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New evidence is sometimes brought into court that completely changes the aspect of the case. If you have been on a jury, you would not like to tell your fellow jurors how many times you have changed your mind while you have heard the evidence. If you have listened attentively, I expect you have had half…

2 Corintios 5:17 (RVR60) 17De modo que si alguno está en Cristo, nueva criatura es; las cosas viejas pasaron; he aquí todas son hechas nuevas.

Billy Joe Shaver wrote country music for the superstars, including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Elvis Presley, and Willie Nelson. All was not well with Billy Joe though. For years he struggled with his addiction to drugs and alcohols. By his own testimony, that addiction ended after he found Jesus Christ.…

In 97 years, a person makes a lot of health decisions, some that he may live to regret. Rowena Donaldson just turned 97. He says he is often reminded about healthy choices he has made over those years. One of the biggest he says he made in December 1952, when he read an article in the Reader’s Digest…

According Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.” Obviously, the question of our identity remains an important one. And even if one doesn’t create a fake profile, the issue of how we ultimate define ourselves remains an important…

During the heated rhetoric, protests, and counter demonstrations on their University Campus, the University of California at Berkeley set up a tent for the two sides to communicate and find common ground. During one session, passions began to run high until a fistfight broke out and almost knocked over…

Steven Robles was swimming at one of California’s most popular beaches when he was attacked by a great white shark. Robles could see the face of the 7-foot-long animal as it chomped down on his torso. “I thought this was it.” In panic, he could look right into the shark’s eyes as he pulled hard on the…

Gary Paxton wrote over 2,000 songs. The two best-known songs from the 1950’s were “Alley-Oop” and “Monster Mash.” All the time he was writing he struggled with a tumultuous personal life. He made and lost a fortune, overcame addiction, and was once gravely wounded when a disgruntled singer hired hit…

Many aged persons have either forgotten their birthdays or have lost the birth certificate and cannot tell exactly how old they are; but that does not at all prove that they are not alive. So your not knowing precisely when you were converted is no evidence that you are not saved.

In his weekly editorial for the magazine, The Week, William Falk tells about a show on the Food Network called Restaurant Impossible. In each episode of the program, chef and restaurateur Robert Irvine accepts an invitation to revive a dying family restaurant somewhere in Smalltown, America. Irvine critiques…

When Clay Lein began studying electrical engineering in college, he decided that he didn’t need his faith in God anymore. He believed his training told him to be skeptical and to demand evidence. Without evidence, Clay knew could find no reason to include God in his busy life. He would go to church to…

Three weeks into the 2013 New Year, 33% of Americans admitted they’ve already broken or cheated on their New Year’s resolutions. This demonstrates the near impossibility of turning over a new leaf. Making a life change that puts one on a heavenward path is especially tough. In fact, it is impossible.…

When Angus T. Jones found Jesus Christ as his Savior he was convicted about the television program in which he is a star. He has asked people to quit watching the show, Two and a Half Men. He claims it is a smutty sitcom and conflicts with Christian values. Jones pleaded, “Please stop watching Two and…

Manny “Pac Man” Pacquiao is a tremendous boxer but he was a lousy person and a worse husband. He drank too much, he gambled, and perhaps worst of all, he cheated on his wife. Just a few months ago his personal life was in shambles. “He was immersed in the vices of celebrity—the drinking, the gambling,…

Josh Hamilton, centerfielder for the Texas Rangers, has an opportunity to win the American League Triple Crown. He is leading the league in Home Runs, Runs Batted In, and Batting Average. Just a few years ago this seemed very improbable. Josh was always a baseball talent, but he was also a drug and alcohol…

Liz Murray’s drug-addicted parents raised her and her sister in poverty in New York—really raised isn’t the right word, they had to care for themselves. Her father was an intelligent man, quite gifted, but lived a diminished life because of the drugs. Her mother suffered from mental illness along with…

In Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, David Platt writes, “Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and through us, enabling us to accomplish for his glory what we could never imagine in our own strength.…

Louie Zamperini was an Olympic class athlete, running in the 1936 Berlin games as a youngster. He was looking forward to the 1940 Olympics, first scheduled for Tokyo, then Finland, and finally cancelled completely because of World War II. His story of crashing, surviving the ocean only to be captured…

In Forgotten God: Reversing our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit, Francis Chan writes, “If it’s true that the spirit of God dwells in us and that our bodies are the Holy Spirit’s temple, then shouldn’t there be a huge difference between the person who has the Spirit of God living inside of him or her…

Sociologist Robert Woodson, President of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise and author of a new book, The Triumph of Joseph: How Community Healers Are Reviving our Streets and Neighborhoods, speaks to need for transformation. “If I’m killing myself, I do not need to be rehabilitated. I need to be…

Every breath you are given is a gift from God. Science has long debated the origins of human life. Some scientists point to nature as an example of the evolution of our planet, while other scientists point to nature as obvious proof of a divine Being, a supreme Creator. One evolutionist who spent years…

Ten after being the number 3 draft pick in the NFL draft, Akili has a new purpose and is a new man. The money, the lifestyle, the publicity, and the pressure combined to crush him. Smith never became even a shadow of his promise. Today he has put his life back together, recommitting his life to the Lord.…

How are we going to get the life that has no lust, no self-interest, no sensitiveness to pokes, the love that is not provoked, that thinketh no evil, that is always kind? The only way is by allowing not a bit of the old life to be left, but only simple perfect trust in God, such trust that we no longer…

What happened to you when YOU received Jesus? Do you remember? A man named Sanger said, "When I received Jesus - its like I swallowed the sunshine." David Livingstone, the great missionary, said "When I first trusted Christ I felt like I was instantly healed of COLORBLINDNESS." Receiving Jesus means…

There is a story of a beggar who was sitting across the street from an artist's studio. The artist saw him and thought he would make an interesting portrait study so from a distance he painted the defeated man whose shoulders drooped, and whose eyes were downcast and sad. When he was finished, he took…