Sermons and Biblical Studies

God’s Nobodies I doubt very much whether you have heard of Frank Wimproy, He was one of God’s “nobodies.” But God did a great work through him. Frank Wimproy was one of the workers at the Radnor Street Mission, Shoreditch, London. One Sunday in 1912, Wimproy felt led to speak to a young lad in … Continue reading “Insignificant”

Arithmatic The class of noisy boys in a German primary school was being punished by their teacher. They were assigned the problem of adding together all the numbers from 1 to 100. The boys settled down, scribbling busily on their slates—all but one. This boy looked off into space for a few moments, then wrote … Continue reading “Insight”

Teach a Lesson Abraham Lincoln once listened to the pleas of the mother of a soldier who’d been sentenced to hang for treason. She begged the President to grant a pardon. Lincoln agreed. Yet, he’s reported to have left the lady with the following words: “Still, I wish we could teach him a lesson. I … Continue reading “Inoculation”

First Hot Balloon On June 4, 1783 at the market square of a French village of Annonay, not far from Paris, a smoky bonfire on a raised platform was fed by wet straw and old wool rags. Tethered above, straining its lines, was a huge taffeta bag 33 feet in diameter. In the presence of … Continue reading “Innovation”

Innocent Ignorance We begin by trusting or ignorance and calling it innocence, by trusting our innocence and calling it purity. And when we hear these rugged statements of our Lord’s (Matthew 15:18), we shrink and say: “But I never felt any of those awful things in my heart.” Either Jesus Christ is the supreme authority … Continue reading “Innocence”

Quotes •      To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. – Plato •      There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. – Elie Wiesel •      Life is unjust. Upon accepting an award, the late Jack Benny once remarked, … Continue reading “Injustice”

Motivated In his book Being the Best (Thomas Nelson Publishers), Denis Waitley has some interesting observations about procrastination. “When you stop to think about it,” he says, “there is no such thing as a future decision. You face only present decisions that will affect what will happen in the future. Procrastinators wait for just the … Continue reading “Initiative”

The Impossible •      Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. – St. Francis of Assisi, Speaker’s Idea File, p. 3.

South Pole The South Pole could be called the healthiest place on earth because there’s no pollution, no dust, and very few people. The air is as fresh and clean as it must have been everywhere before man began pouring industrial wastes into the atmosphere. Furthermore, it’s one of few locations where man is not … Continue reading “Inhospitable”

Complaining The careless soul receives the Father’s gifts as if it were a way things had of dropping into his hand…yet he is ever complaining, as if someone were accountable for the problems which meet him at every turn. For the good that comes to him, he gives no thanks—who is there to thank? At … Continue reading “Ingratitude”