Wealth from Slavery

“The economic record of slavery in general as a source of lasting economic development is unimpressive. Slavery was concentrated in the southern part of the United States and in the northern part of Brazil—and, in both cases, these remained the less prosperous and...

Two Kinds of Men

“There are two kinds of men who never amount to very much: Those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.” – Cyrus H.K. Curtis

Three-part Sermon

The three-part sermon: I will tell you what I’m going to tell you; I tell you; then I tell you what I told you. I appreciate the value of repetition and focus, but I prefer this three-part formula: I will tell you; then I will tell you the same thing in a...

Jesus

“Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.” – George Whitefield

Jesus

“That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty an ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.” – Will...

Two Kinds of People

“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done’, and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.'” – C.S. Lewis