Billy Sunday was a 19th century Major League baseball player who became an influential evangelist in the first two decades of the 20th century.
The story is told that a woman approached the preacher following one of his sermons and asked, “I wonder if you can help me? I have an awful habit of exaggerating.”
To the woman’s delight, Sunday acknowledged that he could help. Continue reading
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“Why did my Savior come to earth?” asks J.G. Dailey in his famous hymn.
“Why did He choose a lowly birth?”
“Why did He drink the bitter cup of sorrow, pain and woe?”
“Why on the cross be lifted up?” Continue reading
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Today is the 100th anniversary of the United States entry into World War I. It is an event that history says “changed America, and the world forever.”
Although the war erupted in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson pursued a policy of neutrality which the vast majority of Americans favored. However, Germany’s imperialistic vision would not leave America alone. Our ships were attacked as we aided Great Britain and our other Allies. Continue reading
This story is told that during one of his political campaigns, a delegation called on Theodore Roosevelt at his home in Oyster Bay, Long Island. The President met them with his coat off and his sleeves rolled up.
“Ah, gentlemen,” he said, “come down to the barn and we will talk while I do some work.”
At the barn, Roosevelt picked up a pitchfork and looked around for the hay. Then he called out, “John, where’s all the hay?” Continue reading
Filed under Great Bible Verses
While away last week ThePreachersWord missed the bomb shell news about Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen.
According to a March 28 Washington Post article by Ashley Parker Mike Pence “never eats alone with a woman other than his wife and that he won’t attend events featuring alcohol without her by his side, either.” Continue reading
The story is told, though it may be a legend, of Francis of Assisi, the 12th century monk, who once said to a fellow monk, “Let us go to town and preach.”
They went to town. They walked out one street, walked back another street, and returned. And never talked to a single person
Upon returning, the monk said to Francis, “I thought you said we were going to town to preach.” Continue reading
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Yesterday I received a recorded phone call with a very serious message. I was told the IRS had a warrant for my arrest. Then I was instructed to stay on the line to talk to an agent and receive instructions of what to do.
I laughed. And hung up. I knew it was a scam. But I thought some of my facebook friends would enjoy hearing about it. Predictably it elicited some funny responses and wonderful advice. Continue reading
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Several years ago at a meeting of the American Psychological Association, Jack Lipton, a psychologist at Union College, and R. Scott Builione, a graduate student at Columbia University, presented their findings on how members of the various sections of 11 major symphony orchestras perceived each other. Continue reading
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Malcolm Forbes, who died in 1990, was one of the wealthiest people to have lived in our time. Forbes enjoyed all the symbols of status that one can achieve in this life. Prosperity. Possessions. Power. Privilege. And a pleasurable lifestyle that comes with it.
In his book, The Man Who Had Everything, Christopher Winans relates a motorcycle tour that Forbes took through Egypt in 1984. After viewing the tomb of King Tut, Forbes seemed in a reflective mood. Continue reading
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Pop star, Katheryn Hudson, better known by her stage name, Katy Perry, recently mocked Christianity, the Bible, and her religious upbringing as she received an award from the Human Rights Campaign, a prominent homosexual advocacy organization.
Perry, whose father, Keith Hudson, is an evangelical preacher, referred to her 2008 hit song, “I Kissed a Girl,” and bragged, “I did more than that,” as the crowed roared with cheers and applause. Continue reading
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