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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…

According to a new study of 1,500 Americans conducted by work management platform Wrike, more than 40 percent of millennials say that they would prefer to work in an environment where colleagues swear. Most of those believe that cursing can help strengthen a team. Not surprising then that about two-thirds…

While human life expectancy has increased significantly since the nineteenth century, a new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, indicates that there is a limit to human lifespan. “Our results strongly suggest that the maximum lifespan of humans is fixed and subject to natural…

Do you want to conquer envy and covetousness? According to a study from Denmark’s Happiness Research Institute, maybe you could give up Facebook. The study found that people who gave up Facebook for just one week reported suffering less envy and being “more satisfied with their lives” than those who…

Maybe there will always be people living in poverty, even in a country surrounded by wealth and opportunity. But Karin McQuillan explains the quickest way out of poverty. “We don’t need a $200 million dollar committee. The Census Bureau already has the figures. The cure for poverty is within everyone’s…

In his book, Do Fathers Matter? What Science is Telling Us About the Parent We’ve Overlooked Paul Raeburn says that “the presence of a father apparently reduces the chances that a child will be born prematurely or die in infancy. Dads’ penchant for roughhousing may aid the development of children’s intelligence.…

When Mary Jane Ponten, who has cerebral palsy, first searched for Bible study resources for people with intellectual disabilities, she was surprised to learn that there was nothing specifically for her. Rather than be upset, she decided to write the kind of material they need to understand the Bible.…

A new study has found that self-control can be contagious. The study conducted in a laboratory setting, found that watching or even thinking about someone with good self-control makes others more likely to show the same restraint. The study also found the opposite to be true. A person with poor self-control…

Sherlock Holmes, speaking to Watson on the prowess of his deductive skills, said: “You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room.” “Frequently.” “How often?” “Well, some hundreds of times.” “Then how…

It is said that a famous writer once studied medicine and was good at dissecting corpses but did not care to work with living people. There are those who enjoy theology and dry doctrine and who care nothing for living experience. That makes a poor preacher. Pepper 'n Salt, by Vance Havner, page 80

Once solitude has done its work, the key to this progression is study. It s in study that we place our minds fully upon God and his kingdom. And study is brought to its natural completion in the worship of God. Source: Divine Conspiracy pg 361 / Aug 15, 2007

If you are a preacher or teacher with only an average IQ, you must study all the more. A preacher in Pennsylvania was noted as an expert fox hunter. An old Quaker said to him one day, “If I were a fox, I would hide me where thee could not find me.” “And where is that?” inquired the preacher. “In thy…

I know many people who profess serious allegiance to Jesus and claim him as their Savior but who, unfortunately, simply will not take these scriptures into their soul and body and utilize them as indicated. The result, I have to say with sadness, is that they continue to recycle their failures and make…

*“I’m Beginning to Understand” In Steven Spielberg’s film about a slave ship called Amistad, the Africans revolt and are subsequently imprisoned. The African prisoners are given a Bible with pictures in it by the abolitionists. The Africans had no idea what the book was, and they could not read in their…

Here are some amazing statistics: After the Battle of Gettysburg, provost marshals collected 27,514 muskets which had been abandoned on the field during the fight. It was discovered that 24,000 of them were loaded, 12,000 contained 2 charges each; 6,000 were charged with 3 to 10 loads each; and one musket…

"The New Testament lies hidden in the Old, and the Old Testament is unveiled in the New." - Augustine, A.D. 354-430

"For years I have made it a very careful and studied rule never to look at a commentary on a text, until I have spent time on the text alone. Get down and sweat over the text yourself. That is my method. . . . I once heard Dr W.J. Dawson say: "Half the bad theology in the world is due to suppressed perspiration."…

A Sunday school teacher decided to have her young class memorize one of the most quoted passages in the Bible: Psalm 23. She gave the youngsters a month to learn the chapter. Little Rick was excited about the task, but he just couldn't remember the Psalm. After much practice, he could barely get past…