“And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.” -John 14:3 One night a young boy asked his mother a question we’ve all wondered, “Mother,” he said, “what’s it like to die?” His mother sat […]

“But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” -Isaiah 40:31  When A. J. Gordon was pastor of a church in Boston, he met a young boy in front of the sanctuary […]

“Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them.”  -Jonah 2:8 God’s redemptive work in the lives of His faithful people will naturally provoke worship. Author and pastor Leslie B. Flynn once told a story that illustrates this truth. An orphaned boy was living with his grandmother when their house caught […]

“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”  -Philippians 1:21 Pete and Tony were best friends and die-hard baseball fans. One day they were munching on stadium nachos at a game and Pete said, “I wonder if we’ll play baseball in heaven.” To which Tony replies, “I really don’t know.” Just […]

“When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. But since they could see the man who had been healed standing there with them, there was nothing they could say.” – Acts 4:13-14 […]

“Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.” -Acts 3:19 In 1879, Thomas Edison was fast at work on a crazy contraption called a “light bulb.” Once they worked out the kinks, it took a team of men 24 straight […]

“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”  -Matthew 6:26 The famous missionary Hudson Taylor knew what it meant to trust in God’s faithfulness. In his journal he wrote: Our […]

“Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.” -1 Corinthians 3:1-2 Over 2,000 years ago, a young […]

“So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.” – Matthew 24:44 After waiting over an hour for her date to arrive and pick her up, a young woman finally realized that she had been stood up. Frustrated and a little embarrassed, […]

“For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh…” – Philippians 3:3 When it comes to overconfidence, golf legend Arnold Palmer recalls a tough lesson he once learned in a tournament: “It was the final hole […]