Ask And Receive ON ONE OCCASION, Richard and I left Toccoa immediately following his Sunday morning sermon. We needed to be in Asheville, North Carolina, which was 135 miles away, before Monday evening when I was scheduled to teach a Bible study. At that time, the roads were unpaved and on this particular occasion heavy […]

If These Walls Could Talk EARLY ONE MORNING in 1913, Dr. Forrest left Staley Cottage and with an ax and a brush hook cleared a place for a new dining room. After clearing the site, he and the Toccoa Falls Institute family marched around the site singing and giving praise and claiming this site for […]

In Everything Give Thanks WE ALL HAVE MUCH in the past to forget. It may be a sorrow, a hurt, a wound, a bitter experience, or a sin. Rather than giving in to the depths of sorrow and distress at the loss of a friend, one should offer thanks to God for the years they […]

Praying for the Impossible GOD LOVES TO HEAR His children pray for what seems impossible. His invitation is to ask Him to do what no one else can do. Yet, we rarely make that request. Someone once said, “We have lost the eternal youthfulness of Christianity and have aged into calculated adulthood.” The truth is […]

Where Character Is Developed With Intellect THE APOSTLE PAUL was not illiterate. He was a highly educated man, able to stand up in debate against the cultured men of Greece. But the Apostle Paul was conscious that he knew “only in part.” While our graduates have completed the course of study prescribed at Toccoa Falls, […]