Blessings from the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! This would be my final blog since the end is near. But before I go, I implore everyone reading this: If you are not saved yet, PLEASE GET SAVED. There is almost no time. The coming of the Lord is a...
by Lawrence Darmani As I sat on a train headed for an important appointment, I began to wonder if I was on the right train. I had never traveled that route before and had failed to ask for help. Finally, overcome by uncertainty and doubt, I exite...
by Joe Stowell Technology is a blessing in so many ways. Need a bit of information about a health problem? All you have to do is access the internet where you instantaneously get a list of options to guide your search. Need to contact a friend? J...
by Julie Ackerman Noise. Vibration. Pressure. Fireball. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield used these words to describe being launched into space. As the rocket raced toward the International Space Station, the weight of gravity increased and b...
by HJS "The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank," so said Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He's right. It is impossible to give thanks without having an object or person attached. Give thanks to whom? The pi...
by HJS Do you ever wish that you could really know God? The old English hymnist Ian McPherson did when he wrote, "If I but knew thee as thou art, O loveliness unknown,/ with what desire, O Lord, my heart would claim thee for its own." The theme i...
by HJS Deep within your heart is there a yearning to know God better, to draw near to Him, to feel closeness and intimacy? Have you ever considered the fact that what you feel - that deep longing to connect with Him - was put there by God Himsel...
by HJS When the going gets tough, people always start thinking about God, wondering if He can make a difference, if He can give them deliverance from their difficulties. Genesis tells us that in the second generation from Adam, in the days of E...
by HJS The last person to be rescued from the crumbled remains of the World Trade Center on 9/11 was a woman by the name of Genelle Guzman, who was working on the 67th floor of Tower One on that ill-fated day. Genelle was able to work her way dow...
by HJS When the spacecraft Columbia disintegrated on its reentry into Earth's atmosphere on February 1, 2003, a new pantheon of heroes was born - men and women who knew the risks they were taking yet chose to take that chance. Yet before their la...
by HJS How do you handle petty annoyances? You board a long flight and settle in with a book. Behind you is a six-year-old boy who gives your seat a firm kick, then another, and another. You turn around and glare at the kid, who ignores you. His ...
by HJS Rick Warren, a pastor who speaks to some 12,000 people every week, says that the question people ask more than any other is, "Why did this happen to me?" Has that question ever came from your heart? Has a phone call in the night brought tr...
by HJS More and more of life is lived in the fast lane. Many will take precious hours from you in the form of phone calls, interruptions, and endless detours. How do you get out of the fast lane? GUIDELINE 1: Have a plan and stay with your plan....
by HJS Living faster than ever before and enjoying it less? Millions of people are like that, living in a pressure cooker environment, packing more and more into less and less time, but liking it less every day. Time to reflect is in very short s...
by HJS Micah was living in Judah, which was part of the southern kingdom, when the Assyrians laid siege to the northern tribes of Israel. Assyria was ruthless, domineering and vicious. History reminds us that Lenin, Hitler, and Stalin were all di...
by HJS "Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings," Betsie ten Boom told her sister in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp. "It's we make inside ourselves." Betsie died shortly thereafter. Corrie, the older of the two sisters, and the...
by HJS God works in and through the difficulties and problems that confront you in ways unknown to you. You only realize later on, in retrospect, how God was actually working in your situation. That was true of a young man whose jealous half-bro...
by HJS Trouble is not a single terrorist who quietly stalks you in the night; it rather comes as a series of frontal attacks. Consider the following ways God uses difficulties for your benefit: God uses trouble to redirect your life. Sometimes ...
by HJS Some stand while they pray. Some fall face down before God while others kneel. In ancient days when people worshiped God, they knelt and prostrated themselves on the ground. It represented the acknowledgment of a superior. Submission to...
by HJS Do you ever ask yourself, "What's the purpose of going to church, anyway?" Have we grown bored because the competition is too great or because our focus is wrong? The book of Acts is the exciting history of the Early Church. While we don...
by HJS "I can worship God much better," say some, "outdoors where I see His handiwork than in a church." But the question is, "Do we worship at the beach, on a mountain trail, on the tennis courts, or driving on a freeway?" Or do people simply us...
by HJS When God asked Abraham to give his son as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah, he complied without questioning God as to why He asked this most unusual thing, especially when the boy had been a gift from God. As Abraham approached Moriah, he turne...
by HJS I visited Mesa Verde, Colorado when I was still a young boy. I will never forget how I marveled at the Anasazi Indians' homes, their pottery, and their resourcefulness. One of the focal points of the settlement was a Kiva. On the walls wer...
by HJS When Paul spoke of God's power, the word he chose was dunamis, from which we get the word dynamite. The Bible is powerful because it has been energized by the Spirit of God. "God-breathed" is Paul's term for it (2 Timothy 3:16). No other ...
by HJS When our first father, Adam, disobeyed God, something within him died, something that can be revived only by God's quiet, powerful presence. The universal hunger for God is an indication that God wants to satisfy that hunger. For some fol...
