Driving through Austria, a tourist saw a policeman in the village ahead. He slowed down. Then He saw it was not a policeman but a life-size picture of a policeman. Apparently they couldn't afford an actual policeman, so they just got a picture of one. Of course, it didn't slow down the locals, but it certainly slowed down the...

A preacher I know has a daughter who keeps a daily notebook. On one page she had drawn a picture of her father and written carefully his name and address. When asked why, she explained. She had been watching a movie, Amnesia. She said, "If I ever forget who I am, I want everybody to know who I belong to." We might like...

Christ began His ministry turning water into wine and ended it turning wine into blood. The first was literal, the second was symbolic. We often use the word blood in a symbolic way. When we speak of family we say that blood is thicker than water. When we speak of inherited gifts we say, "It's in his blood." We say that the blood of...

The famous general Stonewall Jackson avoided alcohol. Once when he was very ill and the weather was bad, his doctor persuaded him to take some brandy. Jackson was reluctant. "Don't you like it?" asked the doctor. "I like it very much, "said Jackson." That is why...

Many regard the Taj Mahal as the most beautiful building ever constructed. Most visitors to India want to see it above all other sights. It was built by Shah Jehan as both a mausoleum and also a monument to his beloved wife. There is a legend about this famous building. The legend says that during the long process of...

A. D. Correll is the CEO of Georgia-Pacific, the leading forest-products company in the country. Recently Sky magazine quoted Correll on the value of trees. He said that a growing tree is "the most wonderful pollution control device ever devised. It takes carbon dioxide out of the air and converts it to oxygen and stores the...

In November 1993 Esquire magazine carried an article entitled "How to Live Forever." The article said that if all gerontogenes are deactivated, if cancer and heart disease are conquered, if genes can be tricked into regenerating organ tissue, and if all causes of senescence are eliminated, the median life span will increase to...

A man said he was an army sergeant stationed in Europe and his job was to help get the chapel ready for services on Sunday. He himself never attended, but he got everything ready for the chaplain. One day he opened a box. It was full of books called Good News for Modern Man. He said to himself, "I'm a modern man. I'll read...