LISTEN TO THE DEVOTIONAL “Faith,” alleged the agnostic Samuel Clemens, also known as Mark Twain, “is believing what you know isn’t true but wish it were.” George Mueller would not have agreed. And who is George Mueller? In the event that name doesn’t register,...
LISTEN TO THE DEVOTIONAL Planet Earth, with its diameter of 7,926 miles, rests basically on nothing. Yet the earth races along its elliptical orbit around the sun in exactly three‑hundred sixty‑five and a quarter days. Isaac Newton defined this force in his...
LISTEN TO THE DEVOTIONAL Cell phones are wonderful when they work, but when you are in an area where your signal is breaking up, it can be frustrating. You hear the person’s voice fading in and out, and you keep talking, hoping that he or she is listening....
LISTEN TO THE DEVOTIONAL The English word “misery” comes from a Greek word miseo which is translated “to hate.” Yes, we know what hatred is, and with all due respects to what psychologists can do, I’ve never met anyone whose heart was filled with hatred for...
LISTEN TO THE DEVOTIONAL “I really need that!” How many times have you said those words even this week? Or perhaps it was your eight-year old who had been impressed with the commercials on TV who says, “I really need it, Dad!” And, of course, we quickly think...
LISTEN TO THE DEVOTIONAL When hard times come, everyone looks for a scapegoat: blame tough times on the economy, or the government, or a mate whose use of credit cards has been less than frugal. Whether it is an organization, a church, a business, or a family, when...
LISTEN TO THE DEVOTIONAL The press called it, “Sunday a Hero, Monday a Bum!” It is the strange story of a man who risked his life one day to save an eleven-year-old boy from certain death, his clothing aflame, while at least fifty people stood by and did nothing; and...
Where do you draw the line? I thought of that issue when Brother Andrew—the man often described as “God’s Smuggler”—sat at lunch with me and a group of friends and told of being severely criticized because he had reached out to the Hezbollah, in an attempt to bring...
Out of the mouths of babes come some of the hardest issues that ever confront theologians, to say nothing of Sunday school teachers or parents. For example, the question that my son, then five years of age, once put to me in rush-hour traffic: “Daddy,” he said, “how...
LISTEN TO THE DEVOTIONAL When Larry Alexander learned that he had eighteen months to live, his world came crashing down. The prospect of experimental surgery offered some hope, but the future was pretty bleak. His wife, Anne, then pregnant with their third...