Scotland of the 1840’s was as barren as the nursery rhyme cupboard of Old Mother Hubbard. The decade was known as the "Hungry Forties" as crops failed and migrant workers were driven to the overcrowded, desolate cities. In 1848, Mary Mitchell Slessor was born to an...
Julia Lake Lellersberger served with her husband in Africa among the lepers for more than 40 years. Well after the proverbial four-score years, she wrote the following: “At 81 years of age I am taking a post-graduate course in the University of Life. It is different...
A little child, accompanying his father to a cemetery, noticed that on most gravestones were two dates separated by a hyphen. “Daddy,” he asked, “what’s the dash between the two numbers?” The father explained, “The first number represents the date when this person...
“I’ll be home by 9 o’clock.” But nine comes and he doesn’t show. The same thing is true of ten, and eleven. You finally hear the door at 11:50. “I thought you said you’d be home by 9 o’clock.” “Yeah, but something happened.” Then what about the line, “The check’s in...
Your reputation is what others think of you, while character is what you really are. Your character is revealed, of course, by what you do, either negatively or positively, but Ralph Waldo Emerson used to believe that, more accurately, your character is defined by...
I am come that you might have life and have it abundantly. John 10:10 In Jack Kerouac's book, On The Road, one character turns to the other and says, "We gotta go and never stop going till we get there." "Where we going, Man?" asks the other. "I don't know but we...
It can fairly be said that in the history of Christendom, never has so much been owed to one man as is owed to a pugnacious, argumentative preacher by the name of Athanasius. You probably know several individuals who would fit that description. Frankly, if Athanasius...
Take a map and trace the three journeys of the Apostle Paul throughout the Middle East. You will quickly acknowledge, considering how difficult travel was in the first century, that covering the distances he did was no small feat. On his third journey, from somewhere...
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former lieutenant colonel of Russia’s Federal Security Service, suddenly fell ill and was hospitalized. Three weeks later, he was dead, a victim of a toxic substance identified as polonium-210, a radioisotope that caused a...
Do you ever feel like giving up? One of our listeners wrote saying that he had prayed about something and that God did not answer his prayer, so he was just giving up on the idea. Perhaps you, too, are wondering about the validity of God's promises. Everyone at some...