A bell buoy rings only during storms. The beating of the waves and wind bring out the music that is...
In the ancient times, a box on the ear given by
a master to a slave meant liberty, little would the...
In 1799, Conrad Reed discovered a seventeen-pound rock while fishing in
Little Meadow Creek. Not...
Maria Dyer was born in 1837 on the mission field in China where
her parents were pioneer...
When he was appointed as the pastor a church in Cambridge,
England, in 1783 Charles Simeon was...
In May of 2001, Erik Weihenmayer accomplished something that
only about 150 people per year do—...
In April of 2007 Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech
University, went on a rampage. By the...
William Booth was greatly stirred by the needs of the poor of
London, and realized that most...
“Faith
for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly
delivered or not,...
David Livingstone was a Scottish missionary and explorer who
spent thirty-three years in the heart...
A missionary couple once brought some African pastors to the
Unites States for a big meeting....
In 1555, as part of her
campaign to re-establish the Catholic Church in England, Queen Mary, also...
On January 12, 2010, a powerful earthquake devastated Haiti and left the
country in shambles. Few...
“I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year
to a great bundle of...
George Truett was a tremendously effective pastor for decades in
Texas. His heart was broken when...
Gold is one of the most valuable materials on earth. It has been
used for centuries as money, but...
In the 1800s, a group
of women met to study the Bible in Dublin. They were puzzled by the words of...
There was a fellow who was
about to jump from a bridge. An alert police officer slowly and...
At the one-hundredth anniversary of the arrival of missionaries in Zaire, Christians
gathered to...
Massena, one of Napoleon’s
generals, suddenly appeared with eighteen thousand men before an...
