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In the night skies there had long been observed bright masses of light. The astronomers supposed them to be stores of unfashioned chaotic matter—until William Herschel’s telescope resolved them into distinct stars. What the telescope did for stars, the religion of Christ, when received into the heart,…

Galatians 6:1 does not mean that we are to spy out our brother’s faults. There is a story of John Wesley going several times to a certain town where he thought that there was a band of earnest Christian people. But he was met by a brother who told him how dead they all were, what little life there was…

I have heard of a man who had a dream in which he thought he stood at the gates of heaven, and his wife with him. She went in, but the porter shut him out, saying, “The other day you said to your wife, ‘You may go to church and pray for us both.’ Now she shall go to heaven for you both, and you must…

John MacArthur Study Bible

If I am a child of God, I learn to trust my Father. I do not know a more delightful act of childhood than trustfulness in a parent. And how often if we trust God we shall be rewarded! Yesterday, I received a note from one of the trustees of the orphanage to say that the running account was so low that,…

You know how a judge will stop a witness when he begins to say what others have told him: “No, no,” he says, “what did you see yourself? What do you know about this business on your own account? I do not want to know what others said to you about it.” So is it with the message delivered from the pulpit.…

When Queen Eleanor sucked the poison from her husband’s wounds, at the risk of her own life, I can see reasons why she should do it. I say not that she was bound to do it, but I do say that the relationship of a wife accounts for what she did. But Jesus Christ, the Son of God, had no relationship to…

Some people are always fretting and fuming; they appear to have been born in stormy weather, and to be perpetually agitated in mind so that they cannot rest. Only the other day, a gardener I knew of was complaining greatly of the heavy rain, which had done some damage to the garden where he was working.…

Holiness is not the cause of spiritual life and safety; faith is the wellspring of all. In the spring you see the hawthorn covered with a delicious luxuriance of snow-white flowers, loading the air with fragrance, but no one among the admiring gazers supposes that those sweet blossoms caused the hawthorn…

One day, many years back, a thick darkness came over the United States. Now and then in London we have dreadfully dark days for which we can scarcely account, but this was quite a new experience for the New Englanders, and caused a terrible sensation. So exceedingly black was it that the barn door fowls…

Did you ever know a boy without an excuse? I never did. I think I never knew a girl either. We all make excuses readily enough. But those rough, surly pedagogues always answered the boy’s idle apologies by giving the offender an extra stroke of the whip for daring to impose upon his guardian. That is…

A young minister had been preaching in a country village, and the sermon apparently took deep effect on the minds of the hearers. In the congregation there was a young man who felt acutely the truth of the solemn words to which the preacher had given utterance. He sought the preacher after the service,…

In his book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It, Brian Dumaine writes, “In 2017, a six-year-old Dallas girl was talking to Alexa about cookies and dollhouses, and a few days later four pounds of cookies and a $160 dollhouse were delivered…

In their book, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer write, “Feedback helps us to avoid misunderstandings, creates a climate of co-accountability, and reduces the need for hierarchy and rules.” —No Rules Rules, 22 Proverbs 15:31–33 (CSB) One who listens to…

Tyler Pence won the 2021 Quad Cities Marathon with a time of just over 2 hours and 15 minutes. He is the first U.S. runner to win in the past 20 years. However, there is more to the story. The Quad-City Times reported, “Pence’s win came after Elijah Mwangangi Saolo, and Luke Kibet diverted from the course…

Mateusz Fijalkowski, 23 decided it was time to end it all. He attempted to drown himself in a Virginia swimming pool. Police officers rescued him but Fialkowski is suing the officers, not for saving him, but for not saving him soon enough. He is grateful to police officers who rescued him after he tried…

During a Junior Varsity baseball game, Jake Maser tried to stretach a hit to left center field into a triple. Coach John Suk, the third base coach, seeing the throw coming and the play at third was going to be close, gave Maser the sign to slide. Maser slid but his cleat became stuck, and he suffered…

In Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge the authors write about the importance of anticipating the ways external forces can shape a company’s future. They use a hypothetical planning session of fifteen executives of a major airline at the turn of the millennium doing long-range planning until the year…

In the early morning hours of Sunday, November 12, 2007, Marquise Goodwin, wide-receiver of the San Francisco 49ers expected to deliver his son. Instead, his son was delivered stillborn, and what was supposed to be a joyous occasion was marked with sadness. Of course, no one expected him to play in that…

A Pennsylvania college student got a reminder about taking out the trash when his mother sent him a care package at school. Connor Cox told a local TV station that his mother mailed two boxes to him. The first contained food and other goodies and the second was filled with garbage. When Cox called his…

If you’ve ever thrown a party you know that few guests stick around to clean up afterward. That’s what makes the Senegal and Japan fans at the 2018 World Cup so unusual. Both teams were underdogs, and both won their matches. As you can imagine, their fans were in no hurry to leave so they could celebrate.…

When Tim Cameron lost his wallet he was concerned because there wasn’t much inside in the way of identifying information to help someone find him. Cameron’s wallet was returned, because the person who found it got inventive and used the bank account information in the wallet to return it. The person…

The social media network, Facebook has announced that they have developed new tools to help charities raise money, help mark people safe during a crisis, and seek or send help during a crisis. The company made the announcement during a forum designed to show off the tools they are creating to enable…

The way a single mother from South Carolina used her tax refund inspired thousands of people across the country. Christian Knaack used social media to share the way she decided to use the money she received. Knaack said she received a $5,600 refund and decided to pay her rent for a year. She said that…

Technology provides ways to keep track of tasks, but some people still cling to old fashioned ways. One of those people is 24-year-old Claira Hart, who uses an online project management app to communicate with coworkers across the country, but prefers a pen and paper to keep track of her to-do list.…