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Many years ago a certain prince visited the Spanish galleys, where a large number of convicts were confined, chained to their oars to toil on without relief—I think nearly all of them condemned to a life sentence. Being a great prince, the King of Spain told him that he might in honor of his visit set…

God snatches victory from the jaws of defeat in each of our lives!

I hear the accuser roar Of ills that I have done; I know them well, and thousands more, Jehovah findeth none. Though the restless foe accuses— Sins recounting like a flood, Ev’ry charge our God refuses; Christ has answered with His blood. —Author unknown [1] [1]J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible commentary…

Guilt is very suspicious. When you have done wrong to a man, you cannot believe him. Nothing renders you so full of doubt toward another as your own consciousness of having acted unjustly toward him. Now, when a sense of guilt comes over the soul, nature begins to say, “Can the Lord be a sin-pardoning…

An illustration from Dr. James Merritt

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 beautiful spirit worthy of a Christian was that of a man who found his horse in the pound one day. The farmer who put it in said, “I found your horse in my field, and I put it in the pound. If I ever catch it there again, I’ll put it in again.” “Well,” replied the other, “I found six of your cows in…

The Egyptians at the Red Sea were not destroyed little by little; they were not swallowed up in the flood a regiment at a time; the eager depths that had by miracle been divided for a time leaped together, and Pharaoh and his hosts, all of them, were covered, to be seen no more forever. Sing unto the…

New evidence is sometimes brought into court that completely changes the aspect of the case. If you have been on a jury, you would not like to tell your fellow jurors how many times you have changed your mind while you have heard the evidence. If you have listened attentively, I expect you have had half…

If your house were on fire, you would rejoice to hear that the fire engines were coming down the street. You would feel an absolute certainty that they were coming to you, because your house was in a blaze if no one’s else might be. If there were appointed today a commissioner for the relief of such…

Who among us can tell all the perils of this mortal life? I remember reading a work in which there were collected together numerous instances of the simple means by which men have died, such as the swallowing of a fruit stone, or the sticking of a small bone in the throat, the breathing of some invisible…

Kim Hyon-hui was a young student in 1987 when the North Korean government took her out of school and trained her for a special mission. After months of training, agents gave her a time bomb shaped like a radio. Her mission; put the bomb aboard a South Korean Airliner headed for Seoul then leave the plane…

In You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times, Max Lucado writes, “Forgiveness vacillates like this. It has fits and starts, good days and bad. Anger intermingled with love. Irregular mercy. We make progress only to make a wrong turn. Step forward and fall back. But this is okay.…

Officials at Delaware State University announced they are cancelling over $730,000 dollars in student debt for graduating students who faced financial hardships during the pandemic. Officials said the average eligible student will qualify for about $3200 in debt relief which totals about a third of a…

A spokesperson for the Manitoba library in Canada said employees were surprised to find a magazine in the return slot that had been checked out in June 1975. The Winnipeg Public library said a 1975 issue of Car Craft Magazine had been placed in the return bin. The card inside revealed the magazine was…

In a Wall Street Journal article, lawyer Mike Chase commented about the calls for criminal action in our current political climate. It seems that each side in the political debate is anxious to see those on the other side locked up. On his twitter feed Chase posts one statute or regulation per day and…

Diane De Han watched an Oregon court sentence the man who killed her son to prison, and was prepared to hate him or seek revenge. Instead, when she saw the 21-year-old man in court with no one to support him, and heard his confession, her heart went out to him. Within two weeks, De Han wrote the man…

Fyli, a municipality in Greece, northwest of Athens has a debt of $500 million. They have been granted generous terms for repayment. In 2016, authorities awarded the city 25,546 months to pay meaning the debt will finally be paid in 4144. Our debt of sin could not be paid, even if we had 25,000 months…

One thing is certain, unless the Lord returns each one of us has death in our future. One South Korean mortuary is offering people the chance to experience a taste of what their own death might be like. The mortuary invites the public to dress in shrouds, write their last testaments, and lie in closed…

A Dallas Texas court convicted a former Dallas police officer of murder. The officer, Amber Guyger, had mistakenly entered the wrong apartment and fired her service weapon when she mistook the resident for an intruder. The victim’s brother, Brandt Jean embraced the police officer and told her, “I love…

In his book, Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You, Andy Stanley writes, "If you’re a Christian, you aren’t expected to treat others the way you’ve been treated by others; you’ve been called to treat people the way you’ve been treated by your Father in heaven. You…

When an elementary aged boy called 911, complaining that he was hungry and asking for a pizza, he got a surprise visit from local authorities. The unidentified boy called the Sanford, Florida 911 operator and asked if they could send a pizza over. The department sent three officers to the home instead…

In his book, Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You, Andy Stanley writes, "In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feels like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another." –Jim L. Wilson…

The Bible never tells us to forgive and forget, but imagine how easy it would be to forgive others if we could forget. A teen in North Carolina knows all about that. Since suffering a concussion during track practice in 2017, every night when she sleeps her mind resets and purges her memories of the…

Khmer Rouge regime members, Khieu Samphan, 87, and Nuon Chea, 92, were tried and convicted of killing 1.7 million people. From 1975 to 1979 they worked to make Cambodia a communist state where food and money would be collected by the government and then redistributed to the public. They felt that they…