Daily Growth Point

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. I heard about a church that had a sign out front which read: “We care about you” Underneath in smaller letters it said: “Sundays 10:00 am only.” When Christ walked the dusty roads in Israel, He never once stopped caring for people. No matter if He was physically exhausted or hungry, He cared about others more than Himself. He said, “For the s...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. There is an old joke about a man who ignored an evacuation order given because of a coming flood. As the water began to rise, a rescue officer in a boat came by his house and told him to get in or he might drown. The man replied, “I’m fine. God will take care of me.” When the water continued to rise, he was eventually forced to the roof of hi...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. When President John Q. Adams lost his bid for a second term in the White House, He ran for and won a seat in the House of Representatives. There he would spend most of the rest of his life fighting to end slavery in America. This position was not widely popular when Adams began his efforts, and often he labored nearly alone. Yet he refused to...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, knew the secret of strength through weakness. Complimented once by a friend on the impact of the mission, Hudson answered, “It seemed to me that God looked over the whole world to find a man who was weak enough to do His work, and when He at last found me, He said, ‘He is weak enough—he’ll d...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. For many people, their greatest fear is death. D.L. Moody once said, “Some day you will read in the papers, ‘D.L. Moody of East Northfield is dead.’ Don’t you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal — a body...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. One of the most famous images from all the years of the White House is a photo that shows President Kennedy seated at his desk while his young son, John plays underneath it. The famed “Resolute desk” made from the timbers of a British ship was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880. If you or I went to the White H...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. If you have ever been in a large crowd, you know the feeling of being jostled around by the thong of people. Yet, when Jesus was making His way to the home of Jairus to help his sick daughter, He stopped when a woman, who needed healing reached out by faith to seek his help in her life. Then, in the midst of that throng of people, Christ sing...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. Though medical science was far less advanced in Jesus’ day than it is in ours, there were doctors then who did their best to treat patients. But often the problems were beyond their ability to cure. This was the case with an anonymous woman who had tried everything without being helped. Yet when she heard of the miracles Jesus was performing,...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. Dr. W.A. Criswell told of a visit he paid to a missionary who worked with the lepers of Africa. For days they drove from settlement to settlement, and in each one the missionary would provide medical care and then Dr. Criswell would preach. Criswell said, ‘They had built a little church out of mud. ... I did my best through an interpreter to...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. Dr. A.J. Gordon told of a visitor from England who traveled to see Niagara Falls with a pastor friend from America. When they arrived to view the mighty waterfall, the visitor said, “This must be the greatest unused power in the world!” The pastor replied, “No. The greatest unused power in the world is the Holy Spirit of the living God!” God...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. At the end of Animal Farm, George Orwell’s classic parable about Communism, there is a scene in which the pigs, who have taken over running the farm after the humans were chased away, have a meeting with surrounding farmers. The other animals, watching from outside the farmhouse, make a shocking discovery: “The creatures outside looked from p...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. In Rome, one can visit the Scala Sancta, the twenty-eight marble steps that supposedly once led into Pilate’s judgment hall in Jerusalem. These are the steps which Jesus used as He was taken to His trial before the Roman governor. According to tradition, they were moved to Rome in the early 300’s and since that time, millions of people have c...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. The story is told that as the evangelist D.L. Moody was crossing Lake Michigan to return home after a preaching trip, when a great storm came up. The winds and waves were so strong that the passengers began fearing for their lives. While some gathered in an urgent prayer meeting, Moody remained sitting calmly. When someone asked him why he wa...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. A number of years ago a preacher went to the Champness Hall in Yorkshire, England, to hear Sir John Barbirolli lead the symphony. A friend sitting nearby looked out at the vast crowd in the great hall and asked the preacher, “When will we see the Champness Hall filled to capacity for a Christian service?” The pastor pointed to the members of...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. Though D.L. Moody was a greatly used evangelist, he had little formal education, and it frequently showed in his preaching. It is said that after he finished a sermon in London, a critic came and said, “You made several grammatical errors in your sermon today.” Moody admitted with regret that his language was often faulty. Then looking the ma...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. One of the most important archaeological discoveries in history was made in 1799 when a soldier in Napoleon’s army found the Rosetta stone. Dating to some two hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Rosetta Stone unlocked secrets of the past, because it contained the same decree written in Egyptian hieroglyphics and Greek. By translatin...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. One of the men credited with starting the “Fitness craze” in America was Jim Fixx. His book, “The complete Book of Running” spent eleven weeks as the number one book in America, and Fixx became a frequent media presence. He was hailed as an authority on the health benefits of exercise. But in 1984, Jim Fixx died of a massive heart attack afte...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. At a time when Dallas Theological Seminary was in great financial difficulty, Dr. H.A. Ironside convened a group of leaders and prayed, “Lord, You own the cattle on a thousand hills. Please help us in this time of need.” That very day a check arrived in the mail for the $10,000 they needed. The note enclosed informed them that a rancher had s...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. When the woman the Bible describes as “a sinner” came and washed Jesus’ feet with her tears and poured an expensive ointment on Him, she was expressing something remarkable - unshakable faith! She had been rejected, but Christ offered her hope for a brand new life. There is only one source of salvation and deliverance from sin, and she was pl...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. Marghanita Laski was a prominent author and critic in England during the last century. In addition to her artistic skills, she was noted for her opposition to religion. She was a leading voice for atheism. Yet not long before her death, she is reported to have told a guest, “What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have no...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. If you take a bag of carrots and a half dozen eggs and put them together into a pot of boiling water, they have opposite reactions. The carrots will become soft and tender, while the eggs will harden. The same is true of the response to fire with wax and clay. The difference is not found in the medium of the testing, but in the nature of the...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. The Scottish Pastor Ian MacLaren recounted visiting an elderly lady in his church and finding her weeping. When he asked her what was wrong, she told him that she felt she had not done enough for God with her life. MacLaren then asked her to tell him about her sons. Her three oldest boys were all on the mission field. The youngest was prepari...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. John Wesley and his brother Charles were part of the Great Awakening that shook both England and America in a mighty move of God. In part because of their effectiveness, they faced a great deal of opposition to their preaching. Hecklers disrupted their sermons, and on at least one occasion a bull was released into the field to break up an ope...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. While Dr. J. Vernon McGee was out with a group of pastors, He noticed a carhop that wore the largest cross he had ever seen. He asked her, why she was wearing the cross? Her reply was that she thought it was pretty and wore it as an ornament. Dr. McGee was then able to share with her the truth of the cross and the Saviour that laid down his l...

Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham. While God sometimes answers our prayers immediately, there are other times we must keep praying until the answer comes. Evangelist D.L. Moody told the story of vile man in Scotland that attended his meetings. Moody asked if he could pray for the man, and the infidel just laughed, saying that prayer did not work because God was not real. He he...