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A pious lad, who had no place at home to pray in, went to the stable and climbed up into the hay-loft. But very soon someone came up the ladder and interrupted him. The next time he took care to pull the ladder up after him—a very useful hint for us. It would be well indeed if we could so completely…

STUNNED BY GRACE by Max Lucado I've never been surprised by God's judgment, but I'm still stunned by his grace. God's judgment has never been a problem for me. In fact, it always seemed right. Lightning bolts on Sodom. Fire on Gomorrah. Good job, God. Egyptians swallowed in the Red Sea. They had it coming.…

From: Jim Meigs from FBC, Center Point, Alabama

Christians, never be satisfied with being merely saved. Up with you! Away! Off! Go onward to the high mountains, to the clearer light, to the brighter joy! If saved, and brought, like the shipwrecked mariner, to shore, is that enough? Yes, for the moment it is enough to warrant the purest satisfaction…

Pastors today are faced with more work, more problems, and more stress than any other time in the history of the church. This is taking a frightening toll on the ministry, shown by the statistics below: Pastors: · Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout…

If some influential and powerful person should say to you, “I live to promote your interest. Wherever I go and whatever I do, whatever I seek and whatever I obtain, I live for you,” it would show great friendship, and excite in us great expectations. Would it not? Yet here is the Lord Jesus declaring…

If any of you should be well assured that, in a certain line of business, you would make a vast sum of money, would that confidence lead you to refuse that business? Would it lead you to lie in bed all day, or to desert your post altogether? No, the assurance that you would be diligent and would prosper…

You say that he is “a rewarder of those who seek him”; do you despise the reward? Are you content with having made a profession of religion? Some professing Christians remind me of the reply of the child who was asked at the Sunday school about her father, who never went to any place of worship. “Is…

We have heard of some who on the battlefield have been seeking for the dead; they have turned their faces up and looked at them, but did not know them. But the tender wife has come, and there was some deep wound, some saber cut that her husband had received upon his breast, and she said “It is he; I…

Trusting to our own judgment often means following our own whims. But faith seeks direction from infallible wisdom, and so it is led in a right way. God knows your capacity better than you do; ask Him to choose your inheritance for you. If the flowers were to revolt against the gardener, and each one…

Suppose I am a sculptor. If it is not possible for me to attain to the perfection of Praxiteles or Phidias, yet I must come as near to them as I can. I shall not be a master of the sculptor’s art unless I seek to imitate those who have been the most proficient in it. Suppose also that, through the infirmity…

Do you think that He who is willing to die is unwilling to apply the results of His passion? A man leaps into the water to bring out a drowning child. After he has brought the child alive on shore, if he happens to have a piece of bread in his pocket and the child needs it, do you think that he who rescued…

I might illustrate the willfulness of many a supplication by that of a little boy who was very diligent in saying his prayers, but was at the same time disobedient, ill-tempered, and the pest of the house. His mother told him that she thought it was mere hypocrisy for him to pretend to pray. He replied,…

Every time an Israelite thought of the bones of Joseph, he thought, “We are to go out of this country one day.” Perhaps he was a man prospering in business, laying up store in Egypt, but he would say to himself, “I shall have to part with this; Joseph’s bones are to be carried up; I am not to be here…

I cannot pass over the thirty years of His silence without feeling that here was a marvelous instance of how He humbled Himself. I know young men who think that two or three years’ education is far too long for them. They want to be preaching at once—running away, as I sometimes tell them, like chickens…

When I go to the sunny south in the winter for my health, I am advised by the physician to keep myself as much as possible in the sun. I am told to let my rooms look towards the sun rising and to keep clear of sunless streets and courts. This is the advice of wisdom, for if you lodge in rooms upon which…

When I was seeking the Lord, I not only believed that I could not pray without divine help, but I felt in my very soul that I could not. Then I could not even feel aright, or mourn as I would, or groan as I would. I longed to long more after Christ. Alas! I could not even feel that I needed Him as I…

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…

A young minister had been preaching in a country village, and the sermon apparently took deep effect on the minds of the hearers. In the congregation there was a young man who felt acutely the truth of the solemn words to which the preacher had given utterance. He sought the preacher after the service,…

Alison Birch, the owner of AJ’s Salon in Stroud, Gloucestershire needed a new hair stylist. In thinking of the qualities she desired in the new employee she advertised for “happy," part-time, fully qualified, stylist.” Within hours she was contacted by the Department for Work and Pensions about her discriminatory…

In his book, It Calls You Back, Luis J. Rodriguez discusses the true relationship between a father and son who dealt with gangs. This son gets in a fight with his father about being in a gang. The son then runs away from the father and the father chases him “from street to street, alley to alley.” Then…

As 2020 continued to bring fear and anxiety to people around the world, many in the United States began decorating for the Christmas holiday early. Though most decoration don’t start to appear until late November or early December, some people began putting up Christmas trees and hanging lights as early…

Chad Saylor ran into a local jail seeking protection, but didn’t find what he was looking for. Authorities said he climbed a pipe and then got stuck. Saylor called 911 and asked the police to help free him. Authorities said that after they helped Saylor get out of his predicament, they discovered that…

A Washington D.C. father went to social media for help unlocking his iPad after his son accidentally locked it. Evan Osnos, tweeted a picture of his iPad lock screen which informed him the device had been locked for over 25 million minutes because his toddler had guessed the wrong password too many times.…