Jesus used stories, current events, stimulating questions, and object lessons to drive home the gospel message. What do you use? Here’s a good example of being winsome so you can win some.
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Mini-Message Monday: This Day & That Day
Some people grieve over past failures and walk through life backwards. Some only dream of a better future and entirely miss the present. Some live for present gratification and forget the world to come. But, says the Apostle Paul, though we should live IN the present,...
Fireside Friday: The Gift Or The Gavel
We don’t often think of ourselves writing a true-life autobiography every day, but we are. Standing in the shadows is the Editor-in-Chief. He lets us write our own characters and choices and drama into the script, but always gets a say in the twists and turns of the...
Special Fireside Friday Edition: New Year’s REST SOLUTION
Special Fireside Friday Edition: Many begin implementing their New Year's Resolutions today in attempt to better themselves. But have you considered your Rest Solution yet? Discover how you can finally have peace in your heart that lasts forever (re-posted from a few...
Mini-Message Monday: Trash for Treasure
We could do no better in introducing this talk than to quote Martha Snell Nicholson’s poem: Let me hold lightly things of this earth, Transient treasures, what are they worth? Moths can corrupt them, rust can decay, All their bright beauty fades in a day. Let me hold...
Top Ten Tuesday: Ways to Help New Believers
Mini-Message Monday: “The Baby BoyS of Bethlehem”
Mini-Message Monday (repost from 2018, 4 mins): "The Baby BoyS of Bethlehem" — What did God send in the midst of a corrupt priesthood? A corrupt kingship? A corrupt world? Turn your eyes to Bethlehem, "little among the thousands of Judah" (Micah 5:2) and you'll find...
Fireside Friday: Turned Upside Down
Tornadoes tend to do that—turn your life upside down, I mean. But on a mission of mercy to help a dear Christian who had been a step from death and whose life’s papers had been scattered far and wide across her little farm, we discovered something more powerful than a...
Top Ten Tuesday: Be a Blessing in your Local Church
Fireside Friday: God and Taekwondo
It's 8600 miles as the crow flies from Montevideo, Uruguay to Little Rock, Arkansas. Assuming crows fly that route. But God brought a man that far for a reason very different from the one he thought he was there.
