It Only Takes One

Billy Graham preached a lot of crusades, none more important than the one he preached in Los Angeles when he was 31 years old. A few months earlier, Graham was emotionally crushed when a crusade in Altoona, Pennsylvania, had been a disaster. Billy even considered...

Winning Over Worry

Perhaps you have heard me say that worry is a form of idolatry. Worry is a self-prayer: “Self, you can solve this problem. Self, there has to be a solution. Self…” On a recent podcast, I heard an interview with Dr. David Rosmarin, an associate...

Don’t Do What You Don’t Do Well

One of the most critical decisions in television history and for my personal entertainment was made over 60 years ago. A young television writer and sometime actor for a popular TV variety series in the 1950s decided to write a situation comedy in which he would star....

Never Discouraged

  As baseball season winds down, I am reminded of one of my favorite stories. It seems that a man stopped to watch a Little League Baseball game. He asked one of the youngsters what the score was. “We’re behind 18 to nothing,” the kid answered....

Perspective

One hundred years ago,* the bodies of two men were pulled from the Hudson River near New York City on the same day. One was a poor man who had won $5000 in a sweepstakes contest. He had gone on a spending spree and spent it all. The other body was that of a wealthy...