The cartoon This Funny World once showed a couple leaving church. The wife said to her husband, "I'll tell you why it's always the same old sermon. The only time you come is on Easter Sunday, that's w...
In a recent Turning Point devotional, David Jeremiah writes: “A 1970 film, by the same name as the novel on which it was based, Love Story, became famous for its tag line: 'Love means never having to ...
People often gravitate to where they are accepted. When we were lost, "having no hope and without God in the world" (Eph. 2:12), it was God who "accepted [us] in the Beloved" (Eph. 1:6). Once accepted...
In Anaheim, California is a piece of property that is nothing short of remarkable. Fifty years ago not a person alive would have ever dreamed that millions of folks from around the world would come an...
The cartoon This Funny World once showed a couple leaving church. The wife said to her husband, "I'll tell you why it's always the same old sermon. The only time you come is on Easter Sunday, that's w...
The largest cross in the world is located on Bald Knob mountain in southern Illinois. It towers 111 feet high and can be seen for miles in every direction....
Whales really do communicate with each other. One whale sounded the following caution to his dear mate: "Better watch it; when you get to the top and start to blow, that's when you get harpooned!" Wha...
A businessman was queried about his feelings toward a competitor up the street. "There's nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Bill Johnson," he said, "and there's nothing he wouldn't do for me. T...
Ambrose Bierce once wrote, “An abstainer is a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.” Surely this is the logic of a world that imagines God as a cosmic kil...
Craig Brian Larson reminds us of the time that, “Not long ago, the world watched as three gray whales, icebound off Point Barrow, Alaska, floated battered and bloody, gasping for breath at a hole in t...
What is the most expensive substance in the world? Neither is it gold, though it is now well past $1,300 an ounce; nor is it platinum. The most expensive thing per ounce is the ink for your computer p...
Love is a basic human need, about which poets have waxed eloquent as long as there've been...poets....
The second-largest building in the world is the palace that President Ceacescieu of Romania built for himself. It is devoted to greed and vanity....
Helen Keller once said, "With the death of every friend I love…a part of me has been buried…but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain m...
Haddon Robinson tells about the young musician's concert which was poorly received by the critics. The famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius consoled him by patting him on the shoulder and saying, "R...
A church in Boca Raton Florida has cut a deal to put a 99-foot phone tower inside the cross of their building....
Rick Warren observed, "American Christianity is going through a second reformation. The first Reformation clarified what we believe. This reformation is all about how we act and operate in the world....