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HOPE ---------- by Max Lucado The scene recorded in Luke 24:13-24 fascinates me-two sincere disciples walking along the dusty road to Emmaus telling how the last nail has been driven in Israel's coffin. God, in disguise, listens patiently, his wounded hands buried deeply in his robe. He must have been…

I remember well going to speak to the minister and telling him that I hoped I had found the Savior, and begging him to ask me such questions as he thought fit to test me. The true pilgrim never wishes to enter the house Beautiful if he does not have a right to be there; he is afraid that he may be guilty…

John Bunyan, in Pilgrim’s Progress, tells us that Christian, by the light of day, looked back on the Valley of the Shadow of Death, which he had passed through in the nighttime, and saw what a narrow path he had kept and what a bog there was on one side, and what a miry place on the other, and where…

It is like John Bunyan’s parable of Passion and Patience in Pilgrim’s Progress. Passion would have his best things first; Patience would have his best things last. Passion had all his best things, and laughed at Patience as Patience sat there. But after a while, Passion had used up all his best things…

In Pilgrim’s Progress, when Mr. Greatheart went with Miss Much-afraid and Mr. Feeble-mind on the road to the Celestial City, he had his hands full. He says of poor Mr. Feeble-mind that, when he came to the lions, he said, “Oh, the lions will have me!” And he was afraid of the giants, and afraid of everything…

When John Bunyan was a boy, he was so foolhardy that when a snake rose against him, he took it in his hand and plucked the sting out of its mouth, but he was not harmed. It was his turn to stand sentinel at the siege of Nottingham, and as he was going forth, another man offered to take his place. That…

In The Pilgrim’s Progress, as Christian was going along the exceedingly narrow pathway with a deep ditch on one side and a dangerous quagmire upon the other, he came to a stand. He had half a thought to go back, and then again he thought he might be halfway through the valley, so he resolved to go on.…

In THANKS! How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier, Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D. writes, "I think about those courageous individuals who left Plymouth and sailed to Holland and then crossed the Atlantic to New England in 1620. All but three families dug graves in the rocky soil of New England to bury…

In the book, The God Who Knows Your Name Max Lucado writes, “Worship is when you’re aware that what you’ve been given is far greater than what you can give. Worship is the awareness that were it not for his touch, you’d still be hobbling and hurting, bitter and broken. Worship is the half-glazed expression…

Officials in an Austrian town are looking for a person with unique skills to fill a unique position. They are looking for a person to live in a nearby hermitage built into the steep cliffs in the Salzburg region. The position is unpaid, so the person would need a second job. The job announcement also…

Mindy Belz, writing in World Magazine says “Our present day ingratitude may have taken root during the 1950s, when we thanked ourselves for our new prosperity instead of God.” Somewhere along the way, our National day of Thanksgiving has changed. History teaches that we find Thanksgivings beginnings…

A book of psalms dating to 1640 and believed to be the first book published in the United States was auctioned for a record $414.2 million. The book was one of several originally owned by the Old South Church in Boston. The church has the distinction of being known as the church Samuel Adams attended,…

The story of the Moravian Brethren is a similar one. When the Christians of various and disparate traditions—Roman Catholic, Calvinist, Lutheran, Anabaptist, and many others—gathered together on the Von Zinzendorf estate in Moravia, in the early 1700s, they saw themselves as pilgrims in spiritual unity.…

After thousands of birds fell out of the sky on New Year’s Eve followed by a large fish die off nearby, some people began questioning if these events were signs of a coming apocalypse in 2011. Several news organizations quickly located experts to talk about the possibilities. Anderson Cooper decided…

On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson became pro baseball's first black player when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers. But there's an amazing story of faith and courage behind Robinson's entry into baseball. Branch Rickey was the Dodger's baseball executive who eventually signed Jackie Robinson. Rickey's…

By Ian Morgan Cron Published May 31, 2011 | FoxNews.com Five words could prevent the public brawls between Christians who differ in their opinions on social and theological issues. “…but I might be wrong.” Pepper an impassioned debate with those five words with someone you’ve previously denounced as…

The number of people who claim no religious affiliation, meanwhile, has doubled since 1990 to fifteen percent, its highest point in history. Christianity is plummeting in America, while the number of non-believers is skyrocketing. A shocking new study of Americans’ religious beliefs shows the beginnings…

Many of you have heard of Gordon MacDonald. He’s pretty famous in the Christian world. I know him as the writer of the book, Ordering your Private World. He tells of his own trouble which he didn’t understand. He was approached by a Christian Organization to send in a resume to be its president. He didn’t…

Governor Bradford Proclamation The following proclamation was made by Governor Bradford in 1623, 3 years after the Pilgrims settled at Plymouth; To all ye Pilgrims, “Inasmuch as the great father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, squashes and garden vegetables, and…

Everyone faces times of adversity. Most of the Psalms were born in difficulty. Most of the Epistles were written in prisons. Most of the greatest thinkers of all time had to pass through the fire. Bunyan wrote Pilgrim's Progress from jail. Florence Nightingale, too ill to move from her bed, reorganized…

With Thanksgiving approaching (for those of us in the U.S., at least), I thought you might enjoy these excerpts from a book called Then Some Other Things Happened, a collection of short pieces about history written by eighth graders and compiled by Bill Lawrence, a teacher and columnist. The Pilgrams…

Treasures What are the things you treasure the most? There was a time when I had an ambition to write a Western. I figured, hey, Louis L'amour is dead, somebody has got to take his place, it just as well be me. But somewhere along the way I got distracted writing for church leaders and never got around…

"My desires seem especially to be after weaned from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to all its allurements. My soul desires to feel itself more of a pilgrim and a stranger here below, that nothing may divert me from pressing through the lonely desert, till I arrive at my…

Gratitude As a Way of Life In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Recommended Reading Ephesians 5:18-20 When the American pilgrims celebrated three days of thanksgiving in 1621 they were doing what came naturally for them: honoring God in…

Randy Alcorn in his book The Treasure Principle cites the PBS program Affluenza which addresses what it calls the "modern-day plague of materialism." The show stated the following statistics: The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his children. By age twenty,…