"Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." - 2 Timothy 2:3,4What a day it was!The battle lines were drawn.And...
When I was five and visiting my grandmother she took me to an all day gathering of neighbors and friends. She called It a "Quilting Bee." But I quickly realized with all the good food the ladies brought, that it was really a party, and what fun I had! A group of 12-15...
A rat looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. What food might it contain? He was aghast to discover that it was a rat trap. Retreating to the farmyard the rat proclaimed the warning; "There is a rat trap in the house, a rat...
Jewish poet and storyteller Noah ben Shea tells this parable:After dinner, the children turned to Jacob and asked if he would tell them a story. "A story about what?" Asked Jacob."About a giant," squealed the children.Jacob smiled, leaned against the warm stones at...
"I in them and You in Me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that You sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me." John 17:23A story is told about F.B. Meyer, the great Bible teacher and pastor who lived a century ago. He was...
He came into this world chubby, bald, beautiful, and with the bluest eyes I’d ever seen. After a very difficult delivery, he was born perfectly healthy and we all breathed a sigh of relief. We named him Noah and it seemed to fit.The day after Noah was born, the nurse...
When Dr. Paul White was serving in a bush hospital in East Africa, a schoolteacher named Yamusi Cikata came to him, carried on a stretcher from a nearby village. Parasites and disease had attacked his feet, swelling them to twice their normal size. He was no longer...