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  • God Knows

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Oct 7, 2011
     | 2,244 views

    GOD KNOWS The receiving line at the memorial was very long as Jim and Steph had many family members that came from Texas and Georgia. Halfway through the line, I was introduced to Jim's sister, brother and nephew. They said "Are you the Brad Henry that wrote the devotional about my brother?" I ...read more

  • Making A Dent In The Universe  PRO

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Oct 6, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,209 views

    MAKING A DENT IN THE UNIVERSE When Apple founder Steve Jobs died, there were many posts on various websites about his spirituality (Jobs was Buddhist). One cartoon depicted him at the Pearly Gates while Saint Peter fumbles through the Book of Life. Steve, holding an I-Something, says, "I have an ...read more

  • Timothy's Story

    Contributed by Timothy Enns on Oct 5, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,356 views

    TIMOTHY'S STORY I want to tell you a story today about a little fellow named Jason. The circumstances that Jason was born into not entirely clear. What we do know is that his birth parents, for what ever reason, decided not to care for him or could not care for him. Instead they decided to place ...read more

  • Freeing The Quail

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Oct 5, 2011
     | 1,883 views

    FREEING THE QUAIL At a Farmer’s Market, there was a covey of quail walking around a pole. They had strings attached to their legs and walked in circles hour after hour. A customer purchased the birds and then cut the strings off their legs, giving them their freedom. Yet, in spite of the ...read more

  • Two Faces

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 5, 2011
     | 1,434 views

    TWO FACES WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Frank and Louie the cat was born with two faces, two mouths, two noses, three eyes — and lots of doubts about his future. Now, 12 years after Marty Stevens rescued him from being euthanized because of his condition, the exotic blue-eyed rag doll cat is not only ...read more

  • Flight Check

    Contributed by Brad Froese on Oct 4, 2011
     | 6,564 views

    FLIGHT CHECK When you're a pilot and you're getting ready to go on a flight, you always run through a checklist: to assess the air worthiness of the aircraft, and the conditions you'll be flying in before you commits to the flight because all the weather information and every surface and ...read more

  • A 30 Part Study Of Prayer Keys During Our ...

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Oct 4, 2011
     | 2,886 views

    A 30 part study of prayer keys during our Wednesday night prayer meetings? You may think it will become boringly repetitive. No, No, NOOOO! During this study, we will hear how Mary, Queen of Scots, feared the prayers of John Knox more than the combined armies of Europe. We will hear Jonathan ...read more

  • Setting Your Faith Aside

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Oct 4, 2011
     | 1,718 views

    SETTING YOUR FAITH ASIDE Have you ever thought you could separate from God ... just for a little while ... and then later on turn back to God? Unfortunately we all do this ... in big ways or small ways. Any time we decide to live a life INDEPENDENT of God, we run a big risk. I remember a ...read more

  • Do Dead Men Bleed?  PRO

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Oct 3, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,547 views

    DO DEAD MEN BLEED? It is dangerous to base our salvation experience entirely upon feeling. Knowing that, and acting upon it, are still sometimes strangers. Like the psychiatrist who took on a very disturbed man as a patient. The man thought he was dead. No matter what techniques the doctor ...read more

  • What The Captain Means  PRO

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Oct 3, 2011
    based on 5 ratings
     | 1,687 views

    WHAT THE CAPTAIN MEANS The storm came suddenly upon the boat loaded with sailors. In a matter of moments hulls were broken, decks were awash, and sailors were floundering. But as quickly came the storm, so came the captain, maneuvering his large vessel between the waves and rescuing one sailor ...read more

  • Noble Savages

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 3, 2011
     | 1,237 views

    NOBLE SAVAGES For a while people have believed that our problems exist because we are too civilized. If we would just get back to nature and throw away all of the modern conveniences and the ideas found in the Christian religion, then we would be like the noble savages of old. A good example ...read more

  • The Three Stone-Carriers  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 3, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,598 views

    THE THREE STONE-CARRIERS Many years ago in a church in England, a preacher entered the pulpit and said: "Brethren, before I preach, allow me to tell this story. Many years have passed since I was in this place. On that evening there came three young men, not only with the intention of ...read more

  • Good God, Good News

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Oct 3, 2011
     | 5,301 views

    GOOD GOD, GOOD NEWS Promoting his recent book "Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived", Rob Bell asked these questions: "How could that God (who condemns people to eternal punishment) ever be good? How could that ever be good news?" Well, let’s ask the ...read more

  • It's Not The Water  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Sep 29, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,931 views

    IT'S NOT THE WATER Little Betsy had faithfully attended baptism classes. Her mother, wanting to be sure her daughter understood its significance, asked, "Honey, what does baptism mean?" "Well, it isn't the water that makes you clean ..." she began. Smiling, Mother thought, Yes, she ...read more

  • How Much More Grievous Are The Consequences Of ...

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Sep 29, 2011
     | 2,174 views

    "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes ...read more

  • Orel Hershiser, Singer

    Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Sep 29, 2011
     | 2,763 views

    OREL HERSHISER, SINGER A number of years ago Orel Hershiser was pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers. They had just won the World Series, and Orel had been named the most valuable player of the series. One of the TV shows about the series showed him in the dugout just before the ninth inning ...read more

  • Whose Boy Are You?  PRO

    Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Sep 29, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,758 views

    WHOSE BOY ARE YOU? "I was about 12 years old when a new preacher came to my church. I would always go in late and slip out early. But one day the preacher said the benediction so fast I got caught and had to walk out with the crowd. I could feel every eye in church on me. "Just about the time I ...read more

  • Call To War

    Contributed by Sam Higgs on Sep 29, 2011
     | 2,774 views

    CALL TO WAR Have you ever heard the "trumpet" call to do battle in our culture? On every side we are bombarded with things and teachings that are anti-God. There is the lasciviousness where "free-sex" reigns as supreme. It is the Christian’s God ordained duty to confront this sin against God ...read more

  • If Nature Does Not Wish That Weaker Individuals ...

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Sep 29, 2011
     | 1,349 views

    "If nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one...the strongest and best who must triumph and that they have the right to endure. He who does not wish to fight in this ...read more

  • Touched By The Lord

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Sep 29, 2011
     | 2,873 views

    TOUCHED BY THE LORD In the Welsh Revival of 1901, under the ministry of Robert Murray McCheyne, so great was the revival that every tavern and pub in Wales went broke. How many anti-alcohol sermons did McCheyne deliver? None. How many tirades against ...read more

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