Thomas Edison was concerned about the way visitors to his office helped themselves to his expensive Havana cigars. So since he refused to lock them up…
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God has moved powerfully this year to bring about some exciting changes and opportunities to help reach and encourage more seniors. Together with friends like you, we have recently developed a Senior Living Ministries app, been able to help more seniors needing prayer, and have added members to our Prayer Team. You’ll also be excited to hear that we have produced two new devotional books…
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Peter Kreeft tells us that in the Latin rite for the burial of an Austrian emperor, the people carry the corpse to the door of the great monastic church. They strike the door and say…
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Many years ago, a popular zoo in England had to pay visitors for articles stolen by monkeys. But what puzzled them was the item the animals consistently snatched: eyeglasses. Was it the reflection off the lenses that provoked the theft? No one could figure it out…
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There is a tale told of the great English stage actor, William Macready. One day, an eminent preacher asked him…
Read MoreAvoiding the trap of covetousness
Writer Bob James recalls a time when he laid a small circle of poison around a hill of stinging ants. Thinking the tiny granules of poison were food, the ants began to pick them up and carry them throughout the colony. He returned later to see hundreds of the stinging ants carrying the poison down into their hill…
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The Prussian king Frederick the Great was widely known as an agnostic. By contrast, General Von Zealand, one of his most trusted officers, was a devout Christian. So during a festive gathering one evening, the king began making crude jokes about Christ until everyone was rocking with laughter—all but Von Zealand, that is…
Read MoreHow to overcome division within the body of Christ
Mstislav “Slava” Rostropovich is a world-famous cellist. Since his exile from his native Russia in 1974, he has lived in the West. When Communist hard-liners pulled a coup several years ago, Slava was in Paris…
Read MoreThe key to resolving conflict
Years ago, a large statue of Christ was erected high in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile. Called “Christ of the Andes,” this statue symbolizes a pledge between the two countries that as long as the statue stands, there will be peace between Chile and Argentina…
Read MoreThe humble confidence you have in Christ
Former French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau fought many duels with various rivals. On one occasion, he surprised one of his assistants by asking the attendant at a Paris railroad station for a one-way ticket to the duel. “Isn’t that a little pessimistic?” asked the assistant…
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