Dr. Paul Brand was speaking to a medical college in India on Matthew 5:16: “Let your
light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your
Father which is in heaven.” In front of the lectern was an oil lamp, with...
A park ranger at Yellowstone National Park was leading a
group of hikers to a fire lookout. The ranger was so intent on telling the
hikers about the flowers and animals that he considered the messages on his
two-way radio distracting, so he...
The story is told about a little boy who was flying a kite. It was a windy day, and the kite kept going higher and higher. Finally it got so high that it was out of sight. A man passed by and saw the little boy holding onto the string. The man...
When D.L. Moody was just starting in the ministry, he heard
a preacher make this statement, “the world has yet to see what God can do with
one man fully surrendered to Him.” Moody that night said, “By God’s grace, I’ll
be that man!”
Speaking
to a large audience, D.L. Moody held up a glass and asked, “How can I get the
air out of this glass?” One man shouted, “Suck it out with a pump!” Moody
replied, “That would create a vacuum and shatter the glass.” After numerous
other...
A young missionary, Herbert Jackson, was given a car to help
him in his work. The car was a major asset, but it had one difficulty—it
would not start without a push or a jump-start. Jackson devised a system to
cope with the car’s inability to...
“Before refrigerators, people used icehouses to
preserve their food. Icehouses had thick walls, no windows and a tightly fitted
door. In winter, when streams and lakes were frozen, large blocks of ice were
cut, hauled to the icehouses and covered...
A father and son arrived in a small western
town looking for an uncle whom they had never seen Suddenly, the father,
pointing across the square to a man who was walking away from them, exclaimed,
“There goes my uncle!”
During a tour of a
large manufacturing plant, a visitor noticed a man using a fiery torch of high
intensity to work on huge slabs of steel. Operating from a blueprint on a
nearby table, a pointer traced the pattern and then by a clever system of...
A twelve-year-old boy was saved at
a revival. Later, his friends questioned him about it. One said, “Did you see a vision?” Another said, “Did you hear God speak?” The boy answered all of these questions with a simple no.