WRITTEN BY: Marvin Williams (Our Daily Bread; 7/15/12) In Outlive Your Life, Max Lucado writes: “Hospitality opens the door to uncommon community. It’s no accident that hospitality and hospital come from the same Latin word, for they both lead to the same result: healing. When you open your door to someone, you are sending this [...]
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Prepared For The Real Thing – Sunday Thought For The Day
WRITTEN BY: Joe Stowell (Our Daily Bread; 5/20/12) Through the years, quite a few people have predicted the return of Jesus at a specific time. Just last year an American radio preacher stirred up the interest of the mainstream media with his prediction that Jesus would return on May 21, 2011. Anyone who knows Scripture [...]
Beauty In The Church – Sunday Thought For The Day
When my husband, Jay, and I decided to build a new house, we didn’t recruit friends and family who enjoy working with power tools; instead we hired a skilled builder to create something both functional and beautiful. Beauty in the church building, however, is not always a high priority. Some associate it with impracticality, so [...]
Genuine Friends: Sunday Thought For The Day
Experts who track the changing vocabulary of the English language chose unfriend as the New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year for 2009. They defined it as a verb, “to remove someone as a friend on a social networking Web site,” such as Facebook. On that site, friends allow each other to access the [...]
Thank God For Music (Sunday Thought For The Day)
Music plays a big part in the Bible. From Genesis to Revelation, God enlists musicians to work on His behalf. He uses music to call people to worship and to send them to war, to soothe ragged emotions and to ignite spiritual passion, to celebrate victories and to mourn losses. Music is an all-occasion, all-inclusive [...]
Each Life Is A Gift – Sunday Thought For The Day
A young woman was pregnant but unmarried. And even though she lived in a society that didn’t place a high value on unborn life, she wisely chose to allow her baby to live. The child, whom she generously made available for adoption, became part of a loving Christian family who nurtured their precious daughter, loved [...]
Honoring Your Parents – Sunday Thought For The Day
My dad recently turned 90 years old and his physical capabilities are fading. He can still move around with his walker, but he needs someone to cook his meals and help him with other tasks. My older brother Steve and his wife Judy lived close to him, so they decided to move in with Dad [...]
Feeling Poor
In one way or another, we can all relate to Psalm 86:1 where David says, “I am poor and needy.” Even the richest among us should understand that poverty and need relate more to the spirit than to the wallet. When billionaire Rich DeVos speaks to groups he often says, “I’m just a sinner saved [...]
