TAKE A MINUTE

I recently received the following in an email. Take a moment and read over it, and I will have a few comments to make at the end. Imagine that you had won the following prize in a contest: Each morning your bank would deposit $86,400 in your private account for your use. However, this prize has rules, just as any game has certain rules. The first set of rules would be: Everything that you didn't spend during each day would be taken away from you. You may not simply transfer money into ...

John F. Kennedy once observed: “When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” What an amazing statement. In one word, we find two seemingly different ideas. On the one hand there is the admission that a challenge or problem has come. However, on the other hand, we find an opportunity or a chance. There is actually a passage of scripture which supports this quote wonderfully. In ...

One of my favorite scriptures is found in Acts 17: 1-6. There we find the Apostles have come to Thessalonica. They are, as usual preaching Christ. The leaders don't like it, and they are looking to stop them. The part I enjoy so much is the description which they place upon the apostles in verse 6. There the Bible reads: "These that are turned the world upside down are come hither also." Understand that the church had grown by this point, but over-all, their numbers were still small. ...