Asking for the Impossible

Read Joshua 9:1 through 10:43 Marvin, a new Christian, stood by the door of the city mission hoping for the arrival of several old friends who took drugs with him until the day he accepted Christ. Marvin thought it would be impossible to get them to attend a service at the mission. But Lucas, a mission worker who was discipling …

Multiplication by Division

Read Deuteronomy 26:1 through 27:26 The secret to the growth of living organisms is multiplication by division. This principle works in the financial realm also. Investors must give up a portion of their money to gain more. God’s law of financial growth is the tithe. When you have finished setting aside a tenth of all your produce in the third …

Hold That Thought

Read Deuteronomy 1:1 through 4:49 Does my cell phone cause cancer? Will I be the victim of identify theft? What will be the global impact of rising levels of carbon dioxide? What are my chances of contracting bird flu? How contagious is HIV? Will we experience a worldwide nuclear war? These questions and hundreds more, whether or not they represent …

Too Simple?

Read Numbers 20:1 through 24:25 At Vienna General Hospital in the mid 1800s, about 12 percent of new mothers died from puerperal fever. Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis observed that the doctors were spreading the disease by not properly cleaning their hands. He began a system of hand washing that drastically cut the death rate. Prominent physicians opposed Semmelweis’ ideas, claiming his …