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Suppose you had been a pig all your life, and that you were suddenly made into a man. Well, now you are a man, you look through a telescope; swine cannot do that. You look through a microscope; I never knew a pig do that in my life. Swine do not talk, but you speak, you sing, you pray, you are quite…

Many dear children are called by God so early that they cannot precisely tell when they were converted. But they were converted; they must at some time or other have passed from death to life. You could not have told this morning, by observation, the moment when the sun rose, but it did rise. There was…

There lived some few years ago in Perugia, in Italy, a man of the loosest morals and the worst conceivable disposition. He had given up all religion, he loathed God, and had arrived at such a desperate state of mind that he had conceived an affection for the devil, and endeavored to worship the evil…

The law ceases its office as pedagogue when it comes to be written on our hearts. Boys have their lessons on slates, but men have their laws in their minds. We trust a man where we would carefully watch a boy. When the child becomes a man, his father and mother do not write down little rules for him,…

If Niagara could suddenly be made to leap upward instead of forever dashing downward from its rocky height, it would not be such a miracle as to change the perverse will and the raging passions of men. To wash the Ethiopian white, or remove the leopard’s spots, is proverbially a difficulty, yet these…

From Max Lucado, "A Gentle Thunder"

Some men tell the tale of their past lives as if it really was very grand and very creditable to them to have done such abominable things. A man gets up in a meeting and says, “My dear friends, I have done that which, if it had been known, would have brought me to the gallows.” “Then sit down,” says…

Go into a telegraph office at any time, and you will see certain needles moving right and left with unceasing click. Electricity is a great mystery, and you cannot see or feel it, but the operator tells you that the electric current is moving along the wire. How does he know? “I know it by the needle.”…

When you can't trace God's hand, you can trust God's heart. Charles Spurgeon

A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, Who would like this $20 bill? Hands started going up. He said, I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this. He proceeded to crumple the dollar bill up. He then asked, Who still…

Comparing church activities to the game of football

When the Moravian missionaries first went to Greenland, they were months and months teaching the poor Greenlander about the Godhead, the doctrine of the Trinity, and the doctrine of sin and the law, and no converts were forthcoming. But one day, by accident, one of the Greenlanders happened to read that…

Very moving story

To me it is a solemn memory that I professed my faith openly in baptism. I vividly recall the scene. It was the third of May, and the weather was cold because of a keen wind. I see the broad river, and the crowds that lined the banks, and the company on the ferry boat. The word of the Lord was preached…

In a lonely hospital room where doctors were testing him for a possible heart attack, Bernie received a visit from a local pastor. Before the pastor left the room, Bernie repented of his sins and professed faith in Jesus Christ. Bernie Carbo was Major League Baseball’s rookie of the year in 1970. He…

A study out of the United Kingdom indicates many men are too afraid of what other people think to order what they really want for dinner. Researchers at the University of Southampton say that “men choose meat dishes for dinner because they fear what others around them would think if they ordered vegetarian.”…

You have heard a lot about Foxhole conversions. A soldier hunkering down in a hole while the battle is ongoing, makes a promise to walk with God if God will get him out of the situation. Bill Patten’s conversion wasn’t made deep in the earth, but high in the sky. Bill was co-piloting a B17 bomber over…

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…

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.…

Most of the current movie and television hits are reruns or sequels of previous hits. Harry Potter on Broadway, Star Wars, Wonder Woman, and Avengers are all reboots or follow-ons at the movies. Television hits are Roseanne and Lost in Space from years ago. Why are all the new shows throw-backs? The…

On December 26, 1919, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sent Babe Ruth, his best baseball player to the New York Yankees for only $25,000 because he needed the money to finance a musical. As a Yankee, Ruth set the record for home runs, and led his team to four World Series victories. The Red Sox, on the other…

An unexpected trip to the gas station turned out to be a life-changing event for NFL player Tre Boston. Boston was a free agent was trying to decide whether he should sign with the L.A. Chargers or the Buffalo Bills. While driving, he noticed that the price of gas had dropped nearly 20 cents a gallon.…

When Kim Phuc Phan Thai was a 9-year-old child her war planes dropped bombs and napalm on her village in Vietnam. A journalist snapped a picture of the girl, naked, running from the village, screaming in pain from the napalm burning her neck, back, and arms. You have probably seen the photo. It became…

Research from the University of Dundee suggests that it might be a good practice to avoid making important decisions on an empty stomach. Director of the study, Dr. Benjamin Vincent said they discovered that hunger alters people’s decision making process, because they become more impatient and more likely…

Gary Paxton wrote over 2,000 songs. The two best-known songs from the 1950’s were “Alley-Oop” and “Monster Mash.” All the time he was writing he struggled with a tumultuous personal life. He made and lost a fortune, overcame addiction, and was once gravely wounded when a disgruntled singer hired hit…