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Scientists hypothesize that if time travel were possible and we could go back 1000 years, one of the things that would shock us most would be the silence. Think about it. All the background noise of our modern world: television, telephones, radios, cars, planes, refrigerators...

  As I write this, the sun is shining, the temperatures are rising and the leaves are showing that spring is upon us. All of nature seems to be coming out of hibernation and the glory of God is everywhere to see.   The beauty and wonder of...

  Brennan Manning, author of “The Ragamuffin Gospel,” once said, "It is always true to some extent that we make our images of God. It is even truer that our image of God makes us. Eventually we become like the God we image."   In the very first...

  Mary and Martha are deep in despair. Their brother, Lazarus, has just died. To add to their sorrow, they live with the knowledge that it could have all been prevented. If only Jesus had been around, He could have stopped this. Jesus loved Lazarus, He...

  When Billy Graham first started preaching, he was confused and had some doubts about God’s Word. While praying one morning, he got down on one knee and said, “Lord, I don’t understand all that is in this book, and there are a lot of different...

  In 1193, the English King Richard I, also known as Richard the Lionheart, was returning from leading a Crusade to the Holy Land. As he returned through Europe, Leopold V captured him in Austria. The Holy Roman Emperor demanded a ransom for Richard's release. The...

  When preparing my sermon series for the upcoming year, much prayer and thought goes into what topics will be covered. Some are easy to preach on, others are not. Certain topics are easy to avoid because they will most assuredly sprout controversy. Topics like abortion...

  Martin Luther once said, "Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works." Sounds about right. It is not the works in the man that make him good but the man in the works. It’s what motivates a person....

    It seems that the definition for morality has taken some liberties in recent years. Almost two thousand years ago, God defined morality like this through his servant Paul in Romans 13:8-10, “Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves...

    Volleyball was introduced as an Olympic sport in the 1964 Tokyo games. A Japanese women’s team was chosen to represent their nation for the event. Hirofumi Daimatsu, their coach, put the women through a grueling training program that resembled a Marine boot camp. The six...