Pete and Tony were best friends and die-hard baseball fans. One day they were munching on stadium nachos at a game and Pete said…
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On October 2, 1840, Rev. Dan Edwards was ordained as a missionary to the Jews. He received a letter shortly after from the famous pastor, Robert Murray McCheyne, who wrote…
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In 1879, Thomas Edison was fast at work on a crazy contraption called a “light bulb.” Once they worked out the kinks, it took a team of men…
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The famous missionary Hudson Taylor knew what it meant to trust in God’s faithfulness. In his journal he wrote:
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Prayer is one of the toughest disciplines to practice as you follow Jesus.
It is so contrary to how many of us grew up. In my family you might hear, “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get going!”… because life depended on you. There was no thought of prayer. In fact, there was no thought of God!
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Over 2,000 years ago, a young Greek artist named Timanthes studied under a respected tutor. After several years, the teacher’s efforts…
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After waiting over an hour for her date to arrive and pick her up, a young woman finally realized that she had been stood up. Frustrated and a little embarrassed…
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When it comes to overconfidence, golf legend Arnold Palmer recalls a tough lesson he once learned in a tournament…
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For centuries, people believed that Aristotle was right when he said that the heavier an object, the faster it would fall to earth. Anyone, of course, at any time, could’ve taken a heavy object…
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At the famed Battle of Inchon in the Korean War, Marine Corps General Chesty Puller made a powerful statement about the importance of perspective…
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