A cowboy was driving down a dirt road late one night in his pickup truck with his horse riding in the trailer behind. He failed to negotiate a curve and his truck tipped over and landed in a ditch, knocking the cowboy unconscious…

Many years ago, a young Frenchman captured the world’s attention by walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York City’s World Trade Center. At 1,350 feet above the ground, the man walked effortlessly from one tower to the next as spectators below looked on…

The president of a large missions ministry sat across from one of his wealthiest board members and his wife one evening over dinner. He shared about all that God was doing in the ministry and about the lives that were being impacted across the globe…

The great pianist legacy Jan Padrewski achieved tremendous popularity all over the world around the turn of the 20th century. Yet, said Padrewski, “There have been few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better”…

Pliny the Elder, a Roman writer who lived during the same time period as Jesus, told a story of the setting of a 99-foot-tall obelisk. Over 20,000 workers were chosen to pull on the ropes to hoist the apparatus. This was a tremendous responsibility. Just one mishap could cause the obelisk to fall and destroy years of work…

More than anything else, the Presidency of the United States rests on the character of the person who inhabits the office. This is how the founders of the U.S. designed it. It was their idea to find a person in America with great character who would shape the character of the nation…

Several years ago, Douglas Aircraft went head-to-head against Boeing to try to sell Eastern Airlines its first big jets. The President of Eastern Airlines, Eddie Rickenbacker, told Douglas that the specifications on their aircrafts were nearly identical to Boeing’s with the exception of noise suppression, an area which Boeing had perfected…

The famous author Robert Louis Stevenson tells of a storm that caught a ship off a rocky coast and threatened to drive the ship into the rocks, which would mean certain destruction. In the midst of the ordeal, one of the passengers disobeyed the crew’s orders, got up, and walked up to the deck where he saw the ship’s pilot holding the wheel unwaveringly…

While studying in the Holy Land, a seminary professor met a man who claimed to have memorized the entire Old Testament in Hebrew. So the professor asked the man if he could give a demonstration. The man agreed, and the two met at the man’s home…

In 1915, a Russian Armenian Christian was reading his Bible when he was beheaded for his faith. That Bible still exists today, and a red stain which permeates most of the book can still be seen. This man was one of more than a million casualties from a religious and ethnic holocaust carried out by Turkish Muslims from 1915-1923…