... of the most expensive Interstate highway ever built will cost 200 million dollars a mile. In laboratories an X-ray laser has been developed as a new type of microscope capable of revealing the smallest details ever seen inside ... to be in the image of God. An illustration of how doing so much good can crowd out evil comes from the life of Robert Louis Stevenson. This nineteenth-century author of Treasure Island could not continue to live in England because its damp, cool climate was bad for his health. So he ...
... as a backdrop, Jesus makes this bold claim: "I am the Light of the world." It was the late Bible teacher and pastor Dr. Ray C. Stedman who pointed out that "Jesus does not declare himself merely the Light of Israel--but the Light of the entire world." ... of Robert Louis Stevenson. Mr. Stevenson knew much sickness and spent many moments looking out the window from his bed. One evening found Stevenson doing exactly that. These were the days before electric lights and timers. Robert Louis Stevenson saw the town ...
... it plainly, we are simply betraying the truth of the Gospel and missing the chance of freedom from our wrongs. Robert Louis Stevenson, as a small boy, loved to watch the old lamp lighter go down the street. One night he said to his nurse ... Luminary hanging there stabs life’s murky gloom and sin’s midnight with the high noon of forgiveness! God’s radical X-ray, his laser beam of love, burns our sins away, shrivels them into nothingness in the brightness of Calvary’s glorious and resplendent light ...
Ray Balcomb's Ph.D. is in New Testament studies. He is the author of many books and until his recent appointment as a District ... a list of all the things that are worrying us, and then put the list and worries aside for a week. We’d find that many of the problems had just taken care of themselves. Robert Louis Stevenson used to say that a well-ordered mind in a time of crisis is like a clock in a thunderstorm - it just keeps up its regular ticking. There is a moving scene in the second book of ...
