A while back an old friend told me he didn’t go to church anymore. He said, “It’s the same old thing: ‘things are bad now,’ the preacher always says, ‘but someday Jesus will return and then everything will be better.’ I’ve heard it all before.” My friend knows I am a […]
3078) Advent… Again Read More »
The story of Stanley Tam (1916-2023), compiled from articles by Randy Alcorn at http://www.epm.org (6-16-21) and Todd Harper at http://www.ncfgiving.com (5-16-23). ————————— In 1934, as a young door-to-door salesman, Stanley Tam met a farmer’s wife who told him about Jesus. Six weeks later, while in a church, he placed his faith in Christ.
3067) God in the Plastics Business Read More »
By Randy Alcorn, from his book The Grace and Truth Paradox and posted November 10, 2025 on his website at: http://www.epm.org ********************************* Many evangelical Christians are speaking grace without truth, while others are speaking truth without grace. But Scripture tells us this about Jesus: “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,
3061) Grace AND Truth Read More »
I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say they didn’t like giving money to overseas missions, because, “How do we know the money gets there?” Here’s how I know. When I was a child in Sunday School, our mission offerings went to the African nation of
3060) Does the Money Really Get There? Read More »
Less than 25 years after Muslim terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people on 9/11, New York City, home of “ground zero,” just elected a Muslim as its next mayor. Some European cities are already majority Muslim, so what does this mean for America? Speaker and author Abdu Murray (pictured above) takes a closer look at Islam
3056) The Challenge of Islam Read More »
Painting above: Paul and the Jailer ******************************* (…continued) In his book Radical Son, David Horowitz confessed his sins to the whole world– but how about to God? Did Horowitz ever pray that prayer of the tax collector, “God be merciful to me a sinner?” It doesn’t look like he did. Horowitz
3040) Open Your Heart (3/3) Read More »
Above: Scrubwoman, 1937 pencil drawing by Bent Franklin Larsen (1882 – 1970) ——————– By Patty McGarvey posted at www.alliance.org *********************************** “I vas called to scrub und preach. I vas a borned preacher, und as I vas poor, I learned to vork. I do good vork, so people vants me; but if they haf me, they must haf
3026) Sophie the Scrubwoman Read More »
Billy Graham preached the Gospel face-to-face to more people than any other individual in history. In sixty-eight years of large stadium evangelistic campaigns, he preached to over 200 million people. With today’s internet media opportunities, these types of large stadium revival meetings are seldom done anymore. Thus, no one individual will ever again
3014) America’s Pastor Read More »
Image above: Flathead delegation in Washington, D.C. with interpreter, 1884 (men from the same tribe, but many years after the story told here). ************************** From: The Clergy of America: Anecdotes, 1869, pp. 69-71. The following narrative was given by a gentleman of the United States, when on a visit to England, and was published in
2971) Looking for the Great Spirit Read More »
From the Standing Strong Through the Storm daily devotion, August 30, 2018, at: http://www.oopendoorsusa.org ***************************** Prior to her Christian husband being released from prison in Iran, Maheen, feared that she might be arrested too. So she seriously prayed, “Dear Lord, I am not ready to go to a solitary confinement because of my Christian faith. It
2962) “You Can’t Evangelize Me” Read More »
