How Do I Know What Heaven Holds?
November 29, 2022
When I travel overseas, going to a place I've never visited, I'm always curious. I want to know what it's like, what people wear there, what we are going to do when we get there, what's the weather like, what are the customs and what are people like who live there. There are only two ways to find out: read the travel books, look it up online, or talk to someone who has been there.
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"Let not your heart be troubled," said Jesus in the Upper Room at the Feast of the Passover, "ye believe in God, believe also in me" (John 14:6, KJV). When Jesus spoke those words, there were plenty of reasons for His followers to be worried and troubled. He had just taken a basin and washed the feet of the disciples, telling them that there was a traitor in their midst who would betray Him. As He took the cup to share the Passover meal, Satan entered into the heart of Judas, who would sell Christ for 30 pieces of silver.
November 28, 2022
The woman died all alone at the age of 71. Because she had not seen a physician recently, the coroner was called to determine the cause of her death. “Malnutrition,” was the verdict. The little lady’s weight was only 50 pounds. Neighbors said that she had begged food from them, sometimes going door to door. The local outlet of the Salvation Army knew her. That’s where she had bought her clothes—all second-hand, of course.
November 25, 2022
"Why should we be concerned about poverty in Africa or the plight of the homeless? We didn't cause the problems that confront people there, so why should we give?" challenged one person who seemed to feel that what happens somewhere else in the world should be left to someone else to solve.
November 24, 2022
Have you ever had the experience of feeling that you are the "odd person out?" You have to attend a professional meeting or something you feel you should attend but would prefer to skip it. But you can't. You have to attend. Others stand around talking, laughing, and conversing, but you stand in the back of the room alone and intimidated, looking for the exit, thinking only about getting out. What you really want to do is escape, and as fast as possible.
November 23, 2022
When you are only five feet three, and someone who is six feet five towers over you, you quickly learn what intimidation is, especially when the giant leans over you and threatens you. We'd much prefer enemies about our own size, giving us an equal chance; but of course, life isn't always fair.
November 22, 2022
A Sunday school teacher, trying to impress the boys in her class, told the story of David and Goliath. In the class was one boy with an attitude. He thought he was pretty tough himself, so the teacher stressed how big Goliath was, picturing him as so big and tall that he would have dwarfed Yao Ming, the seven-foot five giant of a basketball player—China's import to the Houston Rockets at the time.
November 21, 2022
A senior citizen, eyeing a parking spot that had just been vacated at a mall, was slowly backing up his aging luxury car, to get room to maneuver into the spot when a teenager in a small, red sportscar came from the other direction and zipped into the spot. Jumping over the side of his little car, the youth called out, "That's 'cause I'm young and fast." The old man revved up his engine and plowed ahead—straight into the little sportscar folding it up like an accordion. Then, turning to the horror-stricken youth, he said, "That's 'cause I'm old and rich."
November 18, 2022
Haste is the parent of nine-tenths of our mistakes! Do you believe that? If you question that fact, think back on some of the wrong turns in life which you took, decisions that you made without thinking through the consequences. Those panic-driven decisions are the choices which we live to deeply regret.
November 17, 2022
Doug Nichols describes it as "what seminary can't teach." It's one of the lessons learned in the school of experience which is otherwise described as "the school of hard knocks." In 1967, Doug, who founded a Christian ministry known as Action International Ministries, was serving as a missionary in India. When he contracted tuberculosis, he was eventually sent to a sanitarium to recuperate.
November 16, 2022
John Redman tells the story of a farmer who came to town and asked the chef of a new French restaurant if he could use about a million frog legs. "Oui!" he responded enthusiastically, but he quickly asked, "Where in the world would you find so many frogs?" "I have a pond at home that is filled with them," replied the farmer, adding, "they drive me crazy night and day."
November 15, 2022
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