Tuesday, April 16, 2024 How Will the Church Be Lighted? Luke 14:25-35 Several centuries ago in a mountain village in Europe, a wealthy nobleman wondered what legacy he should leave to his townspeople. He made a good decision. He decided to build them a church. No one was permitted to see the plans or the… Read More »
Monday 15 April 2023
Monday, April 15, 2024 Love for Neighbor Mark 12:28-34 An ancient rabbi once asked his pupils how they could tell when the night had ended and the day was on its way back. “When you see an animal in the distance and can tell what kind of animal it is” answered one pupil. “No” replied… Read More »
Sunday 14 April 2024
Sunday, April 14, 2024 Divine Humility John 1:6-8, 19-28 Two hundred 40 years ago there was a man named John, a preacher of extraordinary power and influence in England and America. We know John Wesley as the founder of the Methodism. Surprisingly, however, Wesley was not the most popular preacher of his day. A man… Read More »
Saturday 13 April 2024
Saturday, April 13, 2024 Defining Love Matthew 22:34-46 What does the word Love mean today? How do we define it? In answer to my question, I am going to use the results of a question-and-answer session held by a group of professional people with a bunch of 4 to 8-year old’s, where they asked them,… Read More »
Friday 12 April 2024
Friday, April 12, 2024 Bright and Loud: What Do You Miss? Matthew 6:25-34 A panel of students at one university was discussing what it’s like to be a young person today. They talked of many things – their work, their fears, their ambitions. And then the moderator asked them: “What does it take to get… Read More »
Thursday 11 April 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024 God’s Kind of Revenge John 1:29-42 A young soldier was utterly humiliated by his senior officer. The officer had gone beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior in disciplining the young soldier and knew it, so he said nothing as the younger man said through clenched teeth, “I’ll make you regret this… Read More »
Wednesday 10 April 2024
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 Matthew 25:31-46 Alex Haley, the author of Roots tells the story of how his father had his life changed by a simple act of kindness: He was the youngest of eight children, living as a sharecropping family. Everyone in the family was needed to help with the crops. After several years… Read More »
Tuesday 9 April 2024
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 The Persons of The Robe E. Stanley Jones once told a story about a custom of the people on the Island of Formosa hundreds of years ago to offer human sacrifices. A kindly emperor, however, by the name of Goho, changed all that. According to his law, only animals, not humans,… Read More »
Monday 8 April 2024
Monday, April 8, 2024 The Release I Long For In God’s Smuggler, Brother Andrew tells in the first couple of chapters the story of his early life one section of which dealt with his “hell-bent-for-leather” days in the Dutch army in Indonesia. While serving in that area, fighting against Sukarno in the late 1940s he… Read More »
Sunday 7 April 2024
Sunday, April 7, 2024 Celebrate! Matthew 28:1-1, John 20:1-18 There is an old, historic village in Salem, North Carolina. Every Easter morning, in the early hours of this day, thousands of people, many of them tourists who have come especially for this event, make their way towards the courtyard in front of a 200-year-old church,… Read More »
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