Entries by Joe Albright

Random and Intentional Acts of Kindness

Got Hope? Tell us why? Visit us on our website or Facebook for details. In 1941, Sofia Banya, a poor Polish farm woman, found that she did not have enough money to purchase food for her family at the village store. The Jewish shopkeeper, Israel Rubinek, told her to take the food and repay him […]

One Step at a Time

Got Hope? Tell us why? Visit us on our website or Facebook for details. Modern archeologists uncovered something very peculiar about the ancient Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Apparently, the southern set of stairs – where pilgrims would ascend to the temple were an engineering mess! The rise and stretch of the steps varied tremendously – […]

Rejoice, Pray, Give Thanks

Got Hope? Tell us why? Visit us on our website or Facebook for details. The Apostle Paul once wrote, “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” Very rarely in scripture does Paul, or anyone else for that matter, say this […]

The Gift of Hospitality

Got Hope? Tell us why? Visit us on our website or Facebook for details. Henri Nouwen, once told about a time when he visited a monastery on retreat. The monks at that monastery observed vows of silence and the retreat was to be meditative and prayerful. Nouwen was delayed and had to arrive late on […]

The Message of Grace

Got Hope? Tell us why? Visit us on our website or Facebook for details. In his book Proof Timothy Paul Jones writes about his middle daughter who is adopted. She had been adopted before, but that family put her back in the foster care system. For some reason, they had not treated this little girl […]

How You Play the Game

Got Hope? Tell us why? Visit us on our website or Facebook for details. Dick Howser was a much loved manager of the Kansas City Royals baseball team in the 1980’s. When he resigned due to brain cancer, his wife Nancy said, “As a child I was brought up to believe that it is not […]

Prayers Made of Action

Got Hope? Tell us why? Visit us on our website or Facebook for details. I heard recently about a group of women from a small suburban church who would meet every Tuesday to pray. Because their faithfulness in prayer was so well known in their area, they would get prayer requests from far and wide. […]

Love and you are a Success!

Got Hope? Tell us why? Visit us on our website or Facebook for details. John 3:16 reminds us, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son…” One of the great Christian thinkers, William Sloane Coffin, reminded us that while Abraham lived to be a ripe old age, Jesus died young. “But […]

Let the Children Come Unto Me…

Got Hope? Tell us why? Visit us on our website or Facebook for details. For many years, Tony Campolo spent much of his time traveling around the world as an inspirational Christian speaker. His wife, Peggy, on the other hand, chose to be a stay at home mom. Occasionally, when Peggy traveled with her husband, […]

Harnessing the Energies of Love

Got Hope? Tell us why? Visit us on our website or Facebook for details. Famous anthropologist Margaret Meed was once asked about the earliest sign of civilization in any given culture. Surprisingly, the answer was not a clay pot or a fish hook or even a grinding stone. Instead she said it was “a healed […]