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Parenting

Mark Tonra's "James" in the comic strip asked his mother, "How'd you learn to be a Mom?" She replied, "I didn't." Not satisfied, James said, "Seriously." His mother said, "Seriously, I'm just winging ...

Legacy

Did you read the story of James Henry Smith? According to news accounts, James Henry Smith loved many things, but what he loved most was the Pittsburg Steelers. When he died, his family made an unusua...

Sacrifice

"He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much." (James Allen)...

Life

William James once said, "The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it."  ...

Hypocrisy

Jesse James killed a fellow in a bank robbery and shortly thereafter was baptized in the Kearney Baptist Church. Then he killed another man, a bank cashier, and joined the church choir and taught hymn...

Personal Dedication

When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the captain of the ship sought to turn him back. "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go am...

Church

I remember the late President of Princeton Theological Seminary and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, Dr. James I. McCord, telling the story of two friends at a party. One confessed, "I don't k...

Pornography

Just before he was executed in Florida, serial killer Ted Bundy made a last-gasp grab for respectability as a crime expert. Asked by religious broadcaster James Dobson what made him turn violent, B...

Unpopular Promises

There are hundreds or even thousands of promises in the Bible, depending on who is counting....

Illustration: Thankfulness, Providence

In his Church & Culture blog, James Emery White shares this story: The barracks where Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsy were kept in the Nazi concentration camp Ravensbruck were terribly overcrowde...

Humility

Former heavyweight boxer James (Quick) Tillis is a cowboy from Oklahoma who fought out of Chicago in the early 1980s. He still remembers his first day in the Windy City after his arrival from Tulsa. "...

Heaven

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 ...

The Tongue

Recently newspapers, radio and TV carried the tragic, but comic, story of a man who was determined to finally get rid of a troublesome mouse. The man threw the stunned mouse on a pile of leaves he ...

Heaven

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...

Consistent Life

I recently heard of four scholars who were arguing over Bible translations. One said he preferred the King James Version because of its beautiful, eloquent old English. Another said he preferred the A...

Goals

In the book Significa, the authors tell of two men who decided to see the world backwards. It was 1930 when James B. Hargis and Charles Creighton drove their Ford roadster backwards from New York City...

Vision

According to Charles Panati, Silly Putty was an accident. James Wright, of General Electric, was striving to find a synthetic rubber that would be cheaper and more versatile than the real thing. What ...

Forgetfulness, Forgetting

The pastor James Moore of Houston tells about an elderly man who spoke at a banquet. With a broad grin and twinkle in his eye, he said, "I know I'm old because there are three things I can't remember...

Pornography

In his recent interview with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy, Dr. James Dobson asked Bundy: "Do you deserve the punishment the state will inflict on you? This was his response: "I'm not going...