What does a wealthy, widowed businesswoman, a suicidal jail keeper, a fortune teller and a prisoner all have in common? Well, these were the tools God used in establishing the first church in Europe, which was the church at Philippi. I want you to turn with me this morning to the book of Philippians. As we begin a new study on Sunday mornings, straight through this wonderful New...

I read in the paper that the census workers are going to be in the Shoals area, I guess over the next few days. And that reminded me of a humorous story I read where a census worker was at the door of a certain main, and uh, asking those questions. You know, some of them make sense, some of them do not. He came to the question...

There’s a story told of John Wesley, the great evangelist and founder of the Methodist Church. Says that one day when he was preaching at open air meeting, two ruffians came in the back of the area, picked up stones, and had the expressed intention of disrupting that meeting. With their rocks in hand, they walked up toward the front of the the altar there, standing there in...

In Enterprise, Alabama they have a very unusual monument. They have a monument to an insect, the boll weevil. Turns out that many years ago, the cotton crop was all but destroyed by this pest. Researchers were brought in to find out what could be done, and the researchers suggested that they grow peanuts instead. And it turned out that the peanut crop brought in much more money,...

Dr. Vance Havner was a great, great man of God. He used to say that most Christians are so sub-normal if some of them start acting normal, everyone else will think they are abnormal. Most Christians are so sub-normal, should some start acting normal, everyone else will think they are abnormal. Well, Paul has a lot to say about this normal Christian life as we continue out study...