Sometimes parents need more coaching than their child athletes....
The Romans built a wall across Europe, intending for it to go all the way to the Black Sea. ...
Did you hear the story of the boy who brought home a very low grade on a test? ...
According to a recent newspaper report, people can now show their devotion to their favorite baseball team even after death.People will be able to order a coffin, or urn, with team colors and insignia...
Since 2003, John Ortberg has served as senior pastor of the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, California....
In his Turning Point Daily Devotional for March 9, David Jeremiah says: “Clayton Christensen is a professor at Harvard Business School and is well-known for articulating his theory of disruptive techn...
The story is told of a man in China who raised horses for a living. When one of his prized stallions ran away, his friends gathered at his home to mourn his great loss. After they had expressed their ...
Ten Commandments Parents do many things because they want the best for their children in the long run. Some actions may feel restrictive or even harsh at the moment, but parents believe that fruit ...
It's like the speech that air travelers hear before take-off: "Put on your own oxygen mask first, and then help others around you."...
It is not necessary, on a Sunday morning, to become a comedian for Christ. Yet neither is there a scriptural reference that claims blessed are the bored....
John Barry
Pointers from John Piper on approaching the Bible...
Whenever we face a communication challenge, telling a story is a good option, and sometimes it is the very best option....
At the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Colby of Wales left to go bear hunting in Siberia. He would be gone 18 months. His wife asked if she could make a few alterations to the house while he was g...
According to a column in “Ripley’s Believe It or Not,” the Tujia people in China have a unique ceremony in which the prospective bride and her wedding party cry every day for a month before the weddin...
The late advice columnist Ann Landers use to receive something like 10,000 letters a month. When asked what seems to be the most common topic, she answered that most people seem to be afraid o...
Methuselah ate what he found on his plateAnd never, as people do nowDid he note the amount of the calorie countHe ate it because it was chow.He wasn't disturbed as at dinner he satDevouring a roast o...
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...
One day the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo happened to overhear a group of people admiring his Pietà, a statue of Christ on His mother's knees after His death on the cross. One man attr...
Walt Disney was once asked how it felt to be a celebrity. "It feels fine when it helps to get a good seat for a football game," he answered. "But it never helped me to make a good film or a good shot ...
Heads or Tails You heard about the golfer named Jones who was twenty minutes late at the first tee on Sunday morning and the other three members of the regular foursome were almost ready to drive off ...