Q         Warren, I’ve been praying a long time about a big struggle I’m facing, but God seems silent. How can I get my prayers answered? A         I love what Pastor Jack Graham says about being patient when it doesn’t seem like our prayers are being answered… Sometimes God says, “No.” Sometimes He says, “Slow” when […]

By Pastor Jack Graham The 18th century clergyman and songwriter John Newton is known for giving us the great words to the song, Amazing Grace. But one thing a lot of people don’t realize about Newton is that he wrote many other songs as well. One of them was called, Thou Art Coming to a […]

Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. —Colossians 3:16 It is said that on his retreat from Greece after his great military expedition, King Xerxes boarded a […]

“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 […]