Center on God
Make all of life God-saturated. Make the Bible the most important book in your home and something the family reads everyday together. Pray with them and for them daily. Youth need to see the Word of God “fleshed out” in your life.
Care
This is “agape” love “that is unconditional, sacrificial, and unshakable.” We all need to …
When H. B. Macartney, an Australian pastor, visited Hudson Taylor in China, he was amazed at the missionary’s serenity in spite of his many burdens and his busy schedule. Macartney finally mustered up the courage to say, “You are occupied with millions, I with tens. Your letters are pressingly important, mine of comparatively little value. Yet I am worried and …
Bob Richards, the former pole-vault champion, shares a moving story about a skinny young boy who loved football with all his heart.
Practice after practice, he eagerly gave everything he had. But being half the size of the other boys, he got absolutely nowhere.
At all the games, this hopeful athlete sat on the bench and hardly ever played.
This …
If you were to describe your life as a fragrance to the world, what would it be? Why?
Each of these scents probably created images in your mind associated with the smell. One …
Back before the collapse of communism the government of Poland issued an order that all crucifixes were to be removed from classroom walls, just as they had been banned in factories, hospitals, and other public institutions. Many church leaders protested stirring waves of anger and resentment all across Poland.
Ultimately the government relented, insisting that the law remain on the …
(Introduction)
In kneeling position, fold hands in prayer and bow heads.
Our Father
Raise eyes upward.
Which art in Heaven
Raise arms straight upward, separating them on the word “heaven.”
Hallowed be Thy Name
Bring hands before face, then bend forward in a low bow with arms extended forward.
Thy Kingdom come
Rise to a straight kneeling position – arms …
I leave aside my shoes
– my ambitions,
undo my watch
– my timetable,
take off my glasses
– my views,
unclip my pen
– my work,
put down my keys
– my security,
to be alone with You,
the only true God.
After being with You,
I take up my shoes
to walk in Your ways,
strap on my …
There is a vivid picture of Christ’s sacrifice for sin in Mark Twain’s novel, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
The story tells the adventures of an ordinary man (the Connecticut Yankee) from the 19th century, who is transported back to the medieval world of King Arthur. At one point he convinces King Arthur to dress like a peasant …
There were only 24 hours in a day, then, as now.
But before he died in 1826, he:
While walking in a toy store,
The day before today……
I overheard a crayon box,
With many things to say.
“I don’t like Red!” said Yellow,
And Green said, “Nor do I!
And no one here likes Orange,
But no one knows just why.”
“We are a box of crayons
That doesn’t get along.”
Said Blue to all the others,…