A small church congregation in rural Ohio met one Sunday evening to share prayer requests and praises with one another. Toward the end of their time together, a woman in her early ‘30s stood up and nervously walked forward.

Are you strong enough to face how mistaken many of your most cherished beliefs are? Well, here are a few things you may not have known:

The American painter John Sargent once painted a panel of roses that was highly praised by critics.

Old Eb was, like many of his breed, rather stingy with words. He said very little, and even when he spoke, it was rather grudgingly.

H. A. Ironside was once speaking with an elderly man who told him that he wanted to be sure of his salvation in Jesus Christ.

A pastor once recounted how, as a child, his mother sent him to pick a quart of raspberries. Reluctantly he dragged himself to the berry patch.

Many years ago, a senior executive of the then Standard Oil Company made a wrong decision that cost the company more than $2 million.

In the book Live and Learn and Pass It On, H. Jackson Brown, Jr., recounted some of the life lessons people of different ages said they’d learned.

A man was touring a paper factory in England that many said made the finest paper in the world.

A man awoke very early one morning to find a puddle of water in the middle of his king-size waterbed.