Are there some particular insights you’ve gained during the years that help you preach for life change?...
The church loses its effectiveness without the ability to send forth the work it is intended to be doing....
Ken Walker wrote in the Christian Reader about 6-foot-2-inch, 280-pound Clay Shiver, a center for the 1995 Florida State Seminole football team. Regarded as a likely All-American, when Shiver got word...
The name of Curtis G. Lloyd is famous in botanical and pharmaceutical circles. The Lloyd Library in Cincinnati, Ohio, is named for him and his brother. He is buried in his hometown of Crittenden, Kent...
In 1936 an advertising executive in Philadelphia, Philip Klein, founded the Friday the 13th Club. Its members are committed to defying old superstitions. They walk under ladders. They break mirrors. T...
Communicating with clarity is a challenging endeavor. Consider these supposedly true citations and responses between airline pilots and mechanics: P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement...
In one of their books, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen retell an ancient story. There was a thief in ancient times who stole a magnificent coat. It was made of the finest of materials and had but...
I heard a great story about this fancy club that wouldn't allow golfers in, even if their families came over on the Mayflower. The families had to be descended from the guy who owned the ship. Then so...
Economist Richard Layard believes that although people are getting wealthier and living more comfortably, they’re not getting happier. He argues in Happiness: Lessons from a New Science that a “zero-s...
Divine Call to Repentance The term "posthaste" goes back to the time of Henry VIII. Postmasters were given relays of horses to carry messages for the king to important cities in England. Because some...
In one of their books, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen retell an ancient story. There was a thief in ancient times who stole a magnificent coat. It was made of the finest of materials and had but...
A man hated his wife's cat and he decided to get rid of it. He drove 20 blocks away from home and dropped the cat there. The cat was already walking up the driveway when he approached his home. The ne...
What can you fit into an hour? Depends on how much money you have. Apparently we really can do more with less....
Are we true to our mates? Or do we just SAY we are? About a third (39% of men, 27% of women) of USA TODAY readers responding to a living in the USA survey say they've had an extramarital affair. "My g...
Recently Kentucky Ancestors carried a remarkable story written by Edwin Burrows Smith. It concerns a man and wife who, in the first half of the 19th century, bought the freedom of 107 slaves! Paul and...
We're living in a day that is increasingly depersonalized. Nothing makes this more clear than the impersonal computer glitches which are becoming more frequent. I read about a letter that went out fro...
Strawberries are my favorite fruit. I even love strawberry plants, for once they preached a powerful sermon to me which I've never forgotten. I was on my hands and knees in my garden pulling weeks, wh...
Protect Your Child 1. Keep your child in sight at all times; when your child is away from you, know whom he or she is with and where. 2. Teach your child not to wander off and to avoid lonely places....
Chuck Swindoll has written, "Remember during your growing-up years how your mother had a specially designed wall with some pencil marks on it where, as you grew from year to year, she marked where you...
You can imagine how foolish I felt clutching my little bag of dollar popcorn and my cup of soda. I did not know the riches that were actually mine. Many Christians do not know the riches that are avai...