A story is told of Abraham Lincoln. One day the President summoned to the White House a surgeon in the Army of the Cumberland from the state of Ohio. The major assumed that he was to be commended for ...
What can encouragement and affirmation do? If you want to see someone's work or attitude improve, read more here....
Morris, the loudmouth mechanic, was removing the cylinder heads from the motor of a car when he spotted a famous heart surgeon who was standing off to the side, waiting for the service manager to come...
Recently a popular magazine noted that it is now possible to own a hand held satellite receiver. Already installed on some new autos, the devices work with the global positioning satellite to tell you...
Truth in any Tongue The Scriptures have been translated into more than a thousand languages by many worthy organizations. In fact, the Old Testament books are presently being made available in another...
The "Coronary and Ulcer Club" lists the following rules for members... 1. Your job comes first. Forget everything else.2. Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays are fine times to be working at the office. T...
How to Join the Coronary Club Membership Requirements: 1. Never say NO to a request - always say YES. 2. Your job comes first; personal considerations are secondary. 3. Accept all invitations to mee...
Howard Hendricks shares this insight about the value of learning: When I was a college student - I worked in the college dining hall, and on my way to work at 5:30 every morning I walked past ...
Harold Sherman quite awhile ago, wrote a book entitled How to Turn Failure Into Success. In it he gives a "Code of Persistence." If you give up too easily, write this down and read it daily. 1. I will...
What can you fit into an hour? Depends on how much money you have. Apparently we really can do more with less....
Don Aycock tells the story of Menelik II, who was the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1889 until 1913: “News of a successful new means of dispatching criminals reached him. The news was about a device known ...
Far too often, Christians are like the man who met an old friend and asked, “How’s everything with you?” The other man said, “Terrible. You know my wife just died.” The first man said, “Well, it could...
William Carey had to overcome great odds to obey the call of God. In The Challenge of Life, Oswald J. Smith noted that "even the Directors of the East India Company opposed [Carey's] work. Following i...
In the May 1982 issue of Guideposts, Norman Vincent Peale told of a distinguished British violinist named Peter Cropper. Cropper's work was so outstanding that the Royal Academy of Music in London had...
Created from Georgia marble and Florida coquina stone, and ornamented with the forms of plants and animals, the Bok Tower in Lake Wales, Florida was built to house a 57-bell carillon. Visitors sit ami...
Sigmund Freud's favorite story was about the sailor shipwrecked on one of the South Sea islands. He was seized by the natives, hoisted to their shoulders, carried to the village, and set on a rude thr...
During the 1840's in the Fiji Islands of the Pacific, a man was worth $7. You could buy a man for a musket. After you bought him, you could starve him, work him to death, whip him or eat him. (Canniba...
Faith Conquers All J.H. Crowell went to work on a sailing vessel at the age of 16. He was the only Christian among a crew of 12. Before leaving home he had promised his mother he would continue his de...
"In one of his lighter moments, Benjamin Franklin penned his own epitaph. It seems that he must have been influenced by Paul's teaching of the resurrection of the body. Here is how it read: 'The Body ...
In the 1840's, a young man who was an earnest Christian found employment in a pawn shop. Although he disliked the work, he did it faithfully "as unto the Lord". To prepare himself for a life o...