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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…

To celebrate Pi Day (March 14) 2019, Google employee Emma Hayuka Iwao set a new record by calculating the value of Pi to more than 31.4 trillion digits. Iwao used 25 Google Cloud virtual machines and shattered the old record of 22 trillion digits. She told reporters this was the first time cloud technology…

Christie’s auction house offered an unusual item that could be seen as a unique expression of love. The auction house said they auctioned a 22-pound meteorite shaped like a heat known as “The Heart of Space.” Scientists theorize it was part of an iron mass that split from the asteroid belt and eventually…

In Shattered Dreams, Patrick Mead writes, “Life is not about you and your dreams, shattered or otherwise. It is about God’s plan of redemption. A plan you get to be a part of when you accepted His precious gift of salvation. And a plan you get to participate in as you submit your shattered dreams to…

In Shattered Dreams, Patrick Mead writes, “God doesn’t just want to restore your shattered dreams and broken lives—He has so much more in store for you. He doesn’t just want to make your live whole; He wants to use your pain to bring hope to others.” --Shattered Dreams, 106 Jeremiah 29:11 (NKJV) For…

In Shattered Dreams, Patrick Mead writes, “Following God involves courage, but not risk. Once you’ve settled that you will follow God no matter what, you have nothing to lose; you’ve already surrendered your hopes, dreams—even shattered ones—to Him. You’ve determined that you don’t just want to know…

In Shattered Dreams, Patrick Mead writes, “Being faithful is not a passive thing, it requires work. It is active. Instead of working to control the outcomes of your life, are you ready to take the next step of faithfulness, even if life doesn’t turn out as you’ve planned? What do you want more of, your…

In our human condition, the specter of death is ever-present and with all our might we resist it until the very end. Part of the reason for this resistance is fear of the unknown – our lack of knowledge about heaven. What happens to us after we die? Is that the end? Where do we go and what will we be…

In The Divine Commodity: Discovering a Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity, Skye Jethani writes, “Silence allows us the space to contemplate the vastness of the heavens and the God beyond them. Silence can shatter the trivialized deity that has occupied our imaginations and provide God the canvas to begin…

It was supposed to be the "perfect" town. After all, it was planned by Disney itself. The town of Celebration, Florida, a 16-acre utopian community just ten minutes from Walt Disney World, was developed in order to promote "Disney values." Disney designed the buildings, as well as its education and health…

Owens recounts how she decided that after she had laid out her requests before God in her evening prayers, she would then listen for God to say something back to her. She waited in the darkness for something to come, but heard nothing. Finally, tired and dissatisfied, she went to sleep. The night passed,…

Listening to Atheist Richard Dawkins convinced him. He had been a Mormon, but as Richard Morgan read Dawkins’ book, The Blind Watchmaker, his faith was shattered. He became convinced that all he had been looking for through his faith was social acceptance. The book made it clear that there really was…

BROKENNESS "Going once, going twice, sold for $7,000.00!" The auctioneer said right before his gavel hit the table. Rita Coors was elated. She'd just purchased a porcelain mask, hand painted by John Denver. She couldn't wait to hold it in her hands. As the auctioneer at the 1997 Charity Celebrity Ball…

JOY In James 1:2-4, James wrote, "Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, [3] knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. [4] And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." Consider it all joy? You may…

AMBITION Have you ever had your dreams shattered? Have you wondered where God was when life became too much to bear? Have you ever thought that if you had more in life you would get more out of life? In his book, Shattered Dreams, Larry Crabb wrote: "Satan's masterpiece is not the prostitute or the skid-row…

Broken I was "rough housing" in the living room with my brother when I knocked over one of my mother's ornamental coal-oil lamps off of the mantle. I tried to catch it, but couldn't, and it shattered into a zillion pieces. I cleaned up the mess, but knew I could never replace the broken lamp. I can still…

Although, the author of this story is unknown to me I could not neglect a great principle that echoes from the heart of this small story. This story has a mum and son who live in a small village, whose lives disclosed true love which was proved by a sacrifice. The son of this story starts by talking…

Darkness September 9, 2000 was a day like any other day for Larry and Terry Singletary, Southern Baptist Missionaries to Uganda, as they drove toward Karamoja, Uganda with their two teenage children in the back seat of their car. But it wasn't just any day. A tribal warrior stepped out of the tall grass…

HEART In 1991, a hiker discovered a body sticking out of the snow in the Austria Alps. The follow-up investigation revealed that the body was a man in his forties who perished on the mountain approximately 5,000 years ago. After the discovery, many theories were advanced about how the man, nicknamed…

In his book, Shattered Dreams, Larry Crabb wrote: "I would beg God to deliver me from Calvary-denying sermons, which leave people feeling scolded and pressured and falsely hopeful because biblical principles are presented as formulas for making life work. I would plead protection from Pentecost-denying…

Finishing the Race John Stephen Akhwari ran in the 1968 Olympics representing Tanzania. Akhwari injured himself in the competition, as a result he finished the race an hour after the gold medal winner. After he crossed the finish line, a reporter asked him, "Why didn't you retire from the race, since…

RECONCILIATION In the motion picture Bride Wars, Liv and Emma are best friends for life. Since they were young, each has dreamed of an ultimate wedding in New York’s Plaza Hotel, with each serving as the other’s Maid of Honor. Though their lives take different directions, the women stay close friends,…

WORD OF GOD/FOUNDATION The frightening sounds of cracking walls, breaking glass, and exploding pipes awakened many residents of Laguna Hills, California. A landslide destroyed 17 multimillion-dollar homes when it struck the posh community overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and damaged 11 others. Luckily,…

The folly of human nature is that even though we know where the answers lie, we don't turn there for fear of what it will say. A school teacher lost her life savings in a business scheme that had been elaborately explained by a swindler. When her investment disappeared and her dream was shattered, she…

A woodpecker was hammering away on an old hickory tree in the woods. He was making the bark fly when a bolt of lightning out of the sky shattered that old tree into splinters. The woodpecker died thinking he had done it. 400 More Snappy Stories That Preachers Tell, Paul E. Holdcraft, page 46