John D. Rockefeller was the American industrialist who built the great Standard Oil Empire. Not surprisingly, Rockefeller was a man who demanded high performance from his executives. One day, one of those executives made a two million dollar mistake. Word of the man’s enormous error quickly spread throughout the executive offices, and the other men […]
Voice of the Martyrs, an organization that tracks Christian martyrdom and offers support to the families left behind, tells us that more Christians are being martyred today than at any other time in earth’s history. The most frequent persecution of Christians occurs in Muslim and Communist countries. Sixteen-year-old Evelyn Abel lives in northern Nigeria. When […]
The autobiography of G. Stanley Jones is titled A Song of Ascent, and it’s considered to be a spiritual classic. Jones was a great man: a missionary to India, a friend to Gandhi, a tireless world traveler, and a great writer and speaker. Now, what is amazing to me is that this book was actually […]
This Christmas, I’m reminded of a story that was one of my late wife Gayle’s favorites to tell. It is a story we’ve shared with friends and loved ones through the years. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. It was going to be the best Christmas ever! I was six years […]
An email was sent to me by a family member. I am constantly on the lookout for stories to use for sermon illustrations and I anticipated this would be another inspiring story to add to my collection. The title was “A Sweet Story”. I was not prepared for the content, to say the least. ———————- […]
In 1981, a rather prophetic lecture was given at the University of Notre Dame that predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union. The lecturer called Communism “a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.” A year later the same speaker told the British House of Commons that the […]
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