How You Respond Failure doesn’t consist in stumbling and falling. The failure is in staying there on the floor. Success is in finding something while you’re down there to pick up with you. After his butcher shop in Brooklyn was robbed four times in one month, William Levine bought a bulletproof vest in 1980. Other…
Author: Alan Holden
Faith
Faith in the Worst of Times Sweeping across Germany at the end of World War II, Allied forces searched farms and houses looking for snipers. At one abandoned house, almost a heap of rubble, searchers with flashlights found their way to the basement. There on the crumbling wall, a victim of the Holocaust had scratched…
Family
Genetic Poverty Poverty is hereditary. You can get it from your children (also true of insanity). Genetic Miracle One of the great mysteries of life is how the idiot that your daughter married can be the father of the smartest grandchildren in the whole wide world. Ask Me Don’t be annoyed when your children ask…
Spiritual Adultery
Jeremiah 3:20-21 Introduction A. This sin was the greatest in the history of Israel. B. It brought punishment from God. C. An application to the Church: D. Worse than the Scarlet Sin in the social world is the Spiritual Adultery committed by those who are married to God. This sin: Conditions of Spiritual Adultery A….
Joseph: Step-father of Jesus
Joseph was a working father, a carpenter, Matthew 13:55. Joseph was a compassionate father. A. He honored his family, Matthew 1:19. B. He provided for his family, Luke 2:7. C. He was present for his family, Luke 2:8-33. Joseph was a dedicated father, Luke 2:8-33. A. He was the spiritual leader of his home, Luke…
Eternity
I Shall Rise I shall rise from the dead, from the prostration, from the prosternation of death, and never miss the sun, which shall be put out, for I shall see the Son of God, the Sun of Glory, and shine myself as that sun shines. I shall rise from the grave, and never miss…
Enthusiasm
Giving Up on Enthusiasm To give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. –Samual Ullman Tough to Hide Feelings An easterner who walked into a western saloon was amazed to see a dog sitting at a table playing poker with three men. He asked, “Can that dog really play cards?” One of the men answered, “Yeah, but…
Endurance
Pressing On In a far country lived a band of minstrels who traveled from town to town presenting music to make a living. They had not been doing well. Times were hard; there was little money for common folk to come to hear the minstrels, even though their fee was small. Attendance had been falling…
Tithing
Malachi 3:8-12 Introduction A Bible salesman came to the door of the house of an elderly woman and asked if he could sell her a Bible. “My goodness!” she exclaimed. “We have more Bibles than we can use now. We have an Old Testament Bible, a New Testament Bible, a Holy Bible, and we even…
The “T” Word: Tithe
Malachi 3:6-12 Thesis: As Christ become the Supreme Lord of my life, stewardship becomes the rule of His Lordship. A Nation of Backsliders A. The Complainer B. God’s Response: “I the Lord do not change,” v. 6 An Invitation to Repentance, v. 7b A. “Return / repent to Me and I will return to you.”…