"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness that I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again" (Stephen Grellet.1773–1855)If there is one...
1 Peter 5:8 "Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour."DeDe Phillips is a grandmother who lives in Hart County, Georgia.Recently, around dinnertime, she left her five-year-old granddaughter in...
"The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men" (William Barclay 1907–1978)The effort that has gone into technical and medical development in our lifetime is almost beyond comprehension. Whilst these developments and...
"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else" (Sir Winston Churchill 1874–1965).As we are surrounded by catastrophes, economic meltdown, wars and rumours of wars, optimism is sometimes denounced as a pointless concept. Yet this word is of great...
"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." (Sir James M. Barrie 1860–1937) This is a story about a singing bird. This bird didn't sing in the open, away from buildings and people. It didn't fly from tree to tree. In fact...
"God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterwards, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we...
"In our natural life our ambitions are our own. In the Christian life we have no aim of our own, and God's aim looks like missing the mark because we are too short-sighted to see what He is aiming at." (Oswald Chambers 1874–1917)Can you remember what you wanted to be...