Stanley Praimnath, Vice President for Fuji Bank, was in his office in the South Tower at the World Trade Center when his phone rang. “Are you watching the news?’ asked a woman in their Chicago office. “Are you alright?” “I’m fine” he said wondering why she had called. Just then he turned to gaze out…
Near New Brunswick Canada there is a church building on Deer Island that for many years has served as a physical lighthouse to the fishermen of that community. The Building is similar to any turn of the century Church building, but it is the location of the building that makes it ideal as a lighthouse….
H. A. Ironside told the story of pioneers who were making their way across one of the central states to a distant place that had been opened up for homesteading. They traveled in covered wagons drawn by oxen, and progress was necessarily slow. One day they were horrified to note a long line of smoke…
Most of us are guilty of hearing far more than we do. We know what we ought to do but fail to execute on the knowledge we possess. As one man said, “We’re educated far beyond our own obedience.”Someone once compared listening without doing to auditing a class in college. As an auditor, you enroll…
One of the bigger temptations for maturing Christians is the danger of getting accustomed to God’s blessings. Like the world traveler who has been everywhere and seen everything, there is a danger of taking his blessings for granted and getting so accustomed to them that they fail to excite us as they once did. Emerson…
It sounds like a made-up story, but it is true. Some years ago a church in Carter County, Tennessee had an attorney draw up a deed for their property. He wrote the deed naming The Lord God Almighty as the owner. That was fine until some years later the church wanted to sell the property…
When Daniel Webster wanted to give a person the impression that he remembered him, but could not recall his name or where they had met before, he would ask, “Well, how is the old complaint?” And nine times out of ten this worked. The person would begin to unfold some grievance that he had discussed…
There is a beautiful old story told of the American president Abraham Lincoln. I can only imagine what a heavy schedule of appointments President Lincoln had to keep day after day. Yet when an elderly woman with no official business in mind asked to see him, he graciously consented. As she entered Lincoln’s office, he…
Woody Allen in addressing a Harvard graduation said, “You have entered a crossroads of life. Down one road is despondency and despair.. down the other road is total annihilation. I sure hope you make the right choice.” Now, I’m confident that Woody Allen was being humorous but he was describing how many people feel sometimes….
The 10 Plagues of Egypt from the Book of Exodus is one of the most well-known events from the Bible. At this point in the story, Israel has been held in slavery for many years in Egypt. God raised up Moses to go to Pharaoh and say, let my people go. Pharaoh hardened his heart…
