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Have you never noticed how men get their senses clear through affliction? I read in the life of good Dr. Brown that when he first preached he heard two women at the door talking to one another about his sermon. One of them said to the other, “Ah! It was very well, but it was almost all tinsel.” A short…

I was noticing, in the life of that man of God the Earl of Shaftesbury, that his first religious impressions were produced by a humble woman. The impressions that made him Shaftesbury—the man of God and the friend of man—were received in the nursery. Little Lord Ashley had a godly nurse who spoke to…

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…

Author: Dr. S.D. Gordon

Search Committee’s Reference checks We do not have a happy report to give. We have not been able to find a suitable candidate for this church, though we have one promising prospect. Thank you for your suggestions. We have followed up on each one with interviews or by calling at least three references.…

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…

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…

In January 2000, leaders in Charlotte, North Carolina, invited their favorite son, Billy Graham, to a luncheon in his honor. Billy initially hesitated to accept the invitation because he struggles with Parkinson's disease. But the Charlotte leaders said, "We don’t expect a major address. Just come and…

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…

The story of the painting, The Last Supper, is >> > > > > > extremely interesting and instructive. The two >> > > > > > incidents connected with it afford a most convincing >> > > > > > lesson on the effects of right thinking or wrong >> > > > > > thinking in the life of a boy or girl, or of a man >>…

Barna: Doctrinal confusion abounds; Mohler: Church is key to discipleship Oct 14, 2002 By Michael Foust LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Seventy-nine percent of Americans profess a belief in the Trinity, while 74 percent reject the concept of original sin; 59 percent say Satan is merely a symbol of evil; and nearly…

I have seen, at a railway station, gentlemen with first-class tickets walking up and down the platform unable to find a first-class carriage; and if the train was going on they have jumped in the third class so as to get to their journey’s end. If there is any man who does not think that he ought to…

A switchman on the railway does not turn the switch the right way, and one train crashes into another, and a hundred lives are lost. He may say to himself, “What a crime I committed by my carelessness,” and everybody denounces him for it. But suppose he forgot to turn the switch, and by a sort of miracle…

The Israelites in Egypt had no doubt caught very much the spirit of the Egyptians, and the spirit of the Egyptians was the exact opposite of the spirit of a true-born Englishman. We rejoice that we are free. We are in the habit of discussing laws and criticizing statutes, and if there were an unjust…

When a young man comes to college he usually has much to unlearn. If his education has been neglected, a sort of instinctive ignorance covers his mind with briars and brambles. If he has gone to some faulty school where the teaching is flimsy, his tutor has first of all to fetch out of him what he has…

Baltimore Raven’s Offensive lineman James Hurst and his wife, Amanda have been hosting a couples Bible study in their home for the past three years. In the last of their sessions for this season Quarterback Trace Mc Sorley indicated a desire to be scripturally baptized. He said, “We’re a pretty religious,…

A museum in Germany used the free time created by the pandemic to create a display that set a new Guinness World record. Frederik Braun and his team used the mandated shut down at the museum to set up a display with a model train and nearly 3000 glasses filled with varying amounts of water. They attached…

When the FBI trains its agents that are involved in counterfeit currency fraud, they train them to be totally familiar with real banknotes, rather than the forgeries they might encounter. Their philosophy is that if their agents are absolutely trained and knowledgeable about real currency, then they…

When Long Island railroad conductor Jerry Savino was walking through one of the cars on his train, he noticed a large folder on the overhead rack of the train. Concerned that it might contain something dangerous, Savino opened the envelope and found a wad of 90 new $100 bills. He found paperwork with…

With record numbers of people crossing into the United States, agents are spending 40% of their time caring for people already in custody and handling other administrative tasks, rather than conducting patrols and uncovering smuggling activity. To help with these problems, the agency has begun adding…

In Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen, Donald Miller writes, “In 2013, the soap company Dove released a series of short films featuring women who were the subjects of an FBI-trained forensic artist. Without actually seeing the women, the artist would draw each woman…

When the SpaceX capsule returned safely to earth in September 2021, returning four amateurs after a three-day journey in space, the group made history as the first space tourists. The four crew members included a billionaire who paid for the trip and his three guests who hoped to show that ordinary people…

Sam Gifford and a friend were taking senior pictures along the Mississippi River near Minneapolis, when a nearby shout changed their focus. Authorities said an older man hunting for a lost drone had slipped on a trail and slid 60 feet down the embankment towards the river. Gifford asked his friend to…

Former Pastor Steven Dyer owns a stable business in Oklahoma and enjoys working with horses. He shares his experience through YouTube and has posted videos about the challenges of working with wild mustangs and teaching ponies not to be afraid. Dyer named the video series,” Sermon By Horse,” and said…

Justin Hale, a researcher from VitalSmarts, a leadership training company says, “We've just entered uncharted territory as a workforce, and as our research indicates, many leaders aren’t fully prepared to manage remote teams . . . We need to be flexible with how we work and adjust, while acknowledging…