Imagine you’ve been asked to participate in an experiment with a group of people. Everyone is instructed to toss a ball back and forth. What you don’t know is the rest of the group has been instructed never to let you have the ball. The others toss the ball back and forth between them, but it never comes your way. How do you feel? Isolated? Frustrated? A little angry? Eventually, ...
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Stuart Briscoe tells the story of a church colleague who was going to conduct the funeral service of a war veteran. Some of the military friends of the deceased wanted to participate in the service. So they decided that during the service, the pastor would lead the veterans down the center aisle to pay tribute to their fallen friend’s casket, and then the pastor would lead them out through a ...
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Without a doubt, Thomas Edison is the greatest inventor in US history. But what I admire most about Edison is how he handled failure and discouragement. In 1914, after ten years of experimenting on the storage battery without success, Edison’s finances were depleted. The only thing propping up his laboratory was film and record production. Then one night, a fire erupted in the film room. Fire departments from eight towns ...
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In his book Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life, Chuck Swindoll recounted the tragic story of George Jaeger, whose father and three sons drowned after their fishing boat sank during a storm: First one boy and then another swallowed too much salt water, gagged, and strangled on the brine as they fought to keep their heads up. The helpless father heard his sons, one by one, then his dad, choke and ...
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In a memorable scene from a well-known comedy, a family is seated at the dinner table, and the father is saying grace. He says, “Dear tiny, infant Jesus . . .”
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No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.–2 Timothy 2:4
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Your mind is the devil’s playground–or perhaps more accurately, your mind is the spiritual battleground on which the invisible war for your soul is being waged.
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For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities.–Colossians 1:16
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Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man–Romans 1:22-23
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Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness; for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things.–1 Timothy 4:7-8
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