It actually happened in a Sunday School class of boys long ago. The teacher asked each lad to quote a Bible verse as the offering was taken. One said, "The Lord loveth a cheerful giver." Another sa...
When D.L. Moody was conducting evangelistic meetings, he frequently faced hecklers who were in violent disagreement with him. In the final service of one campaign, an usher handed the famous preacher ...
A group of students at Harvard once tried to fool the famous professor of zoology Agassiz. They took parts from a number of different bugs and with great skill attached them together to make a creatio...
An old fable that has been passed down for generations tells about an elderly man who was traveling with a boy and a donkey. As they walked through a village the man was leading the donkey and the boy...
Consider some of these pearls of wisdom that have been passed on to us by way of the Internet. 1. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film. 2. He who laughs last, thinks slowest. 3...
According to the Associated Press, a real estate tycoon named Ronald Bergeron, who was known for his love of nature, tried to show off for visitors by riding on the back of an eight foot alligator. ...
After the Civil War, much of the South lay in ruins. People who owned mansions in once proud cities found themselves unable to bear the cost of restoring their homes. They said they were too poor to p...
Kefa Sempangi (whose story is told in the book A Distant Grief), was a national pastor in Africa and barely escaped with his family from brutal oppression and terror in his home country of Uganda. The...
There was a painter named Jack, who was very interested in making a dollar or two extra where he could. So he often would thin down his paint to make it go a wee bit further. As it happened, he got aw...
The War Cry carried a story about a tenant farmer who had worked hard for many years to improve the production of the land. Then something happened that caused him to become very bitter. When it was...
In the March 4, 2003edition of his weblog, Albert Mohler notes that, "According to some estimates, as much as one-third of the nation's money supply now moves through the gambling industry each year. ...
Trevin Wax
In all our talk about defending the gospel, it's possible that we might think of the good news as fragile and vulnerable. God forbid! ...
Whenever we face a communication challenge, telling a story is a good option, and sometimes it is the very best option....