Writing in The Sunday School Times many years ago, Newman Hall told about a Christian friend who was invited to debate publicly with some men who had no use for the Lord or the church. The believer...
A group of 4-year-olds was gathered in a Sunday School class in Chattanooga. The teacher looked at the class and asked this question: "Does anyone know what today is?" A little girl held up her hand...
In the 12/18/03 issue of Sightings, Andrew Weaver and Christopher G. Ellison report that, "In 1988, only two states had large-scale casino gambling; now 27 states have it. Thirty-seven states operate ...
A vital part of worship is giving. We are to respond to the needs of the church and God's people in a loving, sacrificial manner. Leslie B. Flynn illustrated this kind of personal giving in his book W...
Melvin Newland tells the story about comedian Jerry Clower, whose son was the field goal kicker for his high school football team. One day, his son had a chance to kick the goal that would give his te...
In 1904 William Borden, heir to the Borden Dairy Estate, graduated from a Chicago high school a millionaire. His parents gave him a trip around the world. Traveling though Asia, the Middle East, and E...
General George Washington had known nothing but defeat in the American Revolution until he won the famous victory at Trenton on Christmas Day, 1776. Every school boy or girl knows how he waited until ...
A first grade school teacher in Virginia presented each child in her classroom the first half of a well-known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb......
Ten Most Wanted Men 1. The man who puts God's business above any other business. 2. The man who brings his children to church rather than sending them. 3. The man who is willing to be the right examp...
Recently a 61-year-old Massachusetts grandmother took some wrong turns and got into a pile of trouble. It was her first day on her new job as a school bus driver. She got so lost that she wound up in ...
In his Turning Point Daily Devotional for March 9, David Jeremiah says: “Clayton Christensen is a professor at Harvard Business School and is well-known for articulating his theory of disruptive techn...
Stars Say, Yes! In Michigan, in four cities that studied junior high and high school girls, it was found that the girls watch an average of two and a half to three hours of soap operas per day, and th...
Wally Rendel, Pastor of Southern Acres Christian Church in Lexington, KY, sent this moving story in response to our request for Easter illustrations and sermon ideas: Our daughter, Jill Marie Rendel, ...
Wilma Rudolph suffered from polio as a child. Polio left her with a crooked left leg. She wore metal braces and had to have treatments for over six years. At age 11, through sheer diligence an...
Richard Fairchild tells this story of Leslie Weatherhead, a well-known preacher of a previous generation: “Once, when he was a high school student, he had a very difficult examination, but he had disc...
In the late 1800's, St. Paul's School in London was considered quite prestigious. Even so, a mother, thinking of entering her son, wrote to Frederick Walker, the high Master, wondering about the socia...
Protect Your Child 1. Keep your child in sight at all times; when your child is away from you, know whom he or she is with and where. 2. Teach your child not to wander off and to avoid lonely places....
Not everyone quite gets the idea of metaphor and analogy. Here are some examples taken from high school essays (and provided by www.mikeysfunnies.com): ~ Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle tha...
David Jeremiah points out that in November 2002, "Detroit Schools Chief Executive Kenneth Burnley showed up at Southeastern High School with an announcement. Showing the students $100, he read a lette...