Today’s message was written by Rev. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. A young woman stood before Beethoven’s piano in a Vienna museum. Presently she struck a few discordant notes. “I suppose,” she said to an attendant, “that many noted musicians have inspected this instrument.” “Oh, yes,” replied the man. “Recently Paderewski was here.” “Paderewski!” […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. It is an old story, but it is true, and it is good. The famous British author John Ruskin one night in his later years sat watching a lamplighter who, with a torch in his hand, was lighting the lamps on a distant […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. The pain of this world is an opportunity for us to be an instrument of God’s redemptive healing. Or said another way, we have the opportunity to be an ambassador for Christ amid someone else’s pain. Dr. James Stewart, the brilliant professor of […]
Today’s message was written by my friend rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, Founder of Dial Hope. A good memory is a wonderful gift! The truth is that there aren’t many people with photographic memories. In fact, most of us suffer from memories that fail us at the most inopportune times. Some poet once said this about […]
Friend of Dial Hope, one of the common mistakes in religion is made by people who try to live on negatives, people who are whiners. They are against that but do not seem to be emphatically for something of their own allegiance. They can tell you with deep emotion what they are against, but if […]
Today’s message was written by my friend, Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. We often see a sign over stores reading “under new management.” Friend of Dial Hope, when God takes over the management of our lives we may still blunder, and we may still present the same old face to the world, but there […]
Today’s message was written by my friend Roger Kunkel, Founder of Dial Hope. When I was a student at Princeton Theological Seminary, I had the privilege of attending a concert by the great singer Marian Anderson. The evening’s program was brought to a close with three songs sung by Leontyne Price. Before singing them, Ms. […]
Today’s message was written by my friend, Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. Psalm 121 is one of my favorites. “l will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord who made heaven and earth.” In THE MESSAGE, Eugene Peterson translates Psalm 121 this way: […]
Today’s message was written by my friend, Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. In Psalm 8:1 we read: “O, Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” The sun was taking its last breath of the day and the moon began to shine in its place of honor. Only a small […]
Today’s message was written by my friend, Rev. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. To the multitude thronging Jesus, the woman who touched his clothes was a nobody. But to Jesus, she was a person, someone of value. He stopped, looked around, and said, “Somebody has touched me.” Christ individualized the woman’s touch and brought […]
