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Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. Matthew 24:44 Recommended Reading 2 Peter 3:1-13 "Second Coming Type" is the largest type size that will fit in a newspaper's headline, reserved for earthshaking events. In Are We Living in the End Times? Tim LaHaye…

American workers are not using all their vacation days and it adds up. Some of the 768 million unused days accrue for use in future years, but 236 million simply disappear. That number of days represents over $65 billion in lost benefit. However, adding up the lost days and money does not tell the whole…

The city of Brooksville, Florida discovered they had accidentally sold the town water town when a local business purchased an unused municipal building beneath the tower. The businessman Bobby Read, only wanted the building so he could convert it into a gym. When he went to the county to get the address…

Traveling with her son gave Kendra Robins an idea to minster to homeless children around the country. Robins noticed that her son slept better away from home when he had a familiar item to snuggle with. She realized children spending an evening in a homeless shelter might be afraid to sleep because they…

A new initiative in Egypt allows residents to redeem their trash for extra cash. Many Egyptians stood in line in the capital city of Cairo carrying bags of old books, plastic water bottles, and other recyclable materials to exchange for extra money. The country was seeking a way to reduce huge piles…

There is an interesting debate occurring in France. The French government owns all church building built before 1905. There are thousands of government-owned church buildings that are standing empty and unused. “Only 6 percent of French people attend Mass every Sunday, and rural churches are ‘falling…

Americans are working more and resting less. More than half of U.S. workers left vacation time unused in 2015. A balanced healthy lifestyle is important to health and happiness. Over the last few years, workers are taking four less days of time off per year. Not only is that harmful to personal and family…

Herman “Hy” Goldman celebrated him 101st birthday by going to work, just like he usually does. Goldman says he is happy to still be working and doesn’t plan to quit after 73 years at the same job. Other than a brief absence to serve in World War II, Goldman has worked at Capital Lighting since 1941.…

May 4, 2012 9:11 am Author: The American Dream Do you know what the fastest growing religion in America is? It isn’t Christianity. According to the latest U.S. Religion Census that was just released on May 1, 2012, the fastest growing religion in America is Islam. The data for the census was compiled…

The Blackhawks of Fennville High School were rejoicing. They had just completed an undefeated 20-0 regular season. As they let their star player, who had made the winning basket, down off of their shoulders back to the floor, he collapsed. Wes Leonard was a three sport star at the high school but unknown…

A preacher and a soap maker went for a walk together. The soap maker said, “What good is religion? Look at all the trouble and misery of the world! Still there, even after years—thousands of years—of teaching about goodness and truth and peace. Still there, after all the prayers and sermons and teachings.…

G. K. Chesterton said the unbeliever is like a man born upside down, standing on his head, his feet “dancing upward in idle ecstasies, while his brain is in the abyss.” Christianity sets a man right side up. His head is placed in heaven, where it belongs, and his feet on the earth, where they belong.…

Theologian Hans Kung wrote On Being a Christian, a 602-page theology of the Christian life, without a word about prayer. He was asked why, and he answered, in effect, “I forgot.” There was the publisher’s deadline, and the harassment he was receiving from the Vatican, and he overlooked prayer. Precisely.…

Blaise Pascal had a kind of born again experience the night of November 23, 1654. A brilliant scientist and intellectual, Pascal met God, as it were, face to face, and wrote what he saw and felt, as it was happening to him. He recorded on a piece of parchment, “From about half past ten in the evening…

EAST INDIAN EVANGELIST K. P. Yohannan says he will never forget one of his first prayer meetings in an American church. He had come to the United States eager to meet some of its spiritual giants and leaders. One man in particular held his interest, a preacher known even in India for his powerful sermons…

God is like a good father. Or like a good friend. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead liked to tell the story of an old Scot who was quite ill and near death. His pastor came to call on him one morning. When he entered the bedroom and sat down beside him, he noticed another chair opposite him, placed next to the…

Two men were pushing their way through the crowds in New York City’s Times Square. They had to shout to each other to be heard above the din. One man was a native of New York, the other was a Native American from Oklahoma. The Native American stopped suddenly and said to his friend, “Listen! Can you…

A week after these experiences at Hope College, I went to Chicago to attend a National Day of Prayer event. Different pastors spoke on what God was doing in their communities. One of them, a pastor from Texas, had a ministry with street gangs, which in itself was amazing, because he didn’t look like…

So like people dying of thirst in the desert, we stagger exhausted and aimless through our days. Preaching, teaching, training, counseling, and administrating become intolerably burdensome because we have somehow forgotten why we are doing them. This weariness comes close to what medieval theologians…

GEORGE MUELLER, the great Victorian Christian and social reformer, tells a story of persistent prayer in his diary: In November 1844, I began to pray for the conversion of five individuals. I prayed every day without a single intermission, whether sick or in health, on the land, on the sea, and whatever…

God being God, Annie Dillard playfully suggested that along with our Bibles and vestments we should wear crash helmets when we worship.

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.…

Broken cisterns are idols, God-substitutes. They are the spiritual hot dogs we ingest on the way to God’s banquet. They dull and eventually kill our appetite for the deep and nourishing richness of his holy fare. Like the Turkish delight the witch gives to Edmund in C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch,…

One spring day in 1993, I was so discouraged I didn’t know how I could go on with my work. I prayed with my wife over my anguish and went outside for a long walk, hoping that the physical activity would renew my spirits. It didn’t. I walked back into the house and heard the telephone ringing; the last…

Rousseau thought this way: I bless God for his gifts, but I do not pray to him. Why should I ask him to change for me the course of things, to work miracles on my behalf? I who ought to love above all the order established by his wisdom and maintained by his providence. In a similar vein, Immanuel Kant…