could I do? I'd had my chance to help her and blew it. It was fairly early in my ministry when "Nancy" stopped by my office to talk. I always had thought very highly of her, she was college-aged,…

Vengeance Have you ever heard someone downplay a scriptural command because it is in the Old Testament? I've heard it a million times, especially when it comes to God's command for people to tithe. Matthew 5:17 should set this record straight. Jesus said, "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law…

Global War on Terror is out -- "overseas contingency operation" is in. Democratic Party is out -- "Democrat Socialist Party" is in. Terrorist attack is out -- "man-caused disaster" is in. Since the new administration took office, Washington has been consumed, on both sides of the aisle, by a kind of…

"Man rises superior to every terror of nature as soon as he is able to give it a form, and can make it a definite object...He tears away the masks from the spectres which terrified his childhood, and they suprise him with his own image, for they are merely his own imaginations." --Schiller We stand together…

Parenting is more than a duty, it’s a life calling. US News and World Report once reported the following story about parenting: “Americans are so shaped and stamped by their legacy of individualism that the concepts of community virtue and moral obligation have been discredited. In our popular culture,…

Someone has come up with the following “Rules For Choosing a Superhero Name”: Don’t call yourself by your real name. (e.g., Ms. Jenny Pinchuck, The Amazing Stevie Foster). Don’t call yourself by someone else’s real name. (e.g., Mr. Teddy Kennedy, Captain Tom Cruise). Choose a name that suggests power,…