God is sovereign over all the details of our lives, as well as larger matters. He rules over everything at all times....
A remorseful man, wanting to reassure his skeptical wife, said: "I'm going to make a 360-degree turn." ...
In the United States lightning strikes 21.7 million times each year! Across the world there are 8 million lightning strikes every day! They tell us a storm is coming. They warn us to take cover. They ...
In the village of Blockley in Gloucestershire, England there lived Joanna Southcott, who won national attention there due to her belief that she would bear the second Messiah, to be named Shiloh. Thro...
An Ant's Example A man once laid a piece of chocolate candy on a table. Then, picking up an ant, he put it near the delicious bon-bon. He was surprised to see it take a single bite and then hurry off ...
According to the People’s Almanac, there was a shower of several thousand rubles that fell in the Gorki region of Russia in 1940. No one has ever been able to completely explain the phenomena. One p...
In his book Quiet Strength, Tony Dungy, head coach of the Super Bowl Champion Indianapolis Colts, wrote of what was in his mind with 45 seconds to go before his team won the Super Bowl......
We have traditionally marked our calendars, BC and AD. This is a tribute to the effect Jesus has on history....
Happy people live longer. That is the conclusion of Marilyn Elias writing in USA Today. She quoted Beverly Bennett of Duke University Medical Center as saying, “People could potentially exten...
An associate of Wesley, Samuel Bradburn, was highly respected by his friends and used by God as an effective preacher. On one occasion he was in rather desperate financial need. When Wesley learned...
In Darwin, Australia, a 19-year old Australian man was loading wild geese into his boat when a 10-foot crocodile grabbed him and took him into the water. His 53-year-old aunt came to his rescue. She t...
Writing in the October/November 1998 issue of Carolina Mountain Living Timothy M. Smith remarked on the strange fact that towns put up signs "No Loitering!" He says "The problem is ... that we're alre...
Recently some of Anne Rice's fans were shocked that she had returned to the Catholic faith of her childhood....
There is one place where the Queen (or King) of England cannot go. She is not permitted to go there. It is the House of Commons. Because of an event long ago, the ruling monarch is forbidden to enter ...
A friend of Vance Havner coined a word by combining the words squelch and quench. He used to say, "Don't 'squench' the Spirit." Havner thought it was so descriptive that he often used it in his preach...
General Eisenhower once rebuked one of his Generals for referring to a soldier as "just a Private." He reminded him that the Army could function better without its Generals, than it could without its ...