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When you come to your table you find a variety there. Sometimes there is one dish upon it, and sometimes another, but you are never at all surprised to find the bread there every time. And perhaps we might add that there would be a deficiency if there were not salt there every time too. So there are…

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…

NASA has plans for private citizens to spend up to 30 days in the International Space Station. It might be a little expensive for most of us, $35,000 per night. And that doesn’t include the trip to get there. That will add another $52 million dollars to the trip. That is quite the fee just to get out…

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…

Gareth Clark is an army veteran who lives in northern England. Over the last two years he has saved the lives of four people. At a gas station, he resuscitated a heart attack victim. He stopped a suicidal woman from jumping from an overpass. He has saved two drowning people from the same spot at a local…

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.

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…

New Orleans pastor, Kenneth Green was preaching at his church, Greater Saint Mary Baptist Church in the Algiers community. In his Sunday morning sermon Pastor Green declared “If the Lord called me now I’m ready to go.” According to a congregant present at the time, he then wiped his face, took a swallow…

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…

It has been said that your reactions are a better indicator of what you really believe than your actions. Franklin Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham and Fox News Channel host Greta Van Susteren recently found out how true that statement really is. Graham, Van Susteren, and a group of people…

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…

One of the chief apologetic arguments that atheism has against God involves suffering. How can an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, beneficent God allow innocent people to experience suffering. This is especially true for children. The following text is from the internet. It is the transcription of…

“Do the crime and pay someone else do the time” was the Headline in Sydney’s newspapers. In May 2009, a wealthy 20-year-old was drag-racing through the city streets of Hangzhou, China, when his Mitsubishi struck and killed a pedestrian at a crossing. This crime can be the death penalty for some. When…

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.…