Christ began His ministry turning water into wine and ended it turning wine into blood. The first was literal, the second was symbolic. We often use the word blood in a symbolic way. When we speak of ...
Blood is central to Scripture. A quick search of the New International Version of the Bible finds the word blood in more that 350 verses. Why is blood such an important part of the message of the Bibl...
A beautiful golden flower called the aconite blooms in early spring in England. Sometimes the meadows are carpeted with them. There is a legend that these flowers grew in England only where Roman sold...
Recently, The Cincinnati Enquirer told the story of a man who donated 80 gallons of blood. He is the record holder for the local blood bank. According to the report, if 60 people gave every drop of bl...
Radio personality Paul Harvey tells the story of how an Eskimo kills a wolf. The account is grisly, yet it offers fresh insight into the consuming, self-destructive nature of sin. "First the Eskimo co...
Invulnerable Covering The great English preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon told of a man who had been sentenced to death by a Spanish court. Because he was an American citizen but also of English birth,...
In his Turning Point Daily Devotional for July 16, 2004, David Jeremiah shares the Paul Harvey story about how Eskimos sometimes killed wolves: “A knife with a razor-sharp blade was soaked in blood, t...
Gordon Moyes, pastor of Wesley Mission in Sydney, Australia, said in a recent sermon: "Taking life, even to eat, is never a trivial thing. God tells Moses: "For the life of a creature is in the blood...
Consumer Reports put out a little book entitled "How to Clean Practically Anything." It tells you, what solvent to use for a particular stain. Glycerin will remove the stain from a ball point pen. Boi...
When William the Conqueror defeated the English King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, he felt some remorse for the many who died there. So he built an Abbey to atone for all the blood shed. He built ...
In Stockholm, Sweden, a lady was pinned beneath a streetcar. She was seriously injured and bleeding badly. A crowd collected. They tried to move the streetcar, but it was too heavy. There was noth...
When William the Conqueror came to invade England, he made a grand entrance; but as he got off the boat, he stumbled and fell, bloodying his nose on the cobblestones....
In his Turning Point Daily Devotional for Feb. 18, 2010, David Jeremiah shares this: "A Netherlands-based electronics firm is creating a bracelet that will change color and flicker from yellow to red ...
In 24 hours the average adult accomplishes much: Your heart beats 103,689 times Your blood travels 168,000,000 miles You breathe 23,040 times You inhale 438 cubic feet of air You eat 3 ¼...
"When Jesus came the first time, He came in a manger. When He comes again, He is coming in majesty. The first time, He shed His royal blood for our redemption. When He comes again, He is going to be d...
Adrian Rogers wrote: "When Jesus came the first time, He came in a manger. When He comes again, He is coming in majesty. The first time, He shed His royal blood for our redemption. When He comes again...
Journalist Robert MacNeil once wrote, “I associate different emotions with traveling toward the different points of the compass. Going east is going back to where we all came from, toward the dawn; to...
I love the story of the second grader named Mike. On the way to school Mike's arm bumped against a seat on the bus and it made a big scrape and bled until blood got all over his clothes. He ha...
I love the story of the second grader named Mike. On the way to school Mike's arm bumped against a seat on the bus and it made a big scrape and bled until blood got all over his clothes, He had forgot...
"I recall, as a little barefoot boy with a cowlick of snow-white hair on my forehead, standing erect in my classroom and repeating the "Pledge of Allegiance" one Thanksgiving season. Our nation was at...