I heard a story about a particular business that asked all of its employees to give to a local charity. They asked every employee to participate willingly in this charity. However, one man refused to give in support and stated openly, even defiantly that he would not give to this charity. Further, he said it would be futile to ask for a contribution of him. When told that the company’s boss expect...  Read More

A story from India tells about a mouse who was terrified of cats until a magician turned him into a cat. That solved the problem until the cat encountered a dog, so the new cat asked the magician to turn him into a dog. That worked well until the new dog met a tiger. So the new dog asked the magician to turn him into a tiger. That helped until the new tiger walked up on a hunter. The mouse-turned-...  Read More

The story is told of a teenage farm boy whose father raised chickens on the family land in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. One day the young teen climbed up a lofty peak and found an eagle’s nest. He grabbed an egg from the nest and brought it back down to the farm. He put it under a setting hen with her other eggs. Evidently, the hen did not know the difference—an egg was just an egg to her. The...  Read More

If you could ask one thing of the Lord, what would it be? The psalmist, David, was going through a tough time with major problems around him and adversaries against him, yet he had only one major request of the Lord. Here it is—“One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him i...  Read More

I think it is true—perhaps you do, too. Sometimes life dishes out some distasteful things and, in those times, there seems to be nothing we can do about it. I am talking about those experiences we would prefer not to have, but are forced to partake. You can probably think of some…I know I can. For example, years ago, I was a guest preacher at a church and the church leaders took me to the house of...  Read More

In the Gospels, after the Feeding of the 5000, Jesus set the disciples in a boat and sent them on a journey across the northern portion of the Sea of Galilee. He would join up with them later. Almost immediately, the skies darkened and the wind whipped the sea into a boisterous, dangerous storm. Their trouble began at nightfall and by 3 am the disciples were still “a considerable distance from lan...  Read More