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Wednesday’s Thanksgiving Thought: Why I Am Grateful For What I Never Got
Families will gather around tables this week and briefly mention the many blessings for which they are grateful to God. For most of us the...
Tuesday’s Thanksgiving Thought: “God’s Greatest Provision”
Over the last few days we have been building a list in our home. We live by lists! Grocery lists, to do lists, special event...
Monday’s Thanksgiving Thought
Gratitude begins vertical and becomes horizontal. As we offer thanks to the Source of every good gift, we are reminded of the many channels that...
My Morning Meditation
Christ's greatest work was not done in a Temple or a synagogue. It was not accomplished through discussion with religious leaders or debate with skeptics....
Going the Second Mile
It doesn't mean much to us, but to the crowd Christ was speaking to it was radical, revolutionary, even ridiculous. "And whosoever shall compel thee...
A Lesson From A Student
A few days ago I was talking with a school teacher who has a number of special education children in her class. As we spoke...
Are You In A Holding Pattern?
There are few things more frustrating than the pilot's announcement that your flight is in a holding pattern! How long? Why? What is the problem?...
A Word to Younger Preachers
A Word to Younger Preachers Recently a precious friend introduced me as "a young preacher." I love those words. I am now at the age...
What I Am Reading (And Re-Reading)
Books become friends. They instruct and inspire. As my wife will tell you, there are a lot of books around our home! At any given...
30 Days of Thanksgiving
Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. used to say, "When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart he is well-nigh gone." There is no way...
10 Ways to Begin Bringing Others to Jesus
10 Ways to Begin Bringing Others to Jesus Have you ever had the joy of sharing Christ with someone and seeing that person come to...
A New Song – An Eternal Message
Frequently in my sermons I tell the story of some great Christian hymn. The background to a song often opens up the message in a...
Please Pray for These November Meetings
This is my favorite season of the year and a busy season of ministry. God has been faithful and we are seeing Him work in...
5 Prayers of the Evangelist
The service had just ended and an older woman whom I did not know came to speak to me. She told me that she prays...
A Simple Principle That Has Had A Profound Effect On My Life
Dr. Frank Sells was one of my favorite Bible teachers. I can see him now, sitting on the platform, in his own conversational way showing...
Suicide is More Than A Statistic
Suicide is up 300% from my father's generation. Over the last few months I have read an alarming number of articles on the suicide rate...