Grandma Moses Her name was Anna Mary Robertson Moses, affectionately know as Grandma Moses. She was born on a farm in Washington Co., N.Y. Without formal art training and largely self-educated, she began to paint rural scenes at the age of seventy-eight. Her work was discovered in 1939 by Loui

David Jeremiah tells the story of a small boy who was terrified of thunderstorms at night. Whenever the lightning and thunder would begin, he would invariably end up at his parents bedside and saying, "I'm scared." On one particular night, his father told him, "You don't need to be afraid of the sto

Hum the First Line My husband and I were enjoying an impromptu concert of Sunday school songs from our grandchildren, Jacey, 7, and Jessica, 4. After they'd run through their repertoire, Jacey began making up songs of his own, using Scripture he knew. I was impressed. "Jacey," I said, "you've lear

During a Billy Sunday evangelistic campaign, a mentally impaired boy came faithfully each night to sing in the choir. "Joey was not very bright," said Homer Rodeheaver, the well-known song leader, "but he never missed any of our meetings and wouldn't leave until he shook my hand. Sometimes I was emb

The Right Image Recently I read an interesting item in the newspaper that illustrates the importance of mental association in making decisions. A high school in Virginia offered a course called "Home Economics for Boys." Needless to say, it got little attention. So the following year it was renamed

Evangelist Paul Rader has often urged a banker in New York State to receive Christ, but the man would not make the decision. One day the preacher sensed that God wanted him to go immediately and speak to him again. So he took a train to the town where the man worked, hurried to the bank, and found h

It is entertaining television. We must reckon with the powerful fact and force of television. It is a comparatively recent force. But it is a fact and a force that is here to stay. But with us as God's people it is a force to be controlled and curbed and combated and in many cases censored. We mu

"The truth is that you can stand most anything, serve in any situation and bear almost any burden if you know for sure that God isn't angry at you." (Steve Brown, www.keylife.org)

According to a Jan. 6 Agape Press story, a recent study reveals that a large majority of young kids are spending a significant amount of time in front of electronic media - and experts aren't sure what the long-term effects of that habit will be. The study, released by the Kaiser Family Foundation,

The Praying Hypocrite I knelt to pray when day was done, And prayed, "Lord, bless everyone; Lift from each heart the pain, And let the sick be well again." And then I woke again one day, And carelessly went on my way; The whole day long I did not try To wipe a tear from any eye. I did not try