No one is immune from the devices of Satan. And no matter how old or how young we may be, how new we may be in the faith or how old we may be in the faith, we all need to hear what God has to say to us on this important issue, for temptation is a [...]

Someone has described resentment as the accumulation of unexpressed anger, anger swept under the rug. My friend Gary Ingrid tells a story of a man who was bitten by a dog, which was later discovered to be rabid. The man was rushed to the hospital [...]

They did a survey not long ago and 98% of the people in any large audience have experienced procrastination at one time or another, and the other 2% hadn't gotten around to thinking about it yet. They're like the guy who said he was gonna [...]

The Greek word for envy is a very interesting word. It is a word which means to boil within. Picture in your mind a seething boiling jealousy growing within the heart of a man. Paul wrote about such jealousy in a church to which he addressed a [...]

Failure is a part of everyone's life, even if we don't realize it, even if we're not willing to accept it. Back in 1988, the United Technologies Corporation published a little article in the "Wall Street Journal," reminding [...]

It should not surprise us to discover that in the Bible, there were many people who doubted. If you read through the Psalms, or you examine the lives of men like Job or Solomon, particularly as he wrote the Book of Ecclesiastes, or even in reading [...]

Early in the 1970s, a promising young American pianist gave a concert in the chamber music room of the Erawan Hotel in Bangkok. The recital was only a few minutes old when the artist discovered that due to the climate's excessive humidity, the [...]

I want to tell you about a young man, 15-year-old boy by the name of Robert Garth. Robert was a track star in his high school and actually had made the Junior Olympic tryouts. He came from a very poor family and as the day drew near for him to leave [...]

Mickey Rivers, an outfielder many years ago for the Texas Rangers, stated his philosophy about worry like this. He said, "Ain't no sense worryin' about things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, [...]

In his book, "Six Hours One Friday," Max Lucado writes of an experience that paints the picture of loneliness in indelible terms. He said: I had driven by the place countless times. Daily, I passed the small plot of land on the way to my [...]

Jack Canfield was driving home from work one day, and he stopped to watch a local Little League game. As he sat down behind first baseline on the bench, he asked one of the boys what the score was. And the boy said, "We're behind 14 to [...]

After the door to her small apartment closed in 1949, Marjorie Goff went out three times in 30 years. She went out once to give some ice cream to a friend of hers who was failing in health. She went out the second time for an operation. And she went [...]