Monthly Archives: September 2015

“What a man does not want to believe, he can find a way to deny.” —Michael Ignatieff in The Needs of Strangers. Christianity Today, Vol. 42, no. 5., Today’s Best Illustrations – Volume 5, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: “U”. Genesis 19:14 (NIV) So Lot … Continue reading →

A Coloradoan moved to Texas and built a house with a large picture window from which he could view hundreds of miles of rangeland. “The only problem is,” he said, “there’s nothing to see.” About the same time, a Texan moved to Colorado and built a house with a large … Continue reading →

“It is easy to see that the moral sense has been bred out of certain sections of the population, like the wings have been bred off certain chickens to produce more white meat on them. This is a generation of wingless chickens.” —Flannery O’Connor, cited by Philip Yancey in Books … Continue reading →

Listening to a student read the Scripture in seminary chapel, Joseph Sittler, now blind, heard something he’d never heard before. “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me.”  “The text does not speak,” said Sittler, “of … Continue reading →

“If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.” —B.C. Forbes, magazine and book publisher. Men of Integrity, Vol. 2, no. 3., Today’s Best Illustrations – Volume 5, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: “HONESTY”. Exodus 18:21 (NIV) But select capable … Continue reading →

“Hearin’ is one thing and listenin’ is another.” —William Frend Demorgan. Men of Integrity, Vol. 2, no. 3., Today’s Best Illustrations – Volume 5, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: “HEARING”. Matthew 11:15 (ESV) He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Luke 8:8 (ESV) … Continue reading →

I was invited to a home to talk with a father about his son. As he described the circumstances, he said, “The thing that bothers me most is that drugs have made him a liar.”  The phone rang and his wife went to answer it. She came back and said, … Continue reading →

It takes a radical break to turn a man from earth’s trash to heaven’s treasure. —Vance Havner, quoted in Men of Integrity, Vol. 4, no. 2, (March/April 2001), Today’s Best Illustrations – Volume 5, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: “REPENTANCE”. Mark 10:17-23 (NIV) 17 As … Continue reading →

The human race is inquisitive about other people’s lives, but negligent to correct their own. —Saint Augustine of Hippo in Confessions. Christianity Today, Vol. 43, no. 5., Today’s Best Illustrations – Volume 5, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: “LIFE”. Luke 6:41 (ESV) Why do you … Continue reading →

God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our … Continue reading →