I heard a story once about two wealthy Christians, a lawyer and a merchant, who traveled with a group that was going around the world. As they were visiting in Korea, they saw by the side of the road, a field in which a boy was pulling a crude plow and an old man held...
In the very early 1800's, a young boy about 14 years old named John lived in an orphanage in Old England along with several other children.Orphanages were dreaded. Orphan meant unwanted and unloved. The orphanage was administered by a master and his wife who were...
It had been difficult for her family back in the 1960's. Thus she arranged a part-time job at $20 per night to share her bed with strangers; she would receive enough money to feed her three children. But her world came crashing down on her when she found out she was...
John Gordon was a respected general for the South in the Civil War. After the war, he was running for the United States Senate, but a man who had served under him in the war, angry over some political incident, was determined to see him defeated. Everyone knew this...
John 15:12-17 (NIV) says:"My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know...
A friend sent me the following report: "In California, more than 600 lawyer hopefuls were taking the state bar exams in the Pasadena Convention Centre when a 50-year-old man taking the test suffered a heart attack."Only two of the 600 test takers, John Leslie and...
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. John 3:16During World War II it was the custom in the United States for a family who had a son serving in the military to place a star in the front window of their home. But a gold star indicated that the son...