The Associated Press told of a New Jersey fisherman who discovered a shopping bag filled with unopened prayer letters. The letters displayed variety. One man asked to win the lottery. A teen girl aske...
Abraham Lincoln once said, "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had......
Eighteen-year-old Hudson Taylor wandered into his father's library and read a gospel tract. He couldn't shake off its message. Finally, falling to his knees, he accepted Christ as his Savior. ...
Joe McKeever tells about his son Neil, who was on an outing with his three children. The day before, he had suggested they pray for good weather. On their way to the park, he asked 10-year-old Grant i...
In the Detroit Free Press, Nancy A. Youssef reports that in response to a wave of violent crime - 104 homicides compared to 68 at the same time last year - the Detroit Police department took an unusua...
The family was on vacation when they came upon a playground. The little girl wanted to get in but the gate was locked. Her father explained that she couldn't play there because of the locked gate. "Bu...
If you have ever read the “Dennis the Menace” comic strip, you know that Dennis often comes up with some interesting prayers. ...
One evening, a little girl was saying bedtime prayers with her mother. "Dear Harold, please bless Mother and Daddy and all my friends," she prayed....
A Christian farmer spent the day in the city. In a restaurant for his meal, he sat near a group of young men. After he bowed his head to give thanks for his food, one of the young men thought he would...
As a group of amateur climbers scaled part of the Matterhorn near Zermatt, Switzerland, a vicious gust of wind came along at a narrow ledge....
Joe McKeever tells about his son Neil, who was on an outing with his three children. The day before, he had suggested they pray for good weather....
According to an old story attributed to Aesop, a man married off his two daughters. One married a gardener, and the other married a brick maker......
A businessman needed millions of dollars to clinch an important deal, so he went to the church to pray for the money. By chance he knelt at the altar next to a man who was praying for $100 to pay an u...
In the Middleton’s comic strip by Dunagin and Summers, little Wendie is getting ready to pray. Her mother says, “Time for prayers Wendie.” Wendie declares, “I’m going to pray for my friends.” Her m...
County music star Josh Turner tells a story of how he came to meet Johnny Cash. He told USA Weekend that he had been reading about Cash’s illness and wanted to meet him and encourage him. He found out...
In his new book The Prayer God Longs For (InterVarsity), James Emery White says, “When we pray, we are to pray for God's kingdom, God's will, not only to come into our lives and take root, but through...
Among Tibetan Buddhists it has long been believed that marmots (similar to our groundhogs) are the incarnations of Lamas -- Buddhist priests. When they hibernate in the winter they are said to be medi...
Bishop Hall wrote: It is not the arithmetic of our prayers — how many they are. Nor the rhetoric of our prayers — how eloquent they are. Nor the geometry of our prayers — how long they are. Nor the...
The glory of a dedicated quiet zone could be the healing space you need....