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...
At a zoo in Taipei in Taiwan, a 46-year old man jumped into a den of lions and cried out, "Jesus will save you." According to press reports, he also taunted the lions, "Come bite me." One lion decided...
John and Dave were hiking when they spotted a mountain lion staring at them. John froze in his tracks, but Dave sat down on a log, tore off his hiking boots, pulled a pair of running shoes from his ba...
During one of his trips through the African bush, British missionary and explorer David Livingstone was started by a noise. Turning around to find out what had caused it, he saw a lion in the act o...
In C. S. Lewis' book, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, he takes us to the land of Narnia. When Narnia is living under the authority of the witch, it is "always winter, but never Christmas." Can y...
There is an ancient fable about a monster known as Proteus who had the power of assuming many shapes and appearances. He could become a tree or a pebble, a lion or a dove, a serpent or a lamb. He seem...
Golfer Arnold Palmer once played a series of exhibition matches in Saudi Arabia. The king was so impressed that he proposed to give Palmer a gift. Palmer demurred; "It really isn't necessary, Your Hig...
In a recent sermon called “Would a Loving God Send People to Hell?” John Ortberg began with this illustration: ...
Somewhere in the process of sermonizing the preacher must turn up the heat on the passage and himself and discover the timeless, universal truth that remains...