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In an article entitled, “What I would have done differently: Billy Graham’s regrets, in his own words,” Collin Hansen reports that Graham said, “One of my great regrets is that I have not studied enough. I wish I had studied more and preached less.” —Jim L. Wilson Christianity Today, April 2018, 95 2…

Thomas McNally is a 12-year-old Boy Scout in Long Island, NY. He earned a badge for learning the Heimlich maneuver, the preferred method to help people who are choking. Just a few weeks later, his own mother was choking and Thomas performed his newly learned skill. He saved his mother’s life. The Boy…

On the Mediterranean coast of Spain there is an almost finished 700-foot, 47-floor skyscraper. Only two months away from completion architects discovered a small flaw. The elevator only went to the 20th floor and there is no room in the plan for adding an elevator to service the final 17 floors. Some…

“Spanish architects building a 700-foot skyscraper on Spain’s Mediterranean coast discovered a bit of a design flaw: The 47-floor building’s elevator only goes to the 20th floor. What’s more, architects for the InTempo building didn’t realize their mistake until it was only two months away from completion.…

Ok, I know that picture may give you the “willies.” It sure does give them to me! This is an Anaconda and, according to National Geographic, these snakes can grow to a weight of 550 pounds! Wow! Now you know why I’m not ready to go on the mission trip down the Amazon! Someone in the Peace Corps once…

While most people would admit they would not be ready for a large scale emergency, a growing number of people are concerned about potential disasters and are making preparations. This new group of self-sufficient people call themselves “preppers.” “Preppers” want to be prepared for any possibility, including…

| | Years ago, a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast.He constantly advertised for hired hands. Most people werereluctant to work on farms along the Atlantic. They dreaded theawful storms that raged across the Atlantic, wreaking havoc on the buildings and crops.As the farmer interviewed applicants…

A man and his wife are sitting in the living room and he says to her, "Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state dependent on some machine. If that ever happens, just pull the plug." His wife gets up and unplugs the TV.

Advanced Reservations Required I was shocked by the news that "Flo-Jo," Florence Griffith Joyner died of a heart seizure on September 21, 1998 at the age of 38. Just ten years before, at the 1988 Olympic Games at Seoul, Korea, she won the gold medal in the 100 and 200 meter race and in the 4x100 meter…

PREPARATION In their book, The Sacred Romance, Curtis & Eldredge write, “The life of the heart is a place of great mystery. Yet we have many expressions to help us express this flame of the human soul. We describe a person without compassion as “heartless,” and we urge him or her to “have a heart.” Our…

“To every man there comes in his lifetime that special moment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered a chance to do a very special thing, unique to him and fitted to his talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the work which would be his finest…

Jeff’s story is a powerful one of a transformed life, but it is more than that. It shows how far God can reach to save a soul. It shows what God may do in the life of a person like me to prepare him for God’s work. A younger version of me could not have dealt with Jeffrey Dahmer. God was working in my…

The Barmen Declaration, 1934, was a call to resistance against the theological claims of the Nazi state. Almost immediately after Hitler's seizure of power in 1933, Protestant Christians faced pressure to "aryanize" the Church, expel Jewish Christians from the ordained ministry and adopt the Nazi "Führer…

I believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God; that He is the Lord of life; that He continues to say to us: “Come, follow Me… I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father but by Me. Affirmation of Faith spoken/repeated weekly by the Congregation at First Christian…

LeRoy Lawson Dr. Joe Harding’s wonderful story of the man who finally decided to ask his boss for a raise deserves repeating. That fateful morning he told his wife what he had determined to do. She agreed that he should make the request. All day he was apprehensive. Finally, late in the afternoon he…