by Marie | Dec 26, 2025 | Archives, Inspiration
Taste of the Apple A well-respected scholar and avowed atheist was speaking at a large outdoor picnic. He spoke for two and a half hours attempting to prove that the… Taste of the Apple A well-respected scholar and avowed atheist was speaking at a large outdoor picnic. He spoke for two and a half hours attempting to prove that the resurrection of Jesus was false. He quoted scholar after scholar and book after book. He concluded that since there was no such thing as a historical resurrection, the religious tradition of the church was groundless emotional nonsense because it was based on a relationship with a risen Jesus, who never rose from the dead in any literal sense. He then asked if there were any questions. After about 30 seconds, an old preacher stood up. “Sir, I have one question,” he said as all eyes turned toward him. He reached into his sack lunch and pulled out an apple he had been eating. “My question is a simple question,” he said before taking another bite of the apple. He continued, “I haven’t read all the books you have, and I can’t recite the Scriptures in the original Greek.” He took a couple more bites of the apple and said, “I don’t know a thing about Niebuhr and Heidegger.” He finished
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by Marie | Dec 25, 2025 | Archives, Inspiration
Public Prayer I don’t believe in Santa Claus, but I’m not going to sue somebody for singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December. I don’t agree with Darwin, but I didn’t… Public Prayer I don’t believe in Santa Claus, but I’m not going to sue somebody for singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December. I don’t agree with Darwin, but I didn’t go out and hire a lawyer when my high school teacher taught his theory of evolution. Neither life, liberty, nor your pursuit of happiness will be endangered because someone says a 30-second prayer before a football game. What’s the big deal? It’s not like somebody is up there reading the entire book of Acts. They’re just talking to a God they believe in and asking him to grant safety to the players on the field and the fans going home from the game. “But it’s a Christian prayer,” some will argue. Yes, and this is the United States of America, a country founded because Christians wanted the freedom to practice their religion. Christian churches outnumber all others here, so what would you expect? Is it somebody chanting Hare Krishna? If I went to a football game in Jerusalem, I would expect to hear a Jewish prayer. If I went to a soccer game in Baghdad, I would expect to hear
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by Marie | Dec 24, 2025 | Archives, Inspiration
Leaving 99 Okay, here’s what you do. Read the two accounts of the story. Then, listen to the song while looking at the lyrics. STORY: Matthew 18:12-14 “What do you… Leaving 99 Okay, here’s what you do. Read the two accounts of the story. Then, listen to the song while looking at the lyrics. STORY: Matthew 18:12-14 “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that anyone should be lost. Luke 15:3-7 Then Jesus told them this parable: “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbours together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you that in the same way, there will
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by Marie | Dec 23, 2025 | Archives, Inspiration
Highway 109 A drunk man in an Oldsmobile, They said, had run the light That caused the six-car pileup On 109 that night. When broken bodies lay about And blood… Highway 109 A drunk man in an Oldsmobile, They said, had run the light That caused the six-car pileup On 109 that night. When broken bodies lay about And blood was everywhere, The sirens screamed out elegies, For death was in the air. A mother, trapped inside her car, Was heard above the noise; Her plaintive plea nearly split the air: “Oh, God, please spare my boys!” She fought to lose her pinned hands; She struggled to get free, But mangled metal held her fast. In grim captivity. Her frightened eyes then focused. On where the back seat once had been, But all she saw was broken glass and Two children’s seats were crushed in. Her twins were nowhere to be seen; She did not hear them cry, And then she prayed they’d been thrown free, “Oh, God, don’t let them die!” Then firemen came and cut her loose, But when they searched the back, They found therein no little boys, But the seat belts were intact. They thought the woman had gone mad. And was travelling alone, But when they turned to question her, They discovered she was gone.
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by Marie | Dec 22, 2025 | Archives, Inspiration
An Email From Heaven One day, God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the rascally behaviour that was going on. He decided to send an angel down… An Email From Heaven One day, God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the rascally behaviour that was going on. He decided to send an angel down to Earth to check it out. So, he called one of His angels and sent the angel to Earth for a time. When he returned, he told God, “Yes, it is bad on Earth; 95% are misbehaving and 5% are not.” God thought for a moment and said, “Maybe I had better send down a second angel to get another opinion.” So God called another angel and sent him to Earth for a time too. When the angel returned he went to God and said, “Yes, it’s true. The Earth is in decline; 95% are misbehaving and 5% are being good.” God was not pleased. So, He decided to e-mail the 5% that were good, because He wanted to encourage them and give them a little something to help them keep going. Do you know what that e-mail said? No? Oh, so you didn’t get one either? Meditation: All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one,
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by Marie | Dec 20, 2025 | Archives, Featured
Fence Man There was a large group of people gathered. On one side of the group stood a man, Jesus. On the other side stood another, Satan. Separating them was… Fence Man There was a large group of people gathered. On one side of the group stood a man, Jesus. On the other side stood another, Satan. Separating them was a fence running through the group. In the scene set, both Jesus and Satan began calling to people in the group. One by one, each having made up his or her mind, went to either Jesus or Satan. This kept going for a time. Soon enough, Jesus had gathered around him a group of people from the larger crowd, as did Satan. One man joined neither group. He climbed the fence that was there and sat on it. Jesus and his people left and disappeared, and so too did Satan and his people. The man on the fence sat alone. As this man sat, Satan came back, looking for something which he appeared to have lost. The man said, “Have you lost something?” Satan looked straight at him and replied, “No, there you are. Come with me.” The man said, “But I sat on the fence. I chose neither you nor him.” Satan said, “That’s okay; I own the fence.”
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