The cartoon This Funny World once showed a couple leaving church. The wife said to her husband, "I'll tell you why it's always the same old sermon. The only time you come is on Easter Sunday, that's why!"

The sculptures of Michelangelo thrill art lovers all over the world. They are moved by the grace of his David, but he never signed it. They are awed by the majesty of his Moses, but he never signed it. They are thunderstruck at the impact of the Medici Tomb, but he never signed it. The only sculpture he ever signed is the...

John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, always kept a cross in his pocket. He kept it there to remind himself that there is something more important in life than basketball! The cross reminds us that there is something more important in life than anything else -- that Jesus died and rose again. That's more important than...

The largest cross in the world is located on Bald Knob mountain in southern Illinois. It towers 111 feet high and can be seen for miles in every direction. But the true cross towers higher. It towers above our vain ambition, above our petty concerns, above all that is material, or worldly. It towers above life itself!

According to the book Signfica, by Irving Wallace, a man named William Phelps Eno can be called the father of traffic safety. When he was born, there were no automobiles, but Eno watched as horses gave way to carriages, which gave way to automobiles. He wrote numerous articles on traffic safety and practical traffic...

So many stories have come out of the terrorist attack of September 11. One of the most poignant, carried by the Associated Press, was the discovery by rescue workers in the rubble of the World Trade Center of a large perfectly shaped cross, twenty feet tall. The cross was formed as a result of the destruction. It was...

Blaise Pascal was a theologian, mathematician, scientist and philosopher. At the time of his death, those who cared for him found a parchment sewn into his clothing. It was a testimony concerning his conversion. Part of it says this: "Year of grace 1654, Monday 23, November ... from about half past ten at night to about half an...

In Elysa Gardner's USA Today tribute to Richard Rogers, she tells a story that gives us a clue to his extraordinary success in musical theater. She relates comments made by Rogers' eldest daughter Mary. "He wouldn't read The New Yorker, unless he thought it would make a good musical. That's the mark of genius I think - being...

The Book of Kells is one of the most beautiful and revered illustrated manuscripts of the scriptures. A beautiful book with text by Ben MackworthPraud tells its remarkable story. The copyists displayed their love for the scriptures by their beautiful artwork and ornamentation. It is quite remarkable that the book has...

USA Today reported that a survey of a major Christian book retailing chain showed a remarkable increase of 22% in Bible sales as a result of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC. Many churches reported a full house the Sunday after the attacks. While there is certainly nothing wrong with...