Elijah McCoy was born in 1844 to former slaves who had escaped from Kentucky to Ontario via the Underground Railroad. His parents sent him to study in Scotland, where he earned a degree in engineer...
"God's great paradox is that nations are not changed from the top down but from the bottom up, not by government edicts or kingly proclamations, but by ordinary people's lives transformed, one by one....
An eleventh century German king, Henry III, grew tired of ruling. He applied to a monastery to spend the rest of his life in quiet contemplation. The prior asked if he, a king, could live out a vow of...
Walt Disney was once asked how it felt to be a celebrity. "It feels fine when it helps to get a good seat for a football game," he answered. "But it never helped me to make a good film or a good shot ...
It has been reported that the Emperor Caligula would write out his decrees in very small letters and post them so high that no one could read them. Still, he enjoyed punishing offenders for breaking t...
Paul's use of the language of submission and authority…may cause some readers to bristle. Our culture sees submission as a form of oppression. Submission, though, does not imply inferiority, ...
In England, when they caution you about a potentially dangerous step, the sign reads: Mind the Step. If it's a low overhead that demands caution, the sign reads: Mind Your Head. They use the word mind...
In his book The Pleasure of His Company, Roger Palms tells about two men who work for the same nonprofit organization. "One lives as the friend of God," he wrote, "the other does not," According to Pa...
In the first Men in Black movie, Will Smith (“J”) at first refuses to believe Tommy Lee Jones (“K”) that the earth is playing host to thousands of creatures from other planets. K dismisses J’s “knowle...
In her book Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down, Marva Dawn describes her experience at the 1987 Vancouver World's Fair, where the Christian pavilion's presentation utilized glitzy double-reversed photo...
Basketball players dress simply: shoes, shirts, shorts, and sweatbands. But life is not so simple for football players – and what about ice hockey players? Besides clothes, the athletes in these two s...
Ronald Meredith describes one quiet night in early spring: “Suddenly out of the night came the sound of wild geese flying. I ran to the house and breathlessly announced the excitement I felt. What is ...
Love is love's food. There is a power in Christ's love which conquers, captivates, and overpowers the man, so that he cannot but love Christ in return. ...
In his book The Cycle of Victorious Giving (Beacon Hill Press), Stan Toler tells about the time when he was a college student and attended the annual missions conference at his church. ...
In his new biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas observes of the German pastor-theologian: “In his book Ethics...Bonhoeffer wrote about the way people worship success. The topic fascinated hi...