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James Fraser (1886-1938), missionary to the Lisu people in China, gave this testimony about prayer: “I read a testimony of Dr. Stuart Holden’s, not long ago, in which he said that one of the greatest blessings of his life had been his unanswered prayers...
The widow got what she wanted because of her importunity. She stayed with it. She wouldn’t accept ‘no’ for an answer...
Christian Book Distributors has two limited-time offers that should be of interest to preachers and other serious Bible students. "Systematic Theology" by Lewis Perry Chafer is a four volume hardback set (originally eight volumes) of about 3000 pages. It is the most extensive theology I know of that is both dispensational and premillennial. I have always found Chafer to be a bit dry in his writing style and, as with everyone, I disagree in areas, but the work is a great reference tool. The entire set is being offered for $49.99. I paid quite a bit more for my set. I highly recommend this to preachers. This may be your best time to get it.
When historian David Benedict saw the church planter Abraham Marshall in the early 1800's, he was growing old in years. Marshall sent a message to his friends in New England. "Tell them that I am yet in the land of the dying, but...
Brainstorming is an example of a business fad with no solid evidence of value. Tuesday's "Wall Street Journal" (6-13-06) states that the "popularity of brainstorming results in part from corporate America's knee-jerk faith in teams." John Clark, a former university dean of engineering, admits, "I can't remember a single instance where a group produced a really creative idea." Paul B. Paulus, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas, conducted research that concluded: "group brainstormers perform at about half the level they would if they brainstormed alone." According to David Perkins of Harvard Graduate School of Education, brainstorming is "plainly inefficient." "The best way to get good ideas is to get people to write them down privately and then bring them in." The popularity of brainstorming, despite its lack of supporting evidence, is another example of the fads that run our businesses. Unfortunately, it is also an example of the fads that run our churches. The difference is that the fads become fully engrained in the churches about the time that the secular world has determined them to be junk. We see this especially in "Christian psychology" where the world's castaway ideas of yesterday become the "new" movements of the churches. We would be much better served by staying with Bible principles. We may learn some practical things from the secular arena, but we must base all we do on the absolute principles of God's word.