What a day. Someone criticized me for trying to help a lady in need. His words stung like daggers in an open wound, ripping through my soul, grinding into dust what tiny bit of self-confidence I might have possessed. I was angry, I was hurt, and as the day progressed,...
God has many ways of communicating with me. Sometimes He sends me dreams, and other times He impresses messages upon my mind. He often speaks to me through His word, and once in awhile, He uses my children!This particular day, I had been given a task to do. I had gone...
I have read that when Leonardo de Vinci was forty-three years old, the Duke Ludovinco of Milan asked him to paint the dramatic scene of Jesus' last supper with his disciples.Working slowly and giving meticulous care to details, he spent three years on the assignment....
A small boy once approached his slightly older sister with a question about God. "Susie, can anybody ever really see God?" He asked.Busy with other things, Susie curtly replied: "No, of course not silly. God is so far up in heaven that nobody can see him."Time passed,...
"Though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again." – King Solomon (Proverbs 24:16, NIV)In his book, "Peak Performers," Dr. Charles Garfield describes how the astronauts keep their spacecraft on course. "On their flights between earth and the moon, it was...
Liu Chi Kung placed second to Van Cliburn in the 1958 Tchaikovsky competition. A year later, he was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution in China. During his seven- ear captivity, he didn't have access to a piano of any kind. Very soon after his release, he was...
A new missionary recruit went to Venezuela for the first time. He was struggling with the language and didn't understand a whole lot of what was going on. Intending to visit one of the local churches, he got lost, but eventually got back on track and found the place....