As a student, I participated in a job experience program for a few weeks at a local newspaper office. One evening, I took the stairs to the building lobby instead of the elevator, but found as the heavy door latched behind me, it would not reopen. With mounting...
Henry L. Mencken said it first: "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." Several 7-Eleven stores learned the truth of that statement. According to a NEW YORK TIMES article, a number of the convenience stores had a problem with...
Both boys seemed too old for this historical merry-go round. It was originally constructed for the European show circuit, with classic artwork that had been painstakingly restored. But they insisted. Their tickets were purchased, the queue joined, and before long it...
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Romans 7:19Several years ago, the London Transit Authority had a problem.Customers were complaining their bus wasn't stopping to pick them up. When they were questioned, the...
"Don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?" (Romans 6:3, NIV2)Unlike any other religions, we Christians believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus, the Christ. And when we decide to publically proclaim that we...
A man was telling his friend that he and his wife had had a serious argument the night before."But it ended," he said, "when she came crawling to me on her hands and knees.""What did she say?" Asked the friend.The husband replied, "She said, 'Come out from under that...
"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord . . ." (2 Tim 1:7-8 NIV)Rising above adversity is humanly impossible, unless we have our eyes fixed on the One who...