A Lutheran pastor in Stockholm, Sweden is so concerned to produce church growth he’s placed a help-wanted ad in newspapers advertising for church attenders. The minister, Bjoern Frennesson, c...
The ancient Greek mathematician once used his ingenuity to help defend his home against foreign invaders. When Roman forces prepared to attack Syracuse about 214 BC, Archimedes installed mirrors on sh...
A lady was visiting an art museum when she turned to a curator and pointed at the wall. "I suppose you call this hideous looking thing modern art." "No," he replied. "We call it a mirror." What do we ...
Let Go As children bring their broken toys With tears for us to mend, I brought my broken dreams to God, Because He was my friend. But then, instead of leaving Him In peace, to work alone, I hung arou...
A husband took his young daughter to the grocery store to help him buy groceries. In addition to the healthy items on his wife's carefully prepared list, the two of them returned home with a package o...
Are you going through a hard time? Maybe these words from a song sung by Kristine Wyrtzen will help you like they helped me. The song is called "The Fire." I've been through a fire that had deepen...
During the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 an American reporter was flying over the Sinai desert with an Israeli officer, and they spotted some fifty thousand stranded Egyptian soldiers who obviously were...
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote this prayer for Christmas: “Loving Father, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of angels, the gladness of the shepherds and the worship of t...
An out-of-towner drove his car into a ditch in a desolated area. Luckily, a local farmer came to help with his big strong horse, named Buddy. He hitched Buddy up to the car and yelled, "Pull, Nellie,...
NewPrayer.com "knows" where "The Big Bang" occurred and can allegedly direct you-- and your prayers-- to God's residence. It explains, "NewPrayer has designed and built a directional radio transmitter...
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, made the newspapers recently and it wasn't even Groundhog Day. Did you read about Donald Wyman? He was by himself in the woods when he was pinned down by a falling tree. Th...
Dwight L. Moody told this story: "A minister was one day moving his library upstairs. As he was going up with a load of books, his little boy came in, and was very anxious to help his father....
Chicagoan Silas Purnell is credited with helping more than 50,000 inner-city teens get into college. In the mid-1960's he quit a marketing job and opened a college placement office in the basement of ...
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, made the newspapers recently and it wasn't even Groundhog Day. Did you read about Donald Wyman? He was by himself in the woods when he was pinned down by a falling ...
The promise of the resurrection was especially comforting to a woman named Freida Barkman after her 15-year-old foster son, Vernon, was killed in an accident. Afraid that he would soon be forgotten by...
Which day was the Last Supper? Well, it depends on the calendar you're using....
There is an old tale about a man named Androcles. He was a runaway slave in Rome. He stopped and risked his life to help a wounded lion attending to his wounded paw. There was nothing in it for him, a...
That is the title of a novel set in India by Araundhati Roy. Even if one has not read the book, the title is intriguing. It sounds like the title for a sermon. We often speak of the great things God h...
Reporters have come up with a new term to describe the lack of reaction to disasters. They call it compassion fatigue. We are constantly inundated with stories of human distress: famine, genocide, and...