Truer words have never been written than those that follow from Dorothy Sayers’ pen. Educated at Oxford, Sayers was a prolific playwright, novelist, and Christian apologist. She was a friend of Charles Williams, one of the famous group known as the Inklings.

Pastor John Scripture Reference: Revelation 2:1-29

Kenichi Uchino, a quality control manager with Toyota, was worked off his feet, quite literally, in fact. He collapsed and died at 4 AM while at work after clocking more than eighty hours of overtime for each of the six months prior to his death in 2002. Only a few days earlier, he remarked to his wife, “The moment when I am happiest is when I can sleep.” Kenichi, the third generation of his family to work for the Japanese firm, left behind two children, aged three and one. On November 30, 2007, Nagoya District Court accepted Hiroko Uchino’s claim […]

[Jesus said] 18b “Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 19 since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled? (Thus he declared all foods clean.) 20 And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery . . . Mark 7:18b-21 (ESV) Everyone knows to speak differently to children than to adults, for a child lacks the maturity and understanding needed to handle adult matters. The same […]

   From 5 to 8 PM, Sunday, July 5, the First Baptist Church of Perryville will host another free block party for Perryville families, by Rodgers Tavern near the Susquehanna River.

   As the Nazi swastika was raised over Buchenwald prison camp, the command, “Caps off!” blared through the loudspeakers. On this May morning in 1938, every prisoner instantly obeyed, except one scrawny pastor from the Rhineland, Paul Schneider. His fellow inmates glanced fearfully toward the guards. These prisoners knew the young preacher was no coward, but this was madness.

   The people of Newburyport, Massachusetts were scandalized in the summer of 2004 when their mayor, Mary Anne Clancy, admitted to an affair with a married gym teacher. Clancy never imagined her tryst would be discovered. It only lasted a few weeks, there was never any physical contact, and all the evidence could be erased at the touch of a button. But when her husband Brian found the romantic e-mails his wife had exchanged with her paramour, he followed the man home, assaulted him, and then found himself in jail.

Pastor Mike Scripture Reference: Exodus 33

   by Bob Carpenter HOLT, Mich. (BP)–Last year our church focused on the Bible’s instruction to love harmony and unity. As the Bible says in Philippians 2:2, “Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.” We tried to teach our church members that the laissez-faire commitment to church membership which characterizes our times is not God’s way of thinking.

    As new believers in 1950, Bob and Fae Tripp were committed to raising their children according to the Word of God. Their children knew that Sunday worship “was a nonnegotiable part”1 of their weekly schedule and that each day began with a time of family devotion. Bob was not a pastor and not even a great teacher, but he was faithful in leading his family to understand what 19th-century Presbyterian pastor and Princeton professor James W. Alexander called the “feeling that God must be honored in everything, that no business of life can proceed without Him.”2