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I have heard of an advertisement of a burial service that began, “Seeing that many persons find it extremely difficult to bury themselves …” That is not my experience; I would have to say, “Seeing that many church members find it exceedingly easy to bury themselves.” We receive them into our number with…

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…

Sunday is a comin’! (by S.M. Lockridge)

In January 2000, leaders in Charlotte, North Carolina, invited their favorite son, Billy Graham, to a luncheon in his honor. Billy initially hesitated to accept the invitation because he struggles with Parkinson's disease. But the Charlotte leaders said, "We don’t expect a major address. Just come and…

HOPE ---------- by Max Lucado The scene recorded in Luke 24:13-24 fascinates me-two sincere disciples walking along the dusty road to Emmaus telling how the last nail has been driven in Israel's coffin. God, in disguise, listens patiently, his wounded hands buried deeply in his robe. He must have been…

[HUMOR] You could have heard a pin drop When in England , at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by George Bush. He answered by saying, 'Over the years, the United States has sent many of its…

True progress is out of the question when everything is moving, road as well as carriage. There is a story told of a man who married his fourth wife, who had brought him money. The like had been the case with each of her predecessors. A friend said to him, “You seem to make a good thing of your wives,…

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…

Very moving story

Years ago, when they dug into a disused pit in a village, they took up some old rags, and as a consequence nearly all the people in that village died of the plague. They did not know what was in the old rags buried in the pit. So we are afraid of the old rags of sin; we do not like digging them up. Spurgeon,…

The ostrich is reported to bury her head in the sand and then suppose herself safe, but she is captured all the more speedily. We may shut our eyes and say, “I do not have sin,” but in so doing, instead of securing eternal salvation, we shall as practically give ourselves up to the destroyer as the bird…

Do you see that train steaming along the iron way? See, it plunges into a cavern in yonder hill! You have now lost sight of it. Has it perished? As on an angel’s wing, you fly to the top of the hill, and you look down on the other side. There it comes steaming forth again from the tunnel, bearing its…

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 sometimes thought of the contrast between the poor man’s funeral and the rich man’s funeral. When the poor man dies, his sons and daughters weep with real distress, for the death of the father brings sadness and sympathy into that house. The poor man is to be buried, but it can only be managed…

I was speaking yesterday to a friend who had bought a pleasant house, with a large garden. He said to me, “I now feel as if I had a home. I have lived in London for years, and I have changed from one house to another with as little regret as a man feels in changing a bus; but I have always longed for…

Leonard Durkin was suffering from heart failure. The Englishman was a huge Burger King fan and told his kin he wanted them to bury him with his usual order. He got his dying wish. On leaving the funeral the hearse carrying his corpse stopped at a Burger King drive-through, and a double bacon cheeseburger…

A British man who started to build a deck in yard during coronavirus lockdown made an unexpected discovery while digging. The man found someone had buried an entire car in the yard years earlier. John Brayshaw bought the home six months earlier and was digging post panels for a deck, when he found the…

When psychotherapist Andrey Zhelvetro has a troubled patient, he has an unusual cure. He buries them alive. He puts them in coffins and buries them in shallow graves in the woods. They have a rubber pipe that runs to the surface so they can breathe. After two hours, he digs them up. Patients come out…

When the novel coronavirus caused business to plummet, Johnny Perri decided to close the jewelry store his father had founded decades before. Rather than offer the remaining inventory at reduced prices, Perri created a statewide treasure hunt. He and his wife buried items across the state and let searchers…

A Staten Island, New York couple found a safe containing over $50,000 worth of diamonds, gold, jade, and wet cash in a rusting safe on their property. They believed the rusting box setting beneath some trees was an old cable box so they ignored it. When they had a couple of the trees removed, the safe…

Just out for a walk, a couple in California discovered a treasure worth more than $10 million. Where did they find the century old gold pieces?, They were buried in eight metal cans on their property. —Jim L. Wilson and Jason Blankenship https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-california-coins/california-couple-finds-10-million-in-buried-treasure-while-walking-dog-idUSBREA1P03M20140226…

A museum in Germany used the free time created by the pandemic to create a display that set a new Guinness World record. Frederik Braun and his team used the mandated shut down at the museum to set up a display with a model train and nearly 3000 glasses filled with varying amounts of water. They attached…

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…

When friends from a Michigan high school reunited to uncover a time capsule they buried 30 years earlier, they were disappointed that they couldn’t find it. The seven classmates and two teachers spent two hours digging outside the school looking for the capsule that contained a cassette tape and their…

Have you noticed how difficult it is to have a conversation with a friend these days without interruption? If one of you isn’t getting a text or call, the other is constantly glancing at their phone. A recent study by Asurion found that “Americans check their phone on average once every 12 minutes –…