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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…

Do you remember the story of Desert Pete’s Pump? A rundown shack stood beside a seldom used trail in the California desert. Nearby was a well, the only source of water for miles around. At tin can was tied to the pump with a string. Inside was a message written on a piece of brown wrapping paper with…

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…

FIRST PERSON - Religiously correct prayer: The secular left goes berserk By R. Albert Mohler Jr. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--As expected, the inaugural ceremonies for President George W. Bush opened and closed with prayer. Unexpectedly, the prayers have ignited controversy and unleashed a firestorm of histrionics…

There is the story of a preacher who got up one Sunday and announced to his congregation: I have good news and bad news. The good news is, we have enough money to pay for our new building program. The bad news is, it's still in your pockets. ------------------------------------------------- While driving…

Pastors today are faced with more work, more problems, and more stress than any other time in the history of the church. This is taking a frightening toll on the ministry, shown by the statistics below: Pastors: · Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout…

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…

As 2016 wound down, scientists announced that the year was going to a little longer than most, one second longer to be exact. To make up for slowing in the Earth’s rotation countries using Coordinated Universal Time added the leap second during the countdown to 2017. The timing for the rest of the world…

Shane Houston and a friend from New Hampshire were on a metal-detecting trip in New England and obtained permission to search the ground outside a church in Maine. Houston said they found several interesting items, but the most interesting discovery was a 222-year-old copper penny dating to the first…

An Italian village is attempting to attract new residents by offering low cost housing and a safe environment. Cinquefrondi, in the southern region of Calabria considers itself “COVID-free” because there have not been any confirmed cases of coronavirus in the community, and the region has one of Italy’s…

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…

Six-year-old Bridger Walker of Cheyenne, Wyoming, his sister, and a friend went into the friend’s backyard to play. The friend explained there was one “nice” dog and a “mean” dog in the yard. The “mean” dog ran at the children. According to Bridger’s account “I stepped to the side, in front of my sister…

In 97 years, a person makes a lot of health decisions, some that he may live to regret. Rowena Donaldson just turned 97. He says he is often reminded about healthy choices he has made over those years. One of the biggest he says he made in December 1952, when he read an article in the Reader’s Digest…

Baseball card collectors saw several new record prices for the collectables in a short time during the pandemic. In August 2020, a Mike Trout rookie card sold for $3.93 million, and then nearly a year, later a spotless edition of the rare T206 Honus Wagner card produced between 1909 and 1911 sold for…

A 13-year-old boy who was abandoned by his previous adoptive family found a new forever home with a very understanding parent. Tony Mutabazi had been in the foster care system since the age of two, and was adopted the first time at the age of 4. Seven years later he was left at a hospital and his parents…

Billy Joe Shaver wrote country music for the superstars, including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Elvis Presley, and Willie Nelson. All was not well with Billy Joe though. For years he struggled with his addiction to drugs and alcohols. By his own testimony, that addiction ended after he found Jesus Christ.…

Damien was a 12-year-old with an autoimmune disease that was causing his kidneys to shut down. He lived in foster homes until the disease progressed to the point he had to be hospitalized. Without a stable home environment, and because a transplant involves a lot of loving care, Damien was ineligible…

A German multimillionaire has invited 10 “nice people” to live with him on his 550-acre property in New Zealand. International businessman Karl Reipen placed an ad in the New Zealand Herald two times inviting up to ten people to share the “paradise” he has created. The property features horse stables,…

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…

More than 30 years after his father died, an Oklahoma man paid tribute to his father by tracking down and buying a Dodge Challenger that his father previously owned. Bobbie Bohnsak was eight years old when his father died in an accident. He shared his father’s name and as he grew also shared his father’s…

A New Zealand couple found a massive potato weighing more than 17 pounds when they cleared out the vegetable garden at the end of the season. Colin and Donna Craig-Brown said they were not sure what they had found under a few inches of dirt. The Craig-Browns think the potato might have been growing in…

Traveling with her son gave Kendra Robins an idea to minster to homeless children around the country. Robins noticed that her son slept better away from home when he had a familiar item to snuggle with. She realized children spending an evening in a homeless shelter might be afraid to sleep because they…

Studies have differed over the years so if you are confused, it may not be your fault. Most of the latest studies promote the health benefits of drinking coffee. But now a new study throws another curve at the coffee loving health addict. The health benefits of coffee depend on the way the coffee is…

When does a person begin to be old? New data indicates that the precise age at which an average person hits the low point of the lifelong “happiness curve” is 47.19. Suddenly the ticking of the clock grows much louder. We know that we begin to age the day we are born. Most of us don’t think of 48 as…

Andrew Eberhart lost his mother to cancer when he was 13. To cope with the pain, Eberhart turned down the dark road of drug addiction to cope with the pain he could not understand. 16 years later Revive Ministries helped him change direction and get clean. Eberhart and his wife wanted to help others…