By bestselling author (of 32 books) and San Antonio pastor Max Lucado (above). Â This piece was first posted on his blog February 24, 2016, and the expanded version below was published two days later by the Washington Post. Â In a 2004 article, Christianity Today called Lucado “America’s Pastor,” pointing to his broad appeal to mainstream […]
1061) Just Be Decent! Read More »
From a sermon by Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969), former pastor at New York’s Riverside Church: Â Â Â How easy it is to grow bitter about life! Â Just as on an autumn day walking through a rough country field and coming back covered with nettles, how easy it is to walk through life and accumulate stings!
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 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 for that soul than bearing the hardships that sometimes accompany honesty.  (From The Book of Virtues, ed. by William Bennett, 1993, pages 636-7). ———————————-  Â
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Above: Dr. Bennet Omalu  (1968- ) ———————– By John Stonestreet, January 8, 2016 at: http://www.breakpoint.org    America’s favorite sport can be brutal.  A Christian doctor’s quest to save football players’ lives is the subject of a moving new film.    Thirteen years ago, Dr. Bennet Omalu, a pathologist working at the Alleghany County
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By James Dobson in Nightlight: A Devotional for Couples, 2000, page 214: Â Â Â While standing in line at a grocery store checkout a few years ago, I noticed that the elderly woman in front of me had filled her cart with more food than she could pay for. Â “I just don’t understand where my
894) Shocking With Kindness Read More »
   Jim lived down the hall from me in my first year in college.  It wasn’t long before everyone in the small dormitory knew each other, so everyone knew who Jim was; but nobody knew him very well.  He was a small guy and looked like he was about fourteen years old.  He was
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   The 2007 movie The Ultimate Gift begins with the funeral of a wealthy Texas oilman.  The scene then shifts to an attorney’s office where the man’s will is being read.  It is clear this family does not get along, they do not care about each other, and they obviously did not love their
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(continued…) Mark 12:41-44:  Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury.  Many rich people threw in large amounts.  But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny.  Calling his disciples
783) Seeing Others as Jesus Sees Them (part two) Read More »
Abraham Lincoln in 1858, age 49    Abraham Lincoln and a friend were talking about a third person that both knew, but neither was fond of.  Lincoln said, with his usual wisdom and kindness, “I do not like that man. I must get to know him better.” That is a profound and thought-provoking statement;
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   Many words of wisdom speak of anger as something bad.  “Anger is a bad counselor,” says an old French proverb.  An African proverb says, “Anger is like a stone cast into a wasp’s nest,” and, says another, “Anger punishes itself.”  Yet another says, “A man who acts in anger is angry with himself when he
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