You may be familiar with the famous "Study of Praying Hands" by Albrecht Durer (1472-1528), but you may not have heard the story behind the artwork. When Albrecht was young, he and his friend Franz were studying to be artists while both were working long hours at other jobs. Rather than both failing...

A Marine stationed in Afghanistan recently received a "Dear John" letter from his girlfriend back home. It read as follows: Dear Ricky, I can no longer continue our relationship. The distance between us is just too great. I must admit that I have cheated on you twice since you've been gone, and it's not fair to...

I heard a great story about this fancy club that wouldn't allow golfers in, even if their families came over on the Mayflower. The families had to be descended from the guy who owned the ship. Then some members invited a business acquaintance out to play golf with them. "I'm Jewish," the man said. "They won't let me play...

A small boy dialed "0" and asked the operator to call a number for him. He didn't speak clearly, so she couldn't understand him. After repeating it four times, he blurted out, "You operators are dumb," and slammed down the receiver. Hearing this, his mother was...

Here is what Larry King said of the most recent scandal to rock the evangelical world: How sincere is Rev. Swaggart? Thoughts on the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, who this writer knows pretty well: I would...

Dr. John MacArthur has noted that some Christians are like the Arctic River, frozen over at the mouth - they just don't say anything.

On one occasion F.B. Meyer visited D.L. Moody in Northfield, Massachusetts. Moody, showing Meyer a team of oxen, said that whenever one of those oxen was being yoked in, the other, which might be on the far side of the farmyard, would come trotting up and stand beside the other one until it was yoked in also. Meyer ...

"May it be Thy will that the Temple be speedily rebuilt in our days" That plea to God, recited three times a day in Jewish prayers, expresses a yearning that makes Jerusalem's Temple Mount potentially the most volatile 35 acres on earth. Two Talmudic schools located near the...

When change is successful we look back at it and call it growth!