“All your words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal.” – Psalm 119:160 The American Banking Association once sponsored a two-week training program to help tellers detect counterfeit bills. The program was unique – never during the two-week training did the tellers even look at a counterfeit bill, nor did they listen to any […]

“A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.” – Proverbs 16:28 Winston Churchill quite often exemplified integrity and respect in the face of opposition. During his last year in office, he attended an official ceremony. Several rows behind him, two gentlemen began whispering, “That’s Winston Churchill. They say he is getting […]

“As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air… But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even […]

“Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.” – Hebrews 5:13-14 Leadership magazine once ran an article about the curious growth habits of sharks. As the article […]

“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.” – 2 Timothy 4:3 Whenever you go to a doctor for your annual check-up, he or she […]

“Be still and know that I am God.” – Psalm 46:10 The story is told of a British politician who took his 8-year-old daughter on a tour of London. They came to Westminster Abbey and the awesomeness of it struck the little girl. As she gazed at the towering columns and stirring beauty of the […]

“As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.” – James 2:26 A young boy, on an errand for his mother, had just bought a dozen eggs. As he walked out of the store, he tripped and dropped the sack, breaking every egg he had bought. The sidewalk was a […]

“Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.” – Galatians 4:6-7 A little boy visiting his grandparents was given […]

“No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.” – 1 John 4:12 A young man was once determined to win the affection of a beautiful lady who refused to even talk to him. He decided that the way to […]

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” – John 13:34 In Ernest Gordon’s famous book Miracle on the River Kwai, he tells the story of captured soldiers who had been forced by their Japanese captors to labor on a jungle railroad. The […]