MONEY cannot bring satisfaction. It is like the man who said, “Last month my aunt died and left me $25,000. Last week, my brother died and left me $38,000. I am so depressed.” His good friend said, “Why are you depressed?” He said, “Because this week, nobody died.”442 [Materialism, Deception of; Money; Perspective, Need for] … Continue reading “GREED,
EMPTINESS OF”
GRATEFULNESS
A MAN needed his pants ironed. His wife, as she ironed the pants for him, burned the pants. These pants were brand-new pants that he was looking forward to wearing. Her husband started to get mad but stopped to think before reacting and said, “Lord, thank You that my leg wasn’t in those pants.” There … Continue reading “GRATEFULNESS”
GRACE, SUFFICIENCY OF
SOME of us have service policies in our home that we haven’t looked at for years. We have no clue as to what our benefits are. I was thumbing through the service contract for my car. I’d never looked at it, and one day I was sitting in my car waiting and decided to flip … Continue reading “GRACE,
SUFFICIENCY OF”
GRACE, PROVISION OF
ONE TIME, my wife and I were walking through the airport. We were changing flights and had to walk from one terminal to another. I got on the moving sidewalk, but she decided to just walk down the hallway without assistance. So, I am walking down the moving sidewalk with ease, because I am walking … Continue reading “GRACE,
PROVISION OF”
GRACE, POWER OF
THE POLICEMAN has a law book. The policeman shows up because a law has been broken. But the book does not take you to jail. The book does not condemn or go after the person who’s hurt you. All the codebook does is give you the guidelines by which the laws can be manifested. When … Continue reading “GRACE,
POWER OF”
GRACE, NEED FOR
THE NEED for grace is the problem of sin and the problem of sin cannot be solved by the efforts of man. Nothing you do can cancel out the problem of sin. Crushing five million oranges still won’t give you an apple.428 [Heaven, Entrance into; Sin; Sin, Dealing with] Rom. 3:23–24; Eph. 2:8–9
GRACE, LAW AND
HAVE you ever seen a person with a big dog on a leash and the dog is dragging the person or the person is pulling the dog? That is the way a lot of us are living our Christian lives; we’re living it on a law leash. Stop that! Don’t do that! Come here! Read … Continue reading “GRACE,
LAW AND”
GRACE, APPRECIATION OF
WHEN a person truly understands that oxygen is a gift, they will not smoke. If a person comprehends that good health is a gift, they are not going to abuse drugs. When a Christian understands that grace is a gift of God, they will make the choice to say no to wrong and yes to … Continue reading “GRACE,
APPRECIATION OF”
GOSPEL, GOOD NEWS OF
A YOUNG lady one day was speeding through a small Georgia town. She was traveling 70 mph in a 55 mph speed zone. The police pulled her over and wrote her a ticket that would cost her $100. She didn’t have the money to pay it and ended up having to go to court over … Continue reading “GOSPEL,
GOOD NEWS OF”
GOOD
MOST kitchens have blenders. These blenders are designed to take independent foods and integrate them, coagulate them, unite them, interface them, and create something new, bigger, and better than any one item could be on its own. A blender takes these items and crushes and forces them together so that what started out as separate, … Continue reading “GOOD”