NEW YORK (AP) – It’s the latest story that touched, and betrayed, the world. “Herman Rosenblat and his wife are the most gentle, loving, beautiful people,” literary agent Andrea Hurst said Sunday, anguishing over why she, and so many others, were taken by Rosenblat’s story of love born on opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence… Continue reading Anger, sadness over fabricated Holocaust story
Author: Jay Jones
Restoration After Moral Failure?
Is there disregard within ministry for the high calling of holiness, purity, righteousness and blamelessness that is demanded of God in scripture? Something is wrong when a leader brings a reproach on the Church with immoral, deviant behavior, and these men slip into obscurity only long enough for publicity of their moral failure to die… Continue reading Restoration After Moral Failure?
When Joy Walks Out Duty Walks In
Psalms 122:1 , Ecclesiastes 12:13 David said I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the LORD. Solomon said Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, fear God, keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man. When joy walks out duty walks in.
Quoted: Leonard Ravenhill on Believing the Bible
Some day some simple soul is going to pick up the Bible and read it and believe it, and then the rest of us are going to be embarrassed.
Counting the Cost of Pastoring
Luke 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? In a recent story in the USA Today titled, “Want to Start a Franchise?” the paper listed 15 questions one should ask themselves when considering becoming a franchisee owner.… Continue reading Counting the Cost of Pastoring
Friends and Family Service – Economic Stimulus
As a promotion in our church, we prayed over many letters with dollar bills attached to them. A week later, at our Friends and Family day service, we gave these letters and dollars to each household… members and visitors… as a token of faith in God for our prayers to be answered. Here is the… Continue reading Friends and Family Service – Economic Stimulus
Quoted: Franklin P. Jones on Punctuality
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.
The Orphan Train
The Orphan Train was a social experiment that transported children from crowded coastal cities of the United States to the country’s Midwest for adoption. The orphan trains ran between 1854 and 1929, relocating an estimated 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, or homeless children. At the time the orphan train movement began, it was estimated that 30,000 vagrant… Continue reading The Orphan Train
Quoted: Jay Jones on Change
The way I see it, there are only two options to choose from when you’re painted into a corner. You either shut up and be content, facing the fact that real change cannot and will not happen… or you get paint on your feet.
Are You Drifting?
Two young men were fishing one day near their hometown. Being so focused on their goal of catching fish, they didn’t realize their boat had drifted so close to the dam’s rushing water until they were too close to turn back. Caught by the current, their boat was swept over the dam into the crashing… Continue reading Are You Drifting?