We Are In A War

2 Cor. 10:4 (NIV)   The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.  Steven Ambrose’s non-fiction history book Band of Brothers tells the story of a group of paratroopers who land inside the...

The Fruitful Life: Part Four

The February 26, 1974 edition of Insight told the story of Major William Martin, a British subject who is buried near Huelvo on the southern coast of Spain. Martin never knew the great contribution he made to the Allied success in the Second World War, especially in...

Dont Be Afraid To Ask

Fred Craddock, a professor of the course “Preaching and New Testament” at Emory University tells a story about a young pastor who goes to pray with an older woman. She’s near death; she’s in the hospital lying on the pillow, gasping for breath. He visits...

Finding your Purpose in Life – Overcoming Temptation

A wife got in the car with her husband and noticed a crumpled up donut bag in between the seats.  “Hey, what happened to your diet?”  “Oh, I think the Lord wanted me to have that,” the husband said.  “Sounds kind of fishy to me. What happened?” she said.  “Well, as I...

Finding Your Purpose in Life – Change

Eduardo Rivera, 43, was in court awaiting a hearing on a charge of receiving stolen property when he was re-arrested after carving his name into a courtroom bench (Reading, Pennsylvania, February 2003). David Joe White Jr., 32, having just pleaded guilty to 42...