“The LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.” – Genesis 12:1-2 You might be surprised to […]

“But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.” – Luke 6:35 In his book, The Grace of Giving, Stephen Olford tells of […]

“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.” – 1 John 5:14 A man was being pursued by a roaring, hungry lion. Feeling the beast’s hot breath on his neck and knowing his time was short, he prayed frantically as he ran, […]

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 6:23 On May 2, 1962, a dramatic advertisement appeared in the San Francisco examiner that said, I don’t want my husband to die in the gas chamber for a crime he did not commit. […]

“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” – Ephesians 2:10 Charles Dickens drives home a profound truth in a scene from his famous novel, A Christmas Carol. Confronted one night by the ghost of his crooked business partner – and warned […]

“From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.” – Ephesians 4:16 There was a team of engineers who did an experiment in a wind tunnel to determine why geese fly in a “V” formation. In the experiment, […]

“Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.” – Romans 12:10 There was a woman who always went to a certain post office in her town because the postal employees there were just so friendly. One year just before Christmas, she walked in to buy a book of stamps, and the […]

“Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.” – Psalm 100:1-3 Michael Green tells the story of a young […]

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” – John 13:34 Despite his busy schedule, Abraham Lincoln often visited wounded Civil War soldiers in hospitals across the Union. On one occasion, he walked in to see a man who was near death. “Is […]

“If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.” – 1 Corinthians 3:15 Chuck Swindoll tells the story of a fighter pilot shot down by enemy fire during World War II… At treetop level he lost part of his stabilizer, a […]