Before baseball rsquo s World Series sportswriter Hugh Fullerton made an astute prediction He said the Chicago Cubs who were expected to win would lose the first and third games and win the second Oh and it would rain on the fourth He was right on each point Then in his analytical skills told him certain players were losing World Series games intentionally Fullerton suspected they rsquo d been bribed by gamblers Popular opinion ridiculed him Again he was right Fullerton was no prophet mdash just a wise man who studied the evidence Jeremiah was a real prophet whose prophecies [... more]

The owner of the bookstore where Keith worked had been away on vacation for only two days but Keith his assistant was already panicking Operations were smooth but Keith was anxious that he wouldn rsquo t do a good job overseeing the store Frenetically he micromanaged all he could ldquo Stop it rdquo his boss finally told him over a video call ldquo All you have to do is follow the instructions I email you daily Don rsquo t worry Keith The burden isn rsquo t on you it rsquo s on me rdquo In a time of conflict with [... more]

People often misquote the Bible to claim that money is the root of all evil Is it wrong to be wealthy Is it somehow godlier to live in poverty Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg explores the biblical answers ----------------------------------------- Click here and look for FROM THE SERMON to stream or read the full message This program is part of the series 'A Study in James Volume Warnings against Worldliness ' Learn more about our current resource request your copy with a donation of any amount Helpful Resources - Learn about God's salvation plan - Read our most [... more]

Will I make the Olympics The college swimmer worried her speed was too slow But when math professor Ken Ono studied her swim techniques he saw how to improve her time by six full seconds mdash a substantial difference at that level of competition Attaching sensors to the swimmer rsquo s back he didn rsquo t identify major changes to improve her time Instead Ono identified tiny corrective actions that if applied could make the swimmer more efficient in the water making the winning difference Small corrective actions in spiritual matters can make a big difference for us too The [... more]

The first photograph of a living person was taken by Louis Daguerre in The photo depicts a figure on an otherwise empty avenue in Paris in the middle of an afternoon But there rsquo s an apparent mystery about it the street and sidewalks should have been bustling with the traffic of carriages and pedestrians at that time of day yet none can be seen The man wasn rsquo t alone People and horses were there on the busy Boulevard du Temple the popular area where the photo was taken They just didn rsquo t show up in the picture [... more]

In archaeologist Gabriel Barkay unearthed two small silver scrolls It took years to delicately unroll the metal scrolls and each was found to contain a Hebrew etching of the blessing from Numbers ndash ldquo The Lord bless you and keep you the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace rdquo Scholars date the scrolls to the seventh century BC They rsquo re the oldest known bits of Scripture in the world Equally interesting is where they were found Barkay was digging in a cave [... more]

When my daughter received a pair of pet crabs as a gift she filled a glass tank with sand so the creatures could climb and dig She supplied water protein and vegetable scraps for their dining pleasure They seemed happy so it was shocking when they disappeared one day We searched everywhere Finally we learned they were likely under the sand and would be there for about two months as they shed their exoskeletons Two months passed and then another month elapsed and I had begun to worry that they rsquo d died The longer we waited the more impatient [... more]

During a trip to the zoo I stopped to rest near the sloth exhibit The creature hung upside down He seemed content being completely still I sighed Because of my health issues I struggled with stillness and desperately wanted to move forward to do something mdash anything Resenting my limitations I longed to stop feeling so weak But while staring at the sloth I observed how he stretched one arm gripped a nearby branch and stopped again Being still required strength If I wanted to be content with moving slow or being as still as the sloth I needed more [... more]

Jose a seventy-seven-year-old substitute teacher had been living out of his car for eight years Every night the elderly man bunked down in his Ford Thunderbird LX carefully monitoring the car battery as it powered his computer for his evening rsquo s work Jose used the money earmarked for rent and instead sent it to numerous family members in Mexico who needed it more Early every morning one of the teacher rsquo s former students saw Jose rummaging through his trunk ldquo I just felt I needed to do something about it rdquo the man said So he launched a [... more]

Join us as we celebrate the Person and Work of Jesus Christ This special music service is led by the musicians of Grace Church and is comprised of songs and Scripture readings that remind us to look unto Christ the Author and Finisher of our faith lest we grow discouraged in our souls For more information about Grace Church please visit us at www graceharrisburg org [... more]

Join us for worship- For more information about Grace Church please visit www graceharrisburg org [... more]

In as the US economy crashed millions of people lost everything But not Floyd Odlum As everyone else panicked and sold their stocks at cut-rate prices Odlum appeared to foolishly jump in and purchase stocks just as the nation rsquo s future disintegrated But Odlum rsquo s ldquo foolish rdquo perspective paid off yielding robust investments that endured for decades God told Jeremiah to make what seemed like an absolutely ludicrous investment ldquo buy the field at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin rdquo Jeremiah This was no time to be buying fields however The entire country was on the [... more]

Many people desire a god of their own design one whose purpose is to grant their every wish But a man-made god offers little comfort when our circumstances become overwhelming Learn who God really is when you join us on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg Listen [... more]

A third-generation farmer Jim was so moved when he read ldquo You who revere my name will go and frolic like well-fed calves rdquo Malachi that he prayed to receive Jesus rsquo offer of eternal life Vividly recalling his own calves rsquo leaps of excitement after exiting their confined stalls at high speed Jim finally understood God rsquo s promise of true freedom Jim rsquo s daughter told me this story because we lsquo d been discussing the imagery in Malachi where the prophet made a distinction between those who revered God rsquo s name or remained faithful to Him [... more]

Once you encounter the holiness of God your life will never be the same Today R C Sproul begins his classic series on God's holiness by addressing how important this divine attribute is for our understanding of who God is and who we are Get R C Sproul's 'The Holiness of God' Teaching Series DVD Book and Study Guide for Your Gift of Any Amount https gift renewingyourmind org holiness-of-god Don't forget to make RenewingYourMind org your home for daily in-depth Bible study and Christian resources [... more]

Join us for worship- For more information about Grace Church please visit www graceharrisburg org [... more]

nbsp Alice Kaholusuna recounts a story of how the Hawaiian people would sit outside their temples for a lengthy amount of time preparing themselves before entering in Even after entering they would creep to the altar to offer their prayers Afterward they would sit outside again for a long time to ldquo breathe life rdquo into their prayers When missionaries came to the island not always but sometimes their prayers felt different They would stand up utter a few sentences call them ldquo prayer rdquo say amen and be done with it The Hawaiians described these prayers as ldquo without [... more]

My family lives in a nearly century-old house with a lot of character including wonderfully textured plaster walls A builder cautioned me that with these walls to hang a picture up I rsquo d have to either drill the nail into a wood support or use a plaster anchor for support Otherwise I rsquo d risk the picture crashing to the ground leaving an ugly hole behind The prophet Isaiah used the imagery of a nail driven firmly into a wall to describe a minor biblical character named Eliakim Unlike the corrupt official Shebna vv ndash as well as the [... more]

Baby Saybie born as a ldquo micro-preemie rdquo at weeks weighed only ounces Doctors doubted Saybie would live and told her parents they rsquo d likely have only an hour with their daughter However Saybie kept fighting A pink card near her crib declared ldquo Tiny but Mighty rdquo After five months in the hospital Saybie miraculously went home as a healthy five-pound baby And she took a world record with her the world rsquo s tiniest surviving baby It rsquo s powerful to hear stories of those who beat the odds The Bible tells one of these stories David [... more]

Argentina rsquo s women rsquo s basketball team came to their tournament game wearing the wrong uniforms Their navy blue jerseys were too similar to Columbia rsquo s dark blue jerseys and as the visiting team they should have worn white With no time to find replacement uniforms and change they had to forfeit the game In the future Argentina will surely double-check What are we wearing In the time of the prophet Zechariah God showed him a vision in which the high priest Joshua came before God wearing smelly filthy clothes Satan sneered and pointed He rsquo s disqualified [... more]

We stared at the piles of donated shoes as we entered a local homeless shelter The director had invited our youth group to help sort through the heaps of used footwear We spent the morning searching for matches and lining them up in rows across the concrete floor At the end of the day we threw away more than half of the shoes because they were too damaged to give to people Though the shelter couldn rsquo t stop people from giving poor quality items they refused to distribute shoes that were in bad condition The Israelites struggled with giving [... more]