Authority is an issue today‑‑in science, in business, in government, and even in religion.  By whose authority do you do this? 

It is said that in 1861 the French Academy of Science printed a brochure stating that there are 51 incontrovertible facts that are direct contradictions of the Bible. Today there is not one reputable scientist who would believe a single one of them.  Why?  Has the Bible changed!

Francois Marie Voltaire, the French agnostic, said that Christianity would not survive him by a hundred years, yet a hundred years after his death the Geneva Bible Society purchased his old home and upon Voltaire's own press, printed a complete edition of the Bible. 

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the British expositor of bygone days, told the story of a poor woman who was confronted by a modern agnostic who asked, "What are you reading?"  She replied, "The Bible, the Word of God." 

Authority in our world is as necessary to the survival of the human race as are good nutrition and clean air.

Why do so many people pray to a living God and believe in Jesus Christ, but down deep in their heart, they just don't feel much of anything? 

The human brain, your brain, functions with the storage capacity of 100 million megabytes of memory (in computer terminology).

Scores of people pray the Apostles’ Creed and affirm, "I believe in God the Father, maker of Heaven and Earth..."

A stockbroker who writes a large check to his favorite charity, a Buddhist priest who with shaven head goes on a long journey, and a young woman who takes a vow of chastity and goes into a convent don't have much in common, but there is one thing which they do share.

Carol Tullar was working alone one Friday morning at a popular, rather swinging dinner spot which features salad selections in a large bathtub filled with ice.  Carol heard the doorbell ring and went to see who was there.