You've heard the question asked, "If your home were on fire, what you try to save?" Most people answer that they would rescue people and pets and as many photographs and memories as possible.The question we are facing is similar. We are forced to consider, "If we have...
"A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath." - Job 20:28In 1988, William "Buddy" Post of Oil City, Pennsylvania, won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania Lottery. The jackpot was to be paid to Buddy over a period of twenty-five years....
Exhaustion had taken its toll and there I stood with tears streaming down my cheeks, barely able to mouth the words to explain my despair. It was gone. A one hundred dollar bill I had stuffed into the kangaroo pocket of my pullover sweatshirt had fallen out and I...
Attending a game show wasn't your idea of a vacation activity, but your kids wanted to go, so you gave in. Now that you're here, you are beginning to enjoy it. The studio frenzy is contagious. The music is upbeat. The stage is colorful. And the stakes are high."Higher...
There is a story of a wealthy man named Karl who loved to ride his horse over his vast estate and congratulate himself on his good fortune. On one such ride, he came across an old tenant farmer named Hans. Hans had just stopped to eat his lunch in the shade of a great...
"I was confronted with a knee surgery two years back when I was out with some of my friends late in the night drinking. I was totally drunk and riding to get more liquor when I crashed up and saw my left leg broken into pieces.The bottom half of my leg was still there...
Several months ago when I was seated on the bus at the terminal and going home from work, a woman showed a kindness that up to now I cannot forget.The bus was still not full. I sat on the third row, by the window, on the driver's side. It was nearly six p.m. but the...