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A farmer plows his field, and if it brings forth no harvest, he may plow it again; but he will not always go on plowing a field that is as barren as a rock. A gardener may come to a fig tree, and if it bears no fruit, he may prune it, and dig about it, and dung it, but he will not go on doing that year…

In THANKS! How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier, Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D. writes, "I think about those courageous individuals who left Plymouth and sailed to Holland and then crossed the Atlantic to New England in 1620. All but three families dug graves in the rocky soil of New England to bury…

While a North Dakota farmer was harvesting his wheat and canola, the combine he was using caught fire. Lane Unhjem went into cardiac arrest and was rushed to the hospital. While he was recovering, 60 neighboring farmers showed up at his place, determined not to let his crops go to waste. With 11 combines,…

A couple moving out of their home in Sudbury England contacted a local auction house to help them sell off items they no longer needed. Among the items they planned to sell were a pair of sphinx statues that the couple believed were replicas made in the 18th century. The Auction house didn’t question…

A ring that slipped off a girl’s finger while planting her garden turned up wrapping around one of the plants she planted. Madison Cooper said she lost the ring while planting garlic at a Foundation near her hometown in October 2019. She was upset because the ring was a gift from her grandmother when…

Stella Wedell went on vacation to Spain with her family when she was 12 years old. ON that trip she lost a cassette tape of her favorite music. Wedell couldn’t find the tape and wasn’t even sure where she lost it. 20 years later, Wedell visited Spain again and went to see an exhibition by a British artist…

For the first time since forecasters began recording data in Los Angeles 132 years ago, the city failed to reach a high of 70 degrees for the month of February in 2019. The average high for the month was 61 degrees, significantly lower than the historical February average of 68 degrees. That means February…

A German man was heartbroken when he lost his wedding ring while gardening. When he told his wife about the loss, she assured him that the ring would eventually reappear. The couple had just celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary, and continued to hope they would find the symbol of their enduring…

In 2015, there was an increase in the number of sea lion pups found on the Southern California beaches. The National Marine Fisheries Service is overwhelmed by the number and do not have the resources to rescue all of them, one official said, “It’s like a paramedic not having a hospital to bring a patient.”…

Apple announced that they recovered more than 40 million dollars from their trash. The company recovered more 2,200 pounds of gold from recycled iPhones, iPads, and Macs. With gold valued at over $1,200 an ounce, the company gained over $40 million dollars from the recycling venture. Manufacturers use…

One quarter of the world’s people have the condition known as myopia, or nearsightedness. That represents a 66% increase since 1970. Experts say the condition has skyrocketed as children spend more time indoors, staring at computer screens. The prediction is that by 2020 the number will increase to one…

Having not being notified of a hospital board meeting, Dr. Edwin West was the only Doctor available near the newborn nursery on a spring day back in 1976. A call went out for him to look at a prematurely born baby who had stopped breathing. He did mouth to face breathing, face because the baby’s face…

In his book, The Fifth Gospel, North Carolina pastor Bobby Conway encourages Christians to do more than read the Bible, but to live it as well. Conway says the inspiration for the book came from British evangelist Gypsy Smith who said, “There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and the Christian.…

Scientists believe there are as many as 70 isolated tribes in the Brazilian Amazon that have had only limited contact with the outside world, mainly through rubber harvesters and mahogany loggers. It is rare for an uncontacted people to emerge from the jungle, but scientists say they were ready when…

An anonymous millionaire with cash to spare is giving an unusual gift to the people of San Francisco. The man, who would only say that he is a successful real estate investor between the ages of 35 and 45, is hiding envelopes containing cash and then leaving clues about his drops on Twitter. The people…

According to the Society of Automotive Engineers, one driver in four failed to use a signal to make a turn or change lanes. Forty-two percent of the drivers who failed to use a signal said that they did not have time, and twenty-three percent of them said that they were lazy to do it. – Jim L. Wilson…

The extremely cold weather across much of North America in early January 2014, created an odd comparison between two planets. On the first day of 2014, the temperature in Winnipeg, Manitoba was 31 below zero Celsius. In the meantime, on Mars, which is over 100 million miles further away from the sun,…

The summer of 2012 is proving to be difficult for the managers of America’s pools and beaches. They are undergoing a lifeguard shortage. Operators of both private and public swimming places are having a difficult time maintaining public safety. In Minneapolis 16-year-old Chiccena Carpenter drowned in…

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…

About 37,000 Americans end their own lives each year. This is more than die each year in car crashes. Safety improvements have cut the death toll of car crashes by 25% but suicides have kept rising. No government safety program can stop the devastation of a life hungry for meaning or lost in depression…

In License to Pawn: Deals, Steals, and My Life at the Gold & Silver, Rick Harrison says, “I’ve tried a lot of things that have worked and a lot that failed. I wasn’t afraid of failure, and I knew if I could make this a success it would be a huge success. It didn’t seem like a risk at all.” -- License…

On April 14, 1912, the unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg. It sent out a message that began, “C.Q.D.” –“Come Quickly Distressed” to weather stations along the East Coast. Until recently, historians believed that no one received the message. In 2005, workers renovating a weather station at Cape Hatteras…

Bob Bakke, of National Prayer Advance, tells of churches of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and their experience of this kind of prayer. After the first Great Awakening, three churches in this community covenanted to follow the pattern suggested by Edwards. In each congregation, cell groups would meet weekly…

The recent disappearance of a previously unknown tribe in the Brazilian Amazon emphasizes the urgency of taking the Gospel to those who have never heard. In February 2011, the Brazilian government released aerial photos of a tribe that was previously undiscovered. The government took steps to protect…

John Maxwell asked God to send leaders to build the church at every one of his pastorates. Maxwell says for fourteen years, at least once a month he would meet someone who was visiting the church for the first time. As they introduced themselves, Maxwell says the Lord would speak to him, saying, “John,…