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If you send a kite or a buzzard flying over a tract of country, what will it see? Why, it will be looking out for all the dead carcasses, and it will be sure to be able to tell you how much carrion there is about. But if you send a dove over that same space, it won’t have an eye for it, for it has no…

When a dove flies over a landscape it sees the clear streams and the fields of corn, but when a vulture passes over the same landscape what does it see? A dead horse here and there, a carcass, or a piece of carrion. Everybody sees according to his eyes. A graceless, impure-minded man cannot see purity.…

Sometimes, in the old days of war, there used to be a number of little ships wanting to cross the sea. But the privateers were on the watch, so the seamen were afraid to hoist the sail, and get away from the shelter of the shore, for they would soon be caught by their enemies, like doves by the hawk.…

In Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen, Donald Miller writes, “In 2013, the soap company Dove released a series of short films featuring women who were the subjects of an FBI-trained forensic artist. Without actually seeing the women, the artist would draw each woman…

NBA superstar Wilt Chamberlin boasted in his autobiography about the number of women he slept with during his playing career. He promised that there were not any “little Willies” around though. Evidently he may have been mistaken. Aaron Levi, adopted as a baby began to search for his birthparents. When…

Sometimes we just lose focus. It is easy to be distracted from the main thing. Bonnie Miller, a 45-year-old resident of Benton Harbor, Michigan lost her focus. She was walking and became distracted by her smart phone. She was texting while walking and walked right off the pier and into Lake Michigan.…

A Florida man recently took a picture that has a lot of people in the Tampa Bay area talking. Oscar Hendrix was taking pictures of rainbows while driving near Lake Okeechobee. Though Hendrix is not a professional photographer, he says the [picture stunned him. It shows a white cloud against a darkened…

One of the cities hit hard by a tornado outbreak in Spring 2012, was East Bernstadt, Kentucky. Five people were killed and more than 40 were injured when a twister swept through the area. Though everyone will remember the day, Jason Jackson says he will always look back on the way the Lord intervened…

The Ant & The Dove In one of Aesop’s Fables, an ant went to the bank of a river to drink, fell into the stream, and found itself on the brink of drowning. A dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the stream close to the drowning ant. The ant climbed onto it and…

In The Church Awakening: An Urgent Call for Renewal, Charles Swindoll writes, “It is a house of prayer, not a house of business. It is a place of worship, not a place of entertainment. Jesus is our Savior whom we worship, not a brand to market.“ -The Church Awakening, Kindle Loc. 4019-20 Illustration…

A recent analysis of Internet trends found that though most Americans trust the information displayed on their computers, they have to beware of new risks. A look at online threats during the second half of 2009 showed that 81 percent of email was rigged to deliver “malicious” code and 95 percent of…

By the time police arrested him for the 22nd time, John Sala knew that he had reached the end of the line. This time he was guilty of attempted murder, aggravated assault, and grand theft. When the prison gate swung shut this time, it would be a long time before it reopened. Jail was the best thing that…

The children of Israel were ready to cross the Jordan into the Promised Land. But there was a barrier between them and the city of Jericho. The people of Jericho worshipped Baal. Baal was the god of water, rain, wind, storms, etc. At this time, the Jordan River was at flood stage. To the people of Jericho,…

It’s no secret that the majority of Hollywood stars are strong advocates for a woman’s right to choose whether or not she wants to terminate a pregnancy, however former "Sports Illustrated" supermodel-turned-entrepreneur-turned-author Kathy Ireland has gone against the grain of the glitterati and spoken…

SABILLASVILLE, Md. — On a sultry day in July 2008, Marine Sgt. David W. Budwah strode in his battle fatigues to the front of a picnic pavilion to tell three dozen young boys what he did during the war. With his clear gaze, rigid posture and muscled, tattooed arms, Budwah looked every inch the hero he…

Comforting Tears I was a green pastor about to make my first grief counseling call. The lady I was supposed to visit was a daughter-in-law of a neighbor of a member of the Church, or something like that. She was in her early twenties, about my age at the time, when her new husband died in a tragic automobile…

Baptism There are at least three reasons you should be baptized. First, you should be baptized to follow the example of Jesus."And after being baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon Him,"…

Baptism There are at least three reasons why every believer should be baptized. First, they should be baptized to follow the example of Jesus. Matthew 3:16 says, "And after being baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending…

110% My teammates cheered. Coach didn't say a word and neither did I. I usually enjoyed "Film Day," every Monday afternoon. Long before Camcorders and VHS tapes, our coach would have every game filmed on 16 mm, have it developed overnight and ready for Monday's practice. Dressed only in football pants…

“FLY TO JESUS!” (Isaiah 60:8) “Who are these who fly like a cloud And like the doves to their lattices?” The church, again, feels pleasure at the direction in which these doves move. “Who are these that fly as the doves to their windows?” Where should the dove fly to else but to its dovecot? The word…

Joni Eareckson Tada was born in 1949. At the age of 17 her life changed dramatically. She says, "One hot July afternoon in 1967, I dove into a shallow lake and my life changed forever. I suffered a spinal cord fracture that left me paralyzed from the neck down, without use of my hands and legs. Lying…

When I was a boy, for the magnificent sum of one English penny, one could purchase a platform ticket and go onto the platform of the local railway station. Those were the days of steam engines, and because our town was on the main line from the city of London to the country of Wales, it was a very busy…

In college a student was asked to prepare a lesson to teach his speech class. He was to be graded on creativity and ability to drive home a point in a memorable way. The title of his talk was, “The Law of the Pendulum.” He spent twenty minutes carefully teaching the physical principle that governs a…

From the quiet town of Bradford to the heathen city of Rangoon, Burma, Ann Judson remained a tool in the master’s hands. God brought her through many personal trying times before He could use her. He allowed her to be raised in a good home where she could develop and grow into a woman fit for the master’s…