At one's passing from this life to the next, what will others know and believe about you and the life you lived on earth? Will it be a testimony for good or for loss?...
Little Johnny was in the garden filling in a large hole when his neighbor peered over the fence. Interested in what the youngster was up to, he politely asked, "What'cha doing, Johnny?" "My goldfish d...
The Prayer Telescope The brilliant scientist Sir Isaac Newton said that he could take his telescope and look millions and millions of miles into space. Then he added, "But when I lay it aside, go into...
Perhaps one of the hardest aspects of the Christian faith to understand is the Incarnation. How can Jesus be fully divine and fully human? There is nothing else like this in all the universe-infini...
Joe Piscatella is the author of several widely-read books on health including Don't Eat Your Heart Out and Controlling Your Fat Tooth. He often gives lectures around the country encouraging people to ...
The folly of human nature is neatly summed up by the case of the middle-aged school teacher who invested her life savings in a business enterprise which had been elaborately explained to her by a swin...
In June, 1998, World Press Review carried an article noting the progress in lengthening human life. Scientists had taken human cells, put them in test tubes, genetically manipulated the DNA, and made ...
One of the Seven Wonders of the World was the Pharos Lighthouse at Alexandria. The world's first skyscraper, it was said that the light could be seen 30 miles out to sea. It shone for 1700 years -- bu...
James Oglethorpe founded the city of Savannah, Georgia. He had already decided how to lay out the city before he even knew exactly where he would build it. He took a Roman encampment as his plan -- a ...
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...
When the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius destroyed the city [of Pompeii in A.D. 79], many people were buried in the ruins. Some took cover underground, and the place became their burial chamber. Thos...
James Oglethorpe founded the city of Savannah, Georgia. He had already decided how to lay out the city before he even knew exactly where he would build it. He took a Roman encampment as his pl...
A conversation between a Christian missionary and a Muslim illustrates a great point. The Mohammedan wanted to impress the missionary with what he considered to be the superiority of Islam. So he s...
In March, 1977, the Associated Press reported that four deadly tropical diseases could be totally eliminated by the year 2007 for only one dollar per patient per year. The diseases include Chagas dise...
Years ago, Andre Kole, the talented illusionist who traveled all over the world as a representative of a Christian youth organization, wrote about the death of his wife Aljeana. She had an incurable b...
According to Paul Boller, people were fond of telling this anecdote about Woodrow Wilson. At the end of World War I, Wilson presented his "Fourteen Points" to make sure nothing like the Great War woul...
An old sea captain was quizzing a young naval student. "What steps would you take if a sudden storm came up on the starboard?" ...