Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. Because of the coming of Jesus Christ, Christmas is the good news that hope is real. Hope is always a faith possibility. In Hebrews 10:23 we read: “Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. A schoolteacher once asked a group of children to write down on a card the one thing in the world they were most thankful for. Most of the children wrote down the usual predictable things, but one boy in the class said […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. Some of you have seen the very popular Life’s Little Instruction Book. It contains a series of short, pertinent sayings that give helpful advice for living. A companion volume entitled Life’s Little Instruction Book for Preachers could well include the following: […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. Scientific research is now confirming what many of us have suspected all along – that love plays a big part in the healing of a hurting body. The poet Elizabeth Barrett was an invalid for many years, unable to lift her head […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. One of my favorite Peanuts comic strips is one that was printed some years ago, just a few days before Thanksgiving. Lucy is feeling sorry for herself, and she laments, “My life is a drag. I’m completely fed up. I’ve never […]
Today’s message was written by my friend Rev. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. From the Bible, the Manufacturer’s Handbook, come these inspiring words that lift our spirits: “While (the Prodigal Son) was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. A small dog had been struck by a car and was lying wounded by the side of the road. A doctor driving by noticed that the dog was still alive, stopped his car, picked up the dog, and took him home. […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. I want to begin this meditation with a passage from the New Testament, 1 Peter 1:22: “Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. George Bernard Shaw called Beethoven, “the most turbulent spirit that ever found expression in pure sound. The power of the Ninth Symphony is the turbulent joy of humanity.” Of course, when turbulence runs our lives, everything becomes chaotic, crazy. But that isn’t […]
Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope. Listen to this profound epitaph found on an English gravestone: “What I kept, I lost. What I spent, I had. What I gave, I have.” Friend of Dial Hope, as you well know, the art of keeping isn’t all bad. There […]
