Special Features (Page 31)

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

What does your neighborhood look like?

What would happen if we matched our Christmas decorations spending with help for those in need?

Make Every Day Like Christmas

Why can't every day be like Christmas?

Wouldn't the world be a better place if we lived as each day were Christmas?

It Only Comes with Rain

Some things we just can't do!

Only God can bring new life with refreshment through his holy spirit.

My Old Watch

Is there still time?

We must use all the time we have and not waste it because we can make a difference in the time we are given.

Thanks-giving

What holiday has a message in its name?

Giving thanks should lead us to other forms of giving.

Taste and See

Have you tasted just how good it is?

Just as we enjoy the senses of taste and sight, we need to taste and see that the Lord is good.

Time for Thanksgiving

Isn't time to do this with everything else going on?

Thanksgiving is something that is needed, commanded, and celebrated: so let's give thanks.

Quieted with His Love

Is there a place of calm and rest?

God has promised to know us and love us and quiet us with his love.

The Challenge to Just Be

Can you resist the urge to be in motion all the time?

So often, we try to face every challenge rather than to rest in the peace of the Lord's victory and just be.

The Old Clock

What lesson can an old abandoned clock teach us?

Too many people are put on the back shelf of life and we need to find them and reclaim them just as Baranabas once did.

Re-Thinking Election Strategy?

Can anything good come out of politics?

While we can get sickened by election rhetoric, sometimes good lessons can be learned from good men!

No Pain, No Gain

How does your shoulder feel?

Exercise can cause pain, but that pain is necessary to help us grow and see things more clearly.

For Those Under Trial

What about those who are not free to worship the Lord?

We must pray for those facing persecution.

You Must Remember the Forgotten

Will you remember those everyone else forgets?

True religion is more than just spouting off religious phrases and remaining isolated from worldly people -- it means to take the sin and worldliness out of people and take care of them.

Seek Me and Live

What happens when a nation loses its way?

God convicts Israel because of her sin. We must pray not to be this nation.

Citizens of a Different Country

Do you have your green card?

We must recognize that our highest allegiance is to the Lord Jesus and His Kingdom and so we are all aliens.

The Best Kind of Citizens

How can we be good citizens?

We can and must be good citizens of the nation we find ourselves in.

Haunted House

Jesus talked about a haunted house?

Don't simply get rid of evil, but fill your life with goodness!

Lord, What are You Doing?

Can you figure it out?

So often we are too busy with the everyday things of life to ask the most important questions of all: what are you doing lord and what do you want me to be doing?

Throwing Bibles from Heaven

Where do Bibles come from?

Knowing the Scriptures is a special blessing we must never take for granted.

I Have Decided

Will you still follow?

I have decided to follow Jesus and though I don't do it perfectly, I won't quit

Don't You Just Love It?

Will justice ever be served?

We enjoy seeing justice happen on earth because it happens so infrequently here.

True Love ... Obeys!

What does true love do?

While true love waits, true love also obeys. Whatever happened to obedience?

The Strawberry

Why eat a strawberry when pursued by a cougar?

God is in control and our job is to make the most of the life we are given.

Handling Life's Storms

What happens when the strom won't let up?

The way we handle life's storms can be a powerful witness to those around us just like Stephen's life was.