Corrie Ten Boom used to tell the story about a proud woodpecker who was tapping away at a dead tree when the sky unexpectedly turned black and the thunder began to roll. Undaunted, he went right on...
Do you remember the story of the ugly duckling? He didn't walk like a duck, he didn't quack like a duck, and he didn't look like a duck, but he lived among the ducks in the barnyard. Then one fine ...
Earl Palmer in his book The Enormous Exception wrote the following about the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, which is built directly upon the fault zone of the San Andreas fault: It is built t...
Some years ago I was told of a young Jewish man from the United States who decided to go to Israel and live. After working there for two years he was required either to serve in the army for a...
During Super Bowl XXXVII, FedEx ran a commercial that spoofed the movie Castaway, in which Tom Hanks played a FedEx worker whose company plane went down, stranding him on a desert island for years. Lo...
Runner does not cry about lost gold, but celebrates the win of bronze....
Who would believe that a butterfly can fly for 2,000 miles to escape the winter? If it had not been documented that the Monarch butterfly does indeed do that people would have said that the very idea ...
David Jeremiah points out that, "The cocoon of the Emperor moth is flask-like in shape. To develop into a perfect insect, it must force its way through the neck of its cocoon by hours of intense strug...
What It Means to be a Christian Leader Cal Thomas found himself called a "Christian leader" by a leading Christian magazine and he wondered what that meant ("Dear God, Please Don't Let Me Be a Christi...
The ancient Greeks held four national festivals, or games - Olympian, Isthmian, Pythian, and Nemean. The most important were the Olympian games, followed by the Isthmian, held every two years on the I...
As the elderly man lay dying in his bed, death's agony was suddenly pushed aside as he smelled the aroma of his favorite homemade chocolate chip cookies wafting up the stairs....
Face the ElementsNature wonderfully testifies that adverse conditions are often valuable in the development of some types of trees and plants. While fire is one of the forest's great enemies, it act...
Handbook to Heaven When a Soviet official was asked why a study of the Bible was frowned upon in his country, and why those who dared to print and distribute it were severely punished he replied, "We...
A newspaper ran a contest asking kids for their profound thoughts (akin to the old “Deep Thoughts” segment on Saturday Night Live). Here are some submissions:...
The Harvest Never Fails A wealthy widower deeded all his property to an only son and his wife on the condition that he would be allowed to live in the country with them for the rest of his life. After...
Moses must have seemed like an unlikely candidate for an inferiority complex. Raised in privilege as an adopted son in Pharaoh's household, he "was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and w...
Claude Thomas, pastor of First Baptist Church of Euless, TX, observed in a recent column, "In 1997 an article appeared in the journal published by the American Heart Association. It pointed to the neg...
"All groups of human beings have a tendency to be exclusive; they want to know who is inside and who is out. So they adopt identity markers—visible practices of dress, vocabulary or behavior that serv...