In regard to this great book (the Bible), I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to men. All the good the Savior gave to…
From John Ploughman’s Talks: Plain Advice for Plain People, by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892), English preacher and author, 1869. ------------------------------------------------ When we are injured, we are bound as Christians…
An experience Peter Marshall (1902-1949), the great Scottish preacher, related during his ministry, from A Man Called Peter, by Catherine Marshall, pp. 230-231, 272-273: On Sunday morning, December 7,…
The Raising of Lazarus, Rembrandt, approx. 1630 From my sermon at the funeral of my mother-in-law, November 5, 2010. The sermon text is John 11:1-44. John chapter 11…
By Johann Gerhard (1582-1637), a German Lutheran pastor and professor of theology. He wrote dozens of books, including Sacred Meditations, a collection of 51 meditations published in 1606. This piece…
Christ Healing the Blind Man, Eustache Le Sueur, 1652 (...continued) Mark 10:46-52 tells the story of Jesus healing a blind man. The man’s name is Bartimaeus,…
Manuel is the pastor of several small, very poor congregations in rural Honduras, the second poorest nation in the Western hemisphere. Todd is the pastor of a large…
Though BUT is a simple and common word, it is one of the most wonderful words in the Bible. As you remember from your grammar lessons in school the…
Seventy years ago this month, on the morning of June 6, 1944, Allied forces led by the Americans, invaded Northern France in the biggest military operation in history.…
By Frederick Buechner in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith, (HarperOne, 2004). To have grandchildren is not only to be given something, but to be…