Evaluate Where Strength Comes From

A woodpecker tapped with his beak against the stem of a tree just as lightning struck the tree and destroyed it. He flew away and said, "I didn't know ...

God Gives The Resources

You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.

God Is the Invisible Locomotive

On my way to a conference in Colorado, I was driving uphill along a major interstate when I overtook a freight train going the same direction at a slower ...

Only the Strong Forgive

What is true of individuals is true of nations. One cannot forgive too much. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ...

Forgiveness Not for the Weak

When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, he instinctively threw up his hand in the Hindu gesture of forgiveness. Gandhi understood what Jesus was about, ...

Basic Needs

People are blind to what they really need. They need family, and they need religion. Period. There is such an incredible strength in family, and religion ...

Ooh's and Aah's

My three-year-old brother, Mark, put his arm on the table and said to his father, "Daddy, feel my muscle."

Dad squeezed his arm and murmured, "Oooooooh!"

God Brings Out Our Best

We are all asked to do more than we can do. Every hero and heroine of the Bible does more than he would have thought it possible to do, from Gideon to ...

We Can Do All Things

Guideposts published the story of Jim Stovall, who became totally blind at age 29. While he still had partial vision, he volunteered at a school for the ...

Seeing What We Really Are

It is very easy talking what we can bear, and what we can do, but let God lay his hand on us, and we shall see what we are.