1407) I’m Not Perfect, You Know
In Matthew 5:48 Jesus says, "Be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect." How are you doing with that? In the piece that follows, Philip Yancey…
In Matthew 5:48 Jesus says, "Be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect." How are you doing with that? In the piece that follows, Philip Yancey…
From The Clergy of America: Anecdotes, 1869, pages 169-170 A sermon illustration from a New England minister in the 1700’s. -------------------------- A clergyman sitting in his…
"What do you mean it is going to take forty-five seconds to cook in the micro-wave? I want it now!" --Homer Simpson ---------------- (...continued) 'Instant gratification’ is what…
---------------------- A young woman in Los Angeles wrote her mother in North Dakota the following letter: Dear Mom, I know you haven’t heard from me for…
By Lutheran pastor David G. Johnson in The Road Once Traveled, 1991, pages 67-71 The three of us, Bob, John, and I, were so intent on following a…
The New Testament book of James has been a source of controversy ever since it was written almost 20 centuries ago. Martin Luther, for example, did not like…
As we begin another year, Philip Yancey reminds us: Grace hasn’t vanished. Posted January 15, 2015, at: www.christianitytoday.com After listening to several dark reviews of 2014; recapped news…
Best selling author and pastor Rick Warren was once invited to speak an entire population of a large prison. He had two hours to speak, but it was…
(continued...) “If you don’t straighten out, Jimmy, God will deal with you,” Grandma Klobuchar would always say. Many years later, after grandma was long dead and ‘Little Jimmy’…
Jim Klobuchar was a newspaper columnist for the Minneapolis Tribune from the mid-1960’s to the late 1990’s. He is now 85 years old, retired, and living in the…