Read: Psalm 13:1-2 | A journalist was assigned to the Jerusalem bureau of his newspaper. After a brief search, he found an apartment overlooking the Wailing Wall. After several weeks, he realized that whenever he looked at the Wailing Wall he saw an old Jewish man praying vigorously. The journalist immediately recognized that this […]
Read:Luke 6:38 | R. G. Le Tourneau, built up a business designing and making massive earth moving equipment. By the latter part of his life, he was giving 90% of his income away and living on 10%. Despite this, his net worth continued to climb. Someone asked, “How come you’re giving 90% of all your […]
Read: Psalm 8:1 | Psalm 8 starts out “O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth,…” How can a name be majestic? After all, it is only a “name”. In William Shakespeare’s 1594 play, Juliet also mused “What’s in a name?” But in Shakespeare’s personal reflection on the subject, he […]
Read: 2 Cor. 9:6-8 | Years ago, a young man wrote a letter to the well-known evangelist Billy Graham. (abbreviated copy below) Dear Rev. Graham: You will probably never see this letter. However, I feel compelled to write to you. I am twenty-eight years old, a victim of cerebral palsy since birth. I have never […]
Read: Psalms 5 | Thomas Chisholm wrote the poem that became the well-known hymn “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” in 1925. Surely, the words to the poem were birthed in the cauldron of his life’s triumphs and failures and tempered by the Holy Spirit. I imagine that as he wrote, he reflected upon his birth […]
