While most flowers bloom only in the day, some bloom only at night. The night blooming Cereus is the most well known example. The flower called Four O'clock opens in the late afternoon. Moon flowers u...
Do you have a problem with attendance? It is the matter of getting people to show up at the services. How is this for a positive? There are 22,000,000 persons who show up each day at McDonalds. They n...
A church in Georgia published a rather long prayer list. They thought it would be helpful to identify the reason for each one being on the list. In this way people could pray for specific needs and pr...
As everyone who has a bird feeder knows, a squirrel is very persistent in raiding the bird feeder. One scares them away only to have them return in minutes. Those who have studied squirrels say that t...
In happened in Reno. A police officer saw a car weaving on the highway, driving slowly and stopping for no apparent reason. When the officer pulled the vehicle over he saw that the driver was a seven-...
Many Florida road maps show the location of the ruins of Sam Jones Old Town in the Everglades. People often go to the place looking for ruins, but there are no ruins there. The reason is that such a t...
Old and new are always relative terms, especially when an American visits Europe. For example, in Delft in the Netherlands there is a New church built in 1420! The new church was built on the site of ...
In South Korea some people are getting operations on their tongue, but not for a true medical reason. They are getting the operations so that they can say their L and R sounds like an American. This a...
Newspapers recently carried the story of a man named Larry Klein. One might say that Larry is disabled, but one crook is not so sure. Larry used his crutches to fend off a crook who was trying to s...
When Ivo Andric was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1961, the committee cited his epic novel The Bridge on the Drina as reason enough for the award. The Bridge on the Drina is historical fic...
For many, many years the largest church building in the world was St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome. But a few years ago, the then-president of the Ivory Coast built a larger basilica. It seats 7,000 peop...
Mike Duffy, writing in the Detroit Free Press, makes this observation: "For many people, blue Monday is merely the follow-up to blah Sunday." Although it might be difficult to pin down one specific re...
In a world searching for the latest and best ways to have sex, virginity has become an embarrassment. This is to be expected in a society that preaches pleasure, but not in the church where virtue is ...
Most people would affirm the genius of Thomas Jefferson. He was an eloquent writer, an inquisitive thinker and a great inventor. Those who visit the Jefferson home, Monticello, are amazed at his many ...
Forty-four percent of Americans ages 20 to 69 believe marriage is not necessary in order to have a committed, fulfilling, life-long relationship, reports a Zogby/AOL poll. Marriage Savers’ president M...
Each person in that crowd surrounding Jesus' cross had his or her own reason for being there. She wanted to be there because she felt it was a significant event and she wanted to be able to share with...
Another reason for where our young people are today is the lack of intimacy. A little over a year ago I debated the co-founder of Playboy on television for three hours. He agreed with me on this point...
Fox News reported on July 31, 2002 that a new drink is gaining widespread popularity. Nexcite has sold over 24 million bottles in the last year. The reason? This beverage serves as a contemporary "lov...