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Rev. W. O. Taylor, 91, was the oldest man attending the Southern Baptist Convention a few years ago. At the annual free breakfast for retirees, Brother Taylor rose and recited his own alliterative version of the parable of the prodigal son, which he entitled "The Final Fixing of the Foolish Fugitive"

Very moving story

One life spent in distinct opposition to the gospel of Jesus is a terrible thing. A Scotchman took some thistle seed to Australia, that he might see a thistle grow on his farm. He only wanted one or two rare old Scotch thistles to make him think that he was at home. Now, thousands of acres are covered…

When a man’s heart is full of filth, when the desire to get gain and to get it anyhow is strong in a man, he is in a very unfit condition to profit by hearing the gospel. You cannot get the gospel into him; a golden bolt fastens the door. He is somewhat in the condition of the sea captain I have heard…

Just as a plowed field is full of life which helps to grow the plants, so too is God's Word full of life! Just as a farmer knows what his crop needs so too does Jesus know what we need from His Word!

Bodhi Johnson, who has a tattoo with the words “Only God can judge me” on his chest. In an attempt to avoid the judgment of others, he escaped from a high security prison in Queensland, Australia where he was serving six years for causing the death of another person. I have never understood why a criminal…

Archaeologists uncovered a rare stone sign establishing the city limit of ancient Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius around 49A.D. The sign was uncovered when workers excavated a new sewer system and is a huge slab of travertine used to mark off a sacred, military, and political perimeter highlighting…

When Lexi Longstreet of Junction City. Oregon heard that families with children fleeing wildfires had come to a high school in their area in search of necessities, she invited some friends to bring comfort and companionship to the children. Longstreet owns a party shop and took the role of Belle from…

Ferdinand (2017), is a cartoon movie about a peaceful bull with a big heart that was born in a farm for Spanish fighting bulls. The bulls from the farm fought with each other trying to prove who was the strongest and bravest that would face the bullfighter to defeat him. Ferdinand escaped from the training…

The hottest summer in decades helped British archeologists identify patterns of ancient dating back thousands of years. The key is cropmarks, or patterns of shading in crops and grass that can be seen from the air. These marks form faster in hot, dry weather and mark the location of ancient buildings,…

For decades, astronomers have theorized that the center of galaxies, including our own, are filled with black holes. The gravity from these collapsed stars is so strong that even light cannot escape. Using x-ray observations, astronomers have found signs of a least a dozen black holes in the inner parts…

Sparks flew at the Sunday celebration remembering Dr. King’s legacy of non-violence at Middle Collegiate Church in New York City. Deeply disturbed by the shootings in Newtown and Aurora, church member Mike Martin learned blacksmithing so he could transform symbols of violence into symbols that give life.…

When a Pennsylvania town was forced to use a backup Christmas tree for the civic lighting ceremony, resident complained, demanding the city replace the tree. The city had planned to use a Christmas tree from a tree farm for the tree in the town center, but when crews went to get it, the owners would…

There was a very poor man down in West Texas in the 1930s who barely made a living on a very poor sheep farm around Odessa and Midland. His name was E. L. Yates and he was so poor that he was contemplating bankruptcy and allowing the bank to repossess his farm. He was constantly worrying about how he…

According to tradition, in 1357 a Swiss man named Konrad Mueller killed another man named Heinrich Stucki. Part of the punishment was that Mueller and all subsequent owners of the farm had to give a local church 70 Swiss francs ($76 US) a year to cover the cost of candles and oil to keep an eternal lamp…

Recently, there was a picture in the newspaper of a three-wheeled tractor, with the following editorial comment, “The old farmer in his 50s or 60s sits on a tractor, driving it down a street, perhaps on his way to get it repaired. There is a major problem: he is missing the front left wheel. Not a flat…

When agricultural experts from the far away land of Israel arrived in Columbia and explained how the local farmers could make money growing potatoes, nobody believed them. Local farmers from Columbia’s northern desert region, La Guajira told the visitors the land would produce a lot of rocks, but not…

A farmer in Northern Ireland displayed an unusual response to the wardrobe of a pop star. Farmer Alan Graham had given permission for pop star Rihanna to use his farm to shoot a video for her latest music single. In the middle of the shoot, Graham decided the singer had gone too far and stopped the production.…

During the height of the Cold War, farmers in Soviet Estonia decided to use their assigned duties to send special messages to one of their communist allies. When Soviet authorities ordered the farmers to send potatoes to Cuba, the workers decided to include some messages as well. Hans Uba, who worked…

By Cayla Dengate March 30, 2011 3:30PM The face of Jesus in a three-cheese pizza made at Posh Pizza in New Farm, Brisbane. Source: Supplied ALL hail Lord Cheesus - the holy apparition that appeared in a pizza. In a purported "miracle'', the face of Jesus Christ has appeared on a three-cheese pizza made…

Recently the white house has dropped many regulations that “conflict, that are not worth the cost or that are just plain dumb.” “The EPA will no longer classify spilled milk at a dairy farm as an oil spill, saving $146 million.” “The Transportation Department will apply certain kinds of railroad safety…

The City Boy! Years ago, a young man from the big city was preaching in a small country town. He wanted to learn everything “country” so that he could fit in. As he searched for “Widow Jones’” farm, he got lost on the back roads. The he saw a farmer walking into his barn so he stopped for directions.…

He who forgets the humming of the bees among the heather, the cooing of the wood-pigeons in the forest, the song of birds in the woods, the rippling of rills among the rushes, and the sighing of the wind among the pines, needs not wonder if his heart forgets to sing and his soul grows heavy. A day’s…

I have seen this so clearly in my own family . . . not in my leadership but in that of my father. I remember when my sister and I were both teenagers. We had a fairly active teen group in our church and there was this one family who worked with us a good bit. They really were wonderful people, but they…

A cow that miraculously escaped a slaughterhouse in 2006 has been granted yet another lease on life. The bovine captured international attention when she leaped a 5-foot fence at a great Falls Montana packing plant. She dodged cars, trains, and dogs, before swimming the Missouri river, and finally being…