A favorite story that Brother B. F. Hall loved to tell happened among the Cherokee Indians of North Alabama. A Methodist circuit rider visited the Indian community in the Spring of 1825 to distribute Testaments among them. A young Indian received a Bible and proceeded to read it with diligence.…
A holy man was engaged in his morning meditation under a tree whose roots stretched out over the riverbank. During his meditation, he noticed that the river was rising, and a scorpion caught in the roots was about to drown. He crawled out on the roots and reached down to…
Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse, of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, had a gift for putting things in brief format. I want to share with you such a statement he would use on occasion. We have a relationship that can never be changed: we are children of the Most High. We…
6 out of 10 Americans believe Satan is only a symbol and not real 47% of Christians believe the same thing 1 out of 4 Christians believe it doesn’t matter what religion you are because all of them are the same and they all lead to God 31% of Christians…
During a British conference on comparative religions, experts from around the world were discussing whether anyone’s belief was unique to the Christian faith. They began eliminating possibilities. Incarnation? Other religions had different versions of gods appearing in human form. Resurrection? Again, other religions had accounts of return from death. The…
William Wilberforce (1759-1833), who had led a dissipated life in the company of such distinguished persons as the younger Pitt, was converted through Isaac Milner’s efforts. He then dedicated his life to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. In 1772, a court decision made the ownership of slaves…
I have an elderly acquaintance of about eighty, who has lived a life of unbroken selfishness and self-admiration from the earliest years and is, more or less, I regret to say, one of the happiest men I know. From the moral point of view, it is very difficult! As you…
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: To return love for hate, to include the excluded and to say “I was wrong.”
While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It was perfectly dry in spite of the fact that it had been immersed in water for centuries. The same is true of many people in…
G.K. Chesterton once said, “Christianity has not been tried and found empty… it has been found difficult and left untried.“
