What Time Is it for You
What Time Is it for You In the book Time for God, there is a mathematically calculated schedule which compares a lifetime of “three-score years and ten” with the hours of a single day from seven o’clock in the morning until eleven o’clock at night. If your age is: 15, the time is 10:25am20, the time is […]
Working With Clutter
Working With Clutter In America, the average desk worker has 36 hours worth of work on his or her desk and wastes 3 hours a week just searching for things in the maze of clutter.
Words
Words The Gospel of John introduces Jesus as the “Word.” In Stanislas Dehaene’s book about the human brain, Reading in the Brain, he notes that the average adult English reader has 50,000 or more words stored in their mental dictionaries. In a fraction of a second the brain matches the word being read with the memorized […]
Willing People
Willing People Every church is filled with willing people—some willing to work, and others willing to let them.
What Holiness Consists of
What Holiness Consists of “Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.”
When George Meller got saved-George Mueller
When George Meller got saved-George Mueller When George Meller got saved, He had five lost friends. He began to pray for these 5 friends. Five years went by, and one got saved. Fifteen years went by and 2 others got saved. Twenty-five years went by and the 4th got saved! Fifty-two years after he began […]
What Sin Is
What Sin Is Man calls it an accident; God calls it an abomination. Man calls it a blunder; God calls it blindness. Man calls it a chance; God calls it a choice. Man calls it an error; God calls it an enmity. Man calls it a fascination; God calls it a fatality. Man calls it […]
Why Bubble Gum Is Pink
Why Bubble Gum Is Pink Ask anyone about the color of bubble gum and they’ll invariably say “pink.” In 1928, Walter Diemer accidentally created the first successful batch of bubble gum while playing around with different recipes. He made it pink because, at the time, that was the only food coloring available in the factory. […]
Why the Grass Looks Greener on the Other Side
Why the Grass Looks Greener on the Other Side In her column, Ask Marilyn, Marilyn vos Savant gave an interesting perspective on contentment. One reader wrote in about a unique experiment she had conducted after being dissatisfied that her neighbor’s yard looked better than her own. She did what few have done and walked next door to […]
What Money Will Not Buy
What Money Will Not Buy Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but Heaven.