PROPHECY
PROPHECY
(see also FORECASTING)
Fiedler's Forecasting Rules. (1) It is very difficult to forecast, especially about the future. (2) He who live...
PROOF
PROOF
The renowned artist Paul Gustave Dore (1821-1883) lost his passport while traveling in Europe. When he came to a border crossing, he explained his p...
PROPHECY, gift of
PROPHECY, gift of
Wesley was not an advocate of sensationalism in preaching. But on one occasion, he interrupted his own sermon and shouted,
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PROPHET, false
PROPHET, false
Characterized by:
1. Adultery (Jer. 23:14)
2. Lying (Micah 2:11)
3. Treachery (Zeph. 3:4)
PUNISHMENT
PUNISHMENT
In South Africa, naturist club owner Beau Brummell was irked by accusations from morals watchdogs that a shriveling Transvaal drought was broug...
PURITY
PURITY
We can supplement our accountability to others by reading slowly through literature designed to challenge our Christian maturity. Consider, as an e...
PURPOSE
PURPOSE
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusia...
PURPOSE STATEMENT
PURPOSE STATEMENT
Our purpose is to glorify God by making disciples of all people groups and multiplying churches so that believers worship God, win unbel...
QUALITY
QUALITY
Mind, it is our best work that He wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think He must prefer quality to quantity.
George MacDona...
Questions
Questions
The Boston Globe, which carries a daily column designed to answer readers' queries, listed the top ten unanswerable questions. Here's ...
QUIET TIME
QUIET TIME
In a letter to his friends, hymn writer Wendell P. Loveless related this story: One evening a speaker who was visiting the United States wanted...
QUITTING
QUITTING
(see also PERSISTENCE)
Ten years ago for every wife who left her family, 600 husbands did. Today for each man who leaves, two women ...
RACE
RACE
It is a most lamentable thing to see how most people spend their time and their energy for trifles, while God is cast aside. He who is all seems to t...
RAIN
RAIN
Back in 1839 James Espy claimed that rain could easily be produced by heating the air. But his plan to saturate parched farmland by building great lo...
RANDOM
RANDOM
It takes just seven ordinary, imperfect shuffles to mix a deck of cards thoroughly, researchers have found. Fewer are not enough, and more do not s...
RAPTURE
RAPTURE
All over the Northeast, half a million Adventists -- disciples of New York evangelist William Miller -- awaited the end of the world on April 3, 1...
RATIONALIZE
RATIONALIZE
Allowing my mind to find reasons to excuse what my spirit knows is wrong.
Romans 2:21.
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REACTION
REACTION
Georges Gurdijieff, on natural man:
Each man has a definite repertoire of roles which he plays in ordinary circumstances. But put hi...
REALISM
REALISM
In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared...
REALITY
REALITY
Shortly after I got my driver's license I was driving too close to the middle of a narrow road and I sideswiped another car. The crash tore t...