Nell Mohney illustrates the importance of attitude in Beliefs Can Influence Attitudes with a story that is fascinating. In the San Francisco Bay area some educators decided to conduct an experiment. T...
Three Tenses We could hardly believe the advertisement. It comes from Holt Renfrew and it focuses on a "Future Perfect Micro-Targeted Skin Gel" that promises to give your skin what it needs - luminosi...
A London editor submitted a list of people to Winston Churchill who had been Churchill's teachers. Churchill returned the list with this comment. "You have omitted to mention the greatest of my teache...
One More Time In a manufacturing town in Scotland, a young lady began teaching a Sunday school class of poverty-stricken boys. The most unpromising youngster was a boy named Bob. After the first two...
Being interviewed by the school administration, the eager teaching prospect said: "Let me see if I've got this right. You want me to go into that room with all those kids, fill their every waking mome...
A Canadian television station put together an eye catching promotion in an effort to attract more viewers. They showed several news clips with the wrong dialogue. Then a man said, "We don't make the n...
"When I was a boy, my father, a baker, introduced me to the wonders of song," tenor Luciano Pavarotti relates. "He urged me to work very hard to develop my voice. Arrigo Pola, a professional tenor in ...
As frightening and foreboding as death may seem, it can neither hurt nor destroy the child of God. In his book Facing Death, Billy Graham relates an experience of Donald Grey Barnhouse, one of America...
The largest group of native Americans east of the Mississippi is also the most mysterious. They are the Lumbee people of eastern North Carolina. Because they were able to quickly adapt to the white Eu...
Don't take a position of leadership in church unless you are prepared to be honest, pure, and loving in your lifestyle. Leadership is a privilege, and with privilege comes responsibility. God holds te...
Have you seen these answers to test questions from teachers in Christian schools? • Adam and eve were created from an apple tree. Noah's wife was Joan of ark. Noah built an ark and the animals c...
Teachers of small children here it all...and sometimes their encouragement backfires, unless they have a sense of humor and can laugh off what can pop into children's minds....
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 April 1988 the evening news reported on a photographer who was a skydiver. He had jumped from a plane along with numerous other skydivers and filmed the group as they fell and opened thei...
The Lord is my real instructor and I shall not want. He gives me peace, when chaos is all around me. He gently reminds me to pray before I speak and to do all things without murmuring and complaining....
We take English for granted; but if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it tha...
Dear Ann Landers: I am writing from behind bars. The charge? A felony - child molesting. Not a pleasant subject, I realize, but this letter is not being written to be pleasant or to gain sympathy. Yo...
In the Oct. 21 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Alan Murray talks about a recent report of the President's Council on Bioethics. The report makes it clear that technological innovations present signi...
Read reformer Martin Luther's compelling meditation on the question of who really killed Christ....