I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. Romans 8:18 During the past month I have attended two funerals. I have never seen two more opposite situations. People throughout the world bury their dead ritualistically and sometimes the rituals …
I have always had a hard time understanding how one went about introducing people to my faith and beliefs in such a way that there might be an acceptance, or at least the hope of not meeting with outright rejection. There have been some notable disasters which this amateur evangelist …
Time after time, history has been shaped by prayer. Queen Mary said she feared the prayers of John Knox more than all the armies of Scotland. John Wesley’s prayers brought revival to England, sparing them the horrors of the French Revolution. Revival spread throughout the American colonies when Jonathan Edwards …
A friend suggested an easy solution to the deer problem. Every time you cut your hair, wrap it in pantyhose and hang a little from the tree. It works. Really. The deer avoid the tree. And eat your shrubs. Several years after high school, my friend and his new bride …
