One Sunday in a Midwest city, a little boy was acting up during the morning worship hour at church. The parents did their best to maintain some sense of order in the pew…
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Our five senses give us some astonishing capabilities, don’t they? The human can see a candle’s flame 30 miles away on a dark, clear night and smell a single drop of perfume…
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Author Jamie Buckingham once visited a dam on the Columbia River. He noted that he’d always thought that the water spilling over the top of the dam provided the power that generated the turbines within…
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A survey conducted in the 1990s by the American Academy of Family Physicians showed that 99% of doctors believe that a relationship exists between faith and physical healing…
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A woman recognized the famous pastor F. B. Meyer one day in her neighborhood, and she ventured to share her burden with him…
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It is said that on his retreat from Greece after his great military expedition, King Xerxes boarded a Phoenician ship along with a number of his troops. But they were hit by a terrible storm…
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Winston Churchill quite often exemplified integrity and respect in the face of opposition. During his last year in office, he attended an official ceremony…
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A farmer went to meet with his banker and announced that he had some bad news and some good news. “First, the bad news… I can’t make my mortgage payments…”
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Whenever you go to a doctor for your annual check-up, he or she will often begin to poke, prod, and press various places, all the while asking, “Does this hurt?”…
Read MoreThe importance of giving substance to your faith
A young boy, on an errand for his mother, had just bought a dozen eggs. As he walked out of the store, he tripped and dropped the sack, breaking every egg he had bought…
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