Matthew 28:1-10 Introduction The hope and help of the Christian is the death and resurrection of Jesus. The hope is in His death (sin put away) and the help is the resurrection (He lives to help us), The Morning of the Resurrection, v. 1 The greatest morning was when the women found the stone rolled…
Author: Alan Holden
Dignity
Beliefs Men Live By Man is not on this earth merely to be happy, not even to be simply honest. He is there to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility and to surmount the vulgarity in which the existence of almost all individuals drags on. –Vincent Van Gogh Called to be Eagles A…
Determination
Building and Destroying To build may have to be the show and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. –Winston Churchill So, Do Something about It A young boy complained to his father that most of the church hymns were boring and old-fashioned, with tiresome words that…
Charlotte “Lottie” Moon
“Pastor, will we ever pay off this old woman’s debt?” was the question asked during a Wednesday evening prayer meeting. “Seems like we take up a collection for this same old woman every Christmas. Just who is Lottie Moon?” Many of us who have been raised in Southern Baptist churches set offering goals for “Lottie.”…
Cooperation
Working as a Team Some missionaries in the Philippines set up a croquet game in their front yard. Several of their Agta Negrito neighbors became interested and wanted to join the fun. The missionaries explained the game and started them out, each with a mallet and ball. As the game progressed, opportunity came for one…
Courage
Courage to Take a Stand When Honorius was emperor of Rome, about the year AD 400, the great Coliseum of Rome was often filled to overflowing with spectators. These had come from far and near to view the state games. Part of the sport consisted in watching as human beings battled with wild beasts or…
Credibility
Real Credibility If you tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe, he’ll believe you. But if you tell him a bench has just been painted, he has to touch it to be sure. The Right to Remain Silent Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned…
Criticism
In Neon How would you like a job where, if you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and eighteen thousand people boo? –Former hockey goalie Jacques Plante Mass Criticism If one person call you an ass or a donkey, pay no attention to him. But if five people call you one, go…
Cynics
Marvelous Discovery The story is going around that up in the Stanford Research Laboratories they have made an important change in procedure recently. Instead of using rats in their experiments, they are now using attorneys. When asked why this change was initiated, the head of the lab said: “Well, there are two reasons: there are…
Death
New Perspective For centuries it appeared to human beings that the earth was stationary and that the sun moved around it. Then a man named Copernicus came along and proved that what seemed obvious on the surface was not, in fact, true. It was the earth that was moving around the sun, not the sun…