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Sunday is a comin’! (by S.M. Lockridge)

When a renowned warrior writes home after great victories, his dispatches are short and to the point; the brilliance of the news is sufficient without the light of sparkling sentences. His words are few; he has so much to tell that he does not waste a letter. His achievements are so great that they do…

Do you see that train steaming along the iron way? See, it plunges into a cavern in yonder hill! You have now lost sight of it. Has it perished? As on an angel’s wing, you fly to the top of the hill, and you look down on the other side. There it comes steaming forth again from the tunnel, bearing its…

Charles Borromeo, the famous bishop of Milan, ordered a painter who was about to draw a skeleton with a scythe over a sepulcher to substitute for it the golden key of Paradise. Truly this is a most fitting emblem for a believer’s tomb, for what is death but the key of heaven to the Christian? We notice…

Suppose a corpse is before us. How great a pretender would he be who should boast that it was in his power to restore it to life! Certainly, it would be even a greater pretense if anyone should say that he could give to himself or to another the divine life, the spiritual life by which a man is made…

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.

Dr. Doug Sager is the pastor of FBC Concord in Knoxville, TN. He was recently elected chairman of the IMB's board of trustees. He shared this hilarious story in chapel last Wednesday. Use with discretion, please! -- Mark SAGER: I come from a part of Tennessee where many people believe that if you go…

If you would get a fair estimate of the happiness of any man, you must judge him in these two closely connected things: his life and his death. The heathen Solon said, “Call no man happy until he is dead, for you do not know what changes may pass upon him in life.” We add to that, “Call no man happy…

Communion Order taken largely from a Communion Liturgy published by R. Kent Hughes. (Hughes, R. Kent. The Pastor's Book (pp. 447-449). Crossway.)

I have told you before of a strange picture that I saw at Brussels, in which the artist has represented the resurrection in a very remarkable fashion, showing the people as partly alive. There is one man with his head restored to life, but his arms remain as skeletons. There is another alive down to…

To me it is a solemn memory that I professed my faith openly in baptism. I vividly recall the scene. It was the third of May, and the weather was cold because of a keen wind. I see the broad river, and the crowds that lined the banks, and the company on the ferry boat. The word of the Lord was preached…

How to Abide and How to hear God’s will

Michael Knapinski, 45 was hiking on Washington’s Mount Rainer when he was caught in a Blizzard. Lost in white out conditions, he became unconscious. The next afternoon a helicopter search crew spotted him and flew him to the hospital. In the helicopter they detected a very faint pulse but when they admitted…

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…

Kurt Pilgeram of California contracted with Alcor Life Extension Foundation to cryogenically preserve his late father. People do this hoping that at some later time, after a cure for whatever killed the patient is discovered, they can be unfrozen and cured. Pilgeram discovered the company only preserved…

Allie Megan Webb runs a body care store in North Carolina. Her husband belongs to a group that hunts for the legendary Bigfoot. She claims to have invented a bottled scent that will attract any Bigfoot within 1.5 miles of the wearer. Her husband was wearing the scent, called “woodsy,” when he claimed…

The reputed tomb of Jesus Christ is underneath the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem’s Old City. On October 28, 2016, conservationists, who were working to restore the tomb, found what researchers think is the original limestone burial bed of Jesus. Most researchers believe that the identification…

Crucifixion was a terrible way to die. In fact, Romans almost never described this ultimate penalty. There are four detailed accounts of crucifixion that have survived until today. They all describe the same execution—that of “a Jew by the name of Jesus … resurrected into a new and glorious form. … By…

One day a man’s four-year-old daughter asked him why they celebrated Christmas. He didn’t have a good answer for her, so he went to the local book shop and bought a Children’s Bible and began reading it to her. They even memorized a Bible verse together. He never talked, though, about the cross and resurrection…

North and South Korea agreed to allow some families to meet with family members who were separated at the end of the Korean War in 1953. Eighty-nine South Koreans traveled into the North for the reunion. 92-year-old Lee Keum-seom embraced her North Korean son, 71-year-old Ri Sand Chol. He showed his…

It was mark Twain who famously wrote, “The report of my death was an exaggeration,” after a report circulated that he was seriously ill (when it was someone else) and had in fact died. How surprised would you and your family be if your obituary appeared in a local newspaper—but you were not dead? This…

Jennifer Sinclair is the principal of a Nebraska public elementary school. This Christmas she decided all the references to Christmas must go. She banned all Christmas decorations, songs, and references. She even tossed out the candy canes, because she said their J shape honors Jesus. The principal told…

On November 11, 1988 authorities arrested Dorothea Puente for the murder of seven victims who lived in her boarding house and ultimately buried in the backyard of her home in Sacramento California. The degree of her crimes were heinous and unlike anything homicide detective John Cabrera had ever seen.…

The USS Little Rock was heading for her homeport when the chunks of ice filling the St. Lawrence River stopped its progress. The sailors could have put their feet up and taken time to relax as they waited for warmer weather but instead the crew went ashore and served dinner at a local homeless shelter.…

In his weekly editorial for the magazine, The Week, William Falk tells about a show on the Food Network called Restaurant Impossible. In each episode of the program, chef and restaurateur Robert Irvine accepts an invitation to revive a dying family restaurant somewhere in Smalltown, America. Irvine critiques…