In her book Tramp for the Lord, Holocaust survivor, Corrie ten Boon, tells of revisiting Germany in 1947 to share the gospel of God’s forgiveness through faith in Christ. She recounts: “I had come from Holland to defeated Germany with the message that God forgives. It was the truth they...Read more
Andrew Carnegie, the great industrialist and philanthropist, once stated in a speech before a graduating class that he thought that all young men fell into three categories: those who did not do all their duty, those who only professed to do their duty, and those who did all their duty,...Read more
In his famous lectures to the ministerial students of Spurgeon’s College, the great English Baptist, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, was fond of saying, “that a minister ought to have one blind eye, and one deaf ear.” According to Spurgeon, survival in the ministry required a pastor to look past the faults...Read more
The famed astronomer Percival Lowell spent many years studying and surveying the surface of Mars. Through this scientific pursuit he believed he saw canals of water on Mars and set about mapping them carefully. By the time Lowell published his findings, he was so eminent in his field that no...Read more
In Ecclesiastes 9:18 we read that, “one sinner destroys much good.” In the wisdom and warning of this verse, Solomon reminds us about the domino effect of sin. There is a contagious power to sin that we often overlook. One sinner and one sin can inflict widespread collateral damage. As...Read more
Three sisters, ages ninety-two, ninety-four, and ninety-six, lived together. One night the ninety-six-year-old filled the bath. She put one foot in and then paused. “Was I getting in the tub or out of the tub?” she shouted to her sisters. The ninety-four-year-old yelled back, “I don’t know; I will come...Read more
On October 31, 1983, Korean Airlines flight 007 departed from Anchorage, Alaska, for a direct flight to Seoul, Korea. Unknown to the flight crew, the computer engaging the flight navigation system contained a one-and-a-half-degree routing error. At the point of departure, the mistake was unnoticeable. One hundred miles out, the...Read more
John Chancellor, at the age of 67, was just easing his way into retirement after 43 years in the broadcasting business as a journalist. He was seen often on the NBC Nightly News. At this point in his life, there was not a cloud in the sky. All was well,...Read more
John Wesley was a tireless servant of God, and a man who had little use for leisure time. Across his lifetime, this eighteenth century English evangelist planted churches, established orphanages, opposed slavery, wrote books, trained and ordained preachers. He was constantly on the move, stopping only to preach two or...Read more
The story is told of a time when a great Scottish preacher prayed in the morning service for rain. As he went to church in the afternoon his little daughter said, “Here is the umbrella, Papa.” The seasoned church leader looked quizzically and asked, “What do we need it for?”...Read more