by Paul E Chapman | Oct 13, 2019 | Encouragement, Illustration, Poetry
This famous poem challenges us to live for those who come after us. What will you leave behind? Will Allen Dromgoole wrote over 7,500 poems, 5,000 essays, and thirteen published books. This poem is one of her most famous. It was often reprinted and remains popular...
by Paul E Chapman | May 12, 2019 | Encouragement, Illustration, Teaching
In 1967 Bobbie Pingaro wrote an article titled “The Meanest Mother in the World.” On this Mother’s Day, these words may remind us of mothers we know – or have known – and should be again. “I had the meanest mother in the whole world. While...
by Paul E Chapman | Jan 13, 2018 | Illustration, Stewardship
This much-used essay seems to get more relevant as time passes… We have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways but narrower viewpoints; we spend more but have less; we buy more but enjoy it less; we have bigger houses and smaller families; more...
by Paul E Chapman | Feb 23, 2017 | Illustration, Poetry
The Lord gave me this poem as I was meditating on the condition of the unbelieving world and our responsibility to reach them with the Glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ. I pray it will minister to your heart. Multitudes lost and hopeless, I can hear their cry....