We frequent a hard-to-find restaurant because the food is good and their portions are generous. Especially their soft-serve ice cream . . . except for one time. A new employee hadn’t reset the temperature after refilling the machine, and the ice cream was all mush. We smiled, laughed with them at the runny ice cream, […]
Category: salvation
While there is yet time.
When you strike a match to light thirty candles, you focus on the match, not the candles. Matches burn quickly and fingers feel pain. When you’re on vacation for a week, Monday is relaxed, Thursday is purposeful, and Saturday is too late — you’re packing for home. If you’re given six weeks to live, every […]
Seven takeaways from D. L. Moody* on responding to an inspiring spiritual experience.
1. Pray for one another, but don’t bind yourselves to do it every day until death. Doing so will only burden your conscience and make an irksome duty out of what should be a delightful privilege. 2. Don’t go away and talk more about the experience than about Christ; the world needs Him. 3. Every place […]
How D. L. Moody* explained Jesus Christ.
“Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel,” Jesus told His disciples. “Wait,” Peter interrupted. “Do You really mean that we are to go back to Jerusalem and preach the Gospel to those men that murdered You?” “Yes,” Jesus told him. “Go hunt up that man that spat in my face. Tell him […]
2033
Imagine preparing for a special guest. Someone who matters very much. Not just someone important, or someone you haven’t seen for a while, but someone who dramatically influenced your life. Someone you love. Many people believe that Jesus Christ will soon return. Some see 2033 as the year, while others believe it will be “within a […]
