“WHY FIVE SMOOTH STONES?”

“Then he took his staff in his hand and chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook and put them in the shepherd’s bag which he had, that is, in his shepherd’s pouch, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine.” (I Samuel 17: 40 NASB) You will learn a lot from the following excerpt from an old “Daily Bread” publication about David choosing five smooth...

REACTING TO THE WORD

“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.  And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.” (Matthew 7:24-25 NASB)” According to Virginia Johnson, a graduate student, the average reaction time for...

WHAT HAVE YOU ALWAYS DONE AFTER A BREAK?

“And six days later Jesus took with Him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up on a high mountain by themselves.  And He was transfigured before them, and His garments became radiant and exceedingly white, as no launderer on earth can whiten them.  And Elijah appeared to them along with Moses; and they were talking with Jesus.  Peter responded and said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good...