In ‘The Case for Christ,’ former Chicago Tribune journalist Lee Strobel, writes: For much of my life I was a skeptic. In fact, I considered myself an atheist. To me, there was far too much evidence that God was merely a product of wishful thinking, of ancient mythology, or primitive superstition. How could there be …
Read MoreHOW FINDING HOPE IN LIFE’S GREATEST STRUGGLES SUSTAINS US
Dan Schmidt writes in Unexpected Wisdom: Tragically, hope is a weak word these days meaning little more than what we feel… What of the one who has just learned of cancer in his child, or whose parents have developed a wasting disease, or whose job has abruptly and callously been terminated? …when physical troubles and …
Read MoreHOW POSITIVE RESPONSE TO CORRECTION BRINGS GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT
The book What My Parents Did Right is the testimony of 50 known leaders from an earlier generation who explained the impact that their parents had upon their lives. Dr. Robert Webber, who wrote extensively on worship, shared the impact his father had upon his life. He relates one such incident that shaped his life. …
Read MoreHOW TO LIVE A HOLY LIFE IN A CONTAMINATED SOCIETY
What impedes our spiritual life from flourishing and growing? With whom should we associate or disengage from? To what degree should we relate to the society around us? What dangers do we need to guard our minds against regarding the values of a contaminated society? What may be even more subtle is watching out for …
Read MoreHOW TO RESPOND POSITIVELY TO LIFE’S MOST PAINFUL MOMENTS
Erwin Lutzer, former Pastor of Moody Memorial Church, received a letter from a radio listener years ago, in which he wrote: I am a man, thirty-one years of age and divorced, though I fought the divorce bitterly. I feel bad because I have no hope for the future. Often, I go home from church and …
Read MoreLOVES AUTHENTIC NATURE AND HOW ITS EXPRESSED
In his book Improving Your Serve: The Art of Unselfish Living, Charles Swindoll shares the story of an interview he had with a young man seeking a position as pastoral intern. This intern candidate related the following story: Late one spring he was praying about having a significant ministry the following summer. …Summer arrived, still …
Read MoreHOW TO EXPERIENCE A NEW BEGINNING IN YOUR LIFE
HOW TO EXPERIENCE A NEW BEGINNING IN YOUR LIFE Best-selling author Laura Hillenbrand, while researching for her book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend, found a 1938 clip of a young running phenomenon named Louie Zamperini. She jotted his name down in her Seabiscuit research notebook. Later, I came across Louie’s name again, and this time I …
Read MoreHOW TO LIVE A TRANSFORMED AND INFLUENTIAL LIFE
One of my instructors in seminary, Dr. George Sweeting, shared how God began to do a powerful work in his life. As a child, he had made a profession of faith in Christ. But like many others, he was self-centered, and often insensitive to the teaching of Scripture. Ego still ruled my life. I had …
Read MoreBETWEEN DEATH AND ETERNITY, WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS?
[Some say] that death ought not to be final, that there ought to be a second chance. I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given. But a master [teacher] often knows, when boys and parents do not, that it is really useless to send a boy in …
Read MoreREVEALING GOD’S GLORY THROUGH A TRANSFORMING LIFE
In his book, the Roots of Endurance, John Piper, shared some of the challenges facing Charles Simeon (1759-1836). He was the pastor of Trinity Church in Cambridge, England. I heard that he stayed in the same church as pastor for fifty-four years and that in the first twelve years there was so much opposition from …
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