In South Korea some people are getting operations on their tongue, but not for a true medical reason. They are getting the operations so that they can say their L and R sounds like an American. This a...
In his newest book, The Eighth Habit, Stephen Covey reports that what the inventor and innovator, Buckminster Fuller wanted on his epitaph. Fuller said that his tombstone should read, “Just a trim ta...
Newspapers ran a story about a 55-year old North Florida man who went to a judge with an unusual request. He asked the judge to allow him to change his name to "God."...
The United States Coast Guard has an official motto and an unofficial motto. The official motto is "semper paratus," which means "always ready." The Coast Guard is always ready to serve whether to ...
The Hollywood branch of the American Cancer Society decided to hold a benefit night in conjunction with a professional tennis tournament. It turned out to be embarrassing for them, however, when th...
Eighteen-year-old Hudson Taylor wandered into his father's library and read a gospel tract. He couldn't shake off its message. Finally, falling to his knees, he accepted Christ as his Savior. ...
Corrie Ten Boom in The Hiding Place relates an incident which taught her this principle. She and her sister, Betsy, had just been transferred to the worst German prison camp they had seen yet, Ravensb...
Be sure to speak the truth you would like to have played out in your life. Remember it was words that brough all of creation into being....
Where your heart is, there your treasure is also. It's impossible to out-give God....
There is a legend among the gypsies of Eastern Europe that Roman soldiers were sent out to find a blacksmith to forge four nails to crucify Jesus. ...
In the early 1970's Gough Whitland was the prime minister of Australia. He did not believe in God. He said, "If there is a God and if I ever meet him you can be assured of one thing. I will treat him ...
Harold and Don Reid, two of the legendary Statler Brothers, tell a wonderful story in their book Random Memories. ...
The great naturalist John Muir wrote; "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you,...
In his book The Uttermost Star, F.W. Boreham told about attending a farewell service for a minister who was leaving a church he had pastored for 20 years. Several preachers attended, and each eloquent...
SingingWe Sing, and Sing, and Sing!!! Only that you might see and relate to yourself as the message implies….The singing of a hymn should be a great experience for us - it can be a testimony, p...
Keeping Promises Ted Engstrom gives a succinct definition of integrity: Simply put, Integrity is doing what you said you would do. It means you keep your promises. When you promised to be faithful ...
Corrie Ten Boom used to tell the story about a proud woodpecker who was tapping away at a dead tree when the sky unexpectedly turned black and the thunder began to roll. Undaunted, he went right on...
Among Rembrandt's many self-portraits is the remarkable one in the painting Elevation of the Cross. The artist has included himself among the soldiers, struggling to raise the cross, weighted with the...
Earthly fathers make plenty of mistakes rearing their children, but our heavenly Father never makes a mistake with us....