1054) No Bitter Root
From a sermon by Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969), former pastor at New York's Riverside Church: How easy it is to grow bitter about life! Just as on an…
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1054) No Bitter Root
1053) Take Time for Your Soul
By Alvin Rogness, The Word for Every Day, page 15, Augsburg Publishing House, 1981. I hadn't seen him in two years. During the years I had lived in…
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1053) Take Time for Your Soul
1052) When God Punishes a People
Martin Luther (1483-1546) Time magazine cover, March 24, 1967 ------------------------------------- "When God wills to punish a people or a kingdom, he takes away from it the good and…
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1052) When God Punishes a People
1051) The Black Dot
One day, a professor entered the classroom and told his students he had a surprise test for them. They all waited anxiously for the exam to begin. The…
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1051) The Black Dot
1050) Death Row Conversion
Posted at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution website on Saturday, March 30, 2013, by Shelia M. Poole; with additional notes from and article posted as www.cbn.com -------------------------------- Billy Neal Moore spent 16 years on…
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1050) Death Row Conversion
1049) Don’t Miss This Movie
---------------------------------- By Eric Metaxas at: www.breakpoint.org (February 19, 2016) ----------------------------------- “Ben Hur,” “The Robe,” “The Ten Commandments,” “Quo Vadis?”—who can forget the golden age of biblical films? But…
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1049) Don’t Miss This Movie
1048) How Did Dogs Get So Smart?
------------- A Canine's Understanding of Physics By John R. Erickson posted at www.worldmag.com February 20, 2016 ---------------------------- In high school I didn’t do well in math and science.…
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1048) How Did Dogs Get So Smart?
1047) Chosen (b)
(...continued) There are many other times this sort of thing happens. In Numbers 10 Moses is leading the Jews out of slavery into the promised land. In the…
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1047) Chosen (b)
1046) Chosen (a)
British journalist William Ewer (1885-1977) once wrote a silly, but profound little poem using only eight words: How odd Of God To choose The Jews. …
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1046) Chosen (a)
1045) “I’d Rather Starve”
As this folktale from Greece points out, the virtuous soul not only loves truth for its own sake, but it also loathes the actions of falsehood. Deceit is far more painful…
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1045) “I’d Rather Starve”