There are those moments, or even days, when you believe, in the deepest part of you, that you cannot go on. After giving and giving, when you have poured your heart and soul into living and the trials life holds, those are the times you know the scale has been tipped precariously. Those are the… Continue reading Today We Sailed On
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Christian Quotes in Historical Accounts
The following information is not a sermon nor a teaching on the issue. It’s simply a listing of quotations made by prominent Christian ministers. These passages were gleaned from religious writings which come from many different centuries over the past 2000 years of New Testament church history. These excerpts and quotes reveal how church religious… Continue reading Christian Quotes in Historical Accounts
There Is A God
There is a God we want, and there is a God who is. They are not the same. The turning point of our lives is when we stop seeking the God we want and start seeking the God who is. ~Patrick Morley God’s Good Plan is: An Adventure. His plan will end in good for… Continue reading There Is A God
Daily Living
Paul’s epistles refer often to the Christian’s private life in the home. He tells husbands to love their wives and wives to be submissive to their husbands; children to obey their parents and parents to discipline their children; slaves to serve their masters and masters to be fair to their slaves. He tells citizens to… Continue reading Daily Living
I Am Writing Blind
When divers combed the wreckage of the Kursk (the destroyed Russian nuclear submarine on which 118 sailors perished), they found a letter written by Lt. Dmitri Kolesnikov. The handwritten note was addressed to his wife, Olga. It was penned after the explosion that sealed the sub’s doom on August 12, 2000, in the Barents Sea… Continue reading I Am Writing Blind
The Choice Before Us
If you suffer from moral anemia, take my advice and steer clear of Christianity. If you want to live a life of easy-going self-indulgence, whatever you do, do not become a Christian. But if you want a life of self-discovery, deeply satisfying to the nature God has given you; if you want a life of… Continue reading The Choice Before Us
He Sees You
One night a house caught fire, and a young boy was forced to flee flames by jumping to the ground from the roof. His father stood on the ground below with outstretched arms, calling to his son, “Jump! I’ll catch you.” But the boy was afraid. He couldn’t see his father–all he could see were… Continue reading He Sees You
Planned Parenthood Director Quits
A Planned Parenthood ® director has resigned from a Bryan, Texas, clinic after witnessing an ultrasound-guided abortion. Abby Johnson, 29, said she had a “change of heart” and knew it was time to leave after she watched a fetus “crumple” as it was vacuumed out of a patient’s uterus in September. “When I was working… Continue reading Planned Parenthood Director Quits
Families Still Eating Together
According to a new poll commissioned by The Associated Press, 60 percent of those who live with families said they sat down with family for dinner at least five nights in the past week. The research also revealed: Twenty-five percent of families have the television turned on during dinner. Fifty percent of families feel pestered… Continue reading Families Still Eating Together
God Made Some Questions Without Answers
It truly seems that God made some questions without any answers for their mate, Yet men seek, and even invent, answers to questions which are never complete nor are succinct Indeed, the angels must look on in wonderment at the portrayal of men’s versions that can never sate “I have light,” says one man and… Continue reading God Made Some Questions Without Answers