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What Exactly Is Marriage? "Marriage is when you get to keep your girl and don't have to give her back to her parents" -Eric, six years old "When somebody's been dating for a while, the boy might propose to the girl. He says to her, 'I'll take you for a whole life, or at least until we have kids and get…

How’d You Live Your Dash? > > I read of a man who stood to speak > At the funeral of a friend > He referred to the dates on her tombstone > From the beginning...to the end. > > He noted that first came her date of birth > And spoke the following date with tears, > But he said what mattered most of all…

The greatest evangelist of the Twentieth Century, without question, was Billy Graham. The greatest evangelist before him of the Nineteenth Century undoubtedly was Dwight L. Moody. Both shared a common trait. They were criticized because of a particular subject they preached about. When Billy Graham was…

From: Jim Meigs from FBC, Center Point, Alabama

Here's a message that will bring you chills. Have you ever felt the urge to pray for someone and then just put it on a list and said, "I'll pray for them later?" Or has anyone ever called you and said, "I need you to pray for me, I have this need?" A missionary on furlough told this true story while…

5/2/2004 A 70-year-old grandfather was asked by his young grandson how things have changed since he was a kid. His reply is worth reading. "Well, let me think a minute. I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees and the pill. There weren't things…

When we intend to do Christian service tomorrow, and do it faithfully and well, yet we sin. There is a contract for certain steamers to carry Her Majesty’s mails, and they are bound to leave Liverpool at such a time and arrive at New York so long afterwards. Suppose they leave six hours after the time.…

There is a measure of reason in appointing the age of twenty-one as the period of a man’s majority, for he is then mature and full grown. It would be unwise to make a person to be of age while only ten, eleven, or twelve; everybody would see that such boyish years would be unsuitable. On the other hand,…

THE STORY I was born in 1725, and I died 1807. The only godly influence in my life, as far back as I can remember, was my mother, whom I had for only seven years. When she left my life through death, I was virtually an orphan. My father remarried, sent me to a strict military school, where the severity…

A Chinese man took a woman on a first dinner date. The woman brought 23 of her relatives along. The man looked on uncomfortably as the woman’s large family began ordering pricey dishes and drinks. She said she was testing if he would be “generous enough to pay for all 25 people.” When the man received…

Napoleon is a struggling teenager in the now classic namesake film, “Napoleon Dynamite.” In an interaction which has since become the source of many internet memes, when he finds out his new friend Pedro is asking a girl out on a date, Napoleon laments his own lack of the “skills” that a girlfriend might…

A couple hiking in northeastern France found an unusual artifact, carrier pigeon message dating from 110 years earlier. Jade Halaoui said he and a friend were hiking in the Ingersheim when they spotted a tiny aluminum cylinder on the ground. They dug it up and found a small piece of paper inside with…

A team of British treasure hunters found a fortune worth of coins dating from the 15th to 17th centuries using metal detectors to search a field in England. The team found a couple of coins and then asked the owner of the field for permission to search the 15-acre field. Over the next three days they…

As part of a multi-million-dollar roof restoration project at an English Manor house, workers lifted had to remove the floorboard of the attic for the first time in centuries. Archaeologists expected to find a few coins, bits of paper, and other debris that had fallen through the cracks. Instead, they…

A Toronto man said he was surprised and confused when a package arrived at his home containing something that he had ordered eight years earlier. When the package was dropped off on his doorstep Elliot Berinstein said he was confused because he had not ordered anything from the company in a long time.…

An Iowa man received an unexpected post card from his sister and was surprised to discover the note had originally been mailed in 1987. Paul Willis said the postcard appeared in his mailbox. It came from his sister and had a picture of her hiking in the Grand Canyon in 1987. He noticed the card a postmark…

An unnamed man received a text from a woman he had been attracted to 8 months earlier. The text said, “Yes, I’d love to go out on Valentine’s Day.” The problem is that he had asked her out by text message back in February and never heard back from her. He wasn’t the only one who was surprised with a…

Friends and family welcomed Dave “Dinger” Bell back to dry ground when the former Royal Marine arrived in England after rowing across the Atlantic Ocean. Bell’s team believes he is one of the first people to row from New York to England unsupported. Bell reported that on the trip he was stung by a jellyfish,…

Samsung has released a new dating app that helps people find matches by looking at the insides of the person’s refrigerator. The Refrigerdating app designed for use with the company’s Family Hub Refrigerator allows singles to learn about potential mates based on what they keep inside the appliance. The…

Archaeologists uncovered a rare stone sign establishing the city limit of ancient Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius around 49A.D. The sign was uncovered when workers excavated a new sewer system and is a huge slab of travertine used to mark off a sacred, military, and political perimeter highlighting…

Workers renovating a café In England made a discovery that may change the way the café does business. While pulling apart a section of ceiling, workers found a menu from the restaurant that occupied the building in 1913. The menu from the Yamen Café and Tea Rooms was dated January 1913. Workers also…

Officials at a British cathedral said a book that recently arrived in the mail may have been checked out from the facility’s library more than 300 years ago. Reverend Canon Keith Farrow, vice dean and canon missioner at Sheffield Cathedral said the book arrived in the mail along with a note explaining…

An employee of a North Carolina thrift store found a 146-year-old marriage certificate hidden in the frame of an 1899 print of a painting depicting a small girl and a dog. When she found the certificate Pam Phelps knew she needed to try to locate relatives of the couple. The certificate, dated 1865,…

ENCOURAGEMENT Delta Airlines posted a photo of a note left in one of its aircraft by the pilot who dropped it off for storage a year earlier. The airline said, when First officer Chris Dennis took the plane to Victorville, California for storage, he had heard rumors of a two-week shutdown. He left a…

Currently scientific understanding suggests four basic forces govern daily activities, gravity electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force. Finds from research at a laboratory near Chicago has uncovered the possibility of a new sub-atomic particle or new force, known as a muon. Researchers…