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If I were asked to visit you tomorrow evening, I am sure you would make some preparations for my call—even for one so commonplace as myself. You would prepare, because you would welcome me. If you expected the Queen to call, how excited you would be! What preparation good housewives would make for a…

In the center of my lawn, horseradish will sprout up. After the smallest shower of rain, it rises above the grass and proclaims its vitality. There was a garden there once, and this root maintains its old position. When the gardener cuts it down, it resolves to rise again. Now, if the gardener cannot…

See the sentry pace the rampart. He looks in one direction and he sees the brushwood stirred; he half thinks it is the foe, and suspects an ambush there. He looks to the front, across the sea—does he not discern a sail in the distance? The attack may be from the seaboard. He looks to the right, across…

A child would generally stand on his feet in a gust of wind if he knew it was coming. But when the wind happens to come around a corner furiously, he may be taken off his feet. Mind you are well ballasted by prayer every morning before your vessel puts out to sea, or carrying the quantity of sail you…

Years ago, when they dug into a disused pit in a village, they took up some old rags, and as a consequence nearly all the people in that village died of the plague. They did not know what was in the old rags buried in the pit. So we are afraid of the old rags of sin; we do not like digging them up. Spurgeon,…

I remember talking once to a lady who assured me again and again that she prayed daily for me that I might be kept humble. I told her that I would pray the same prayer for her. When she said, “Oh, I am never tempted to be proud,” I replied, “Well, dear friend, I am afraid you are very far gone in that…

In the long line of portraits of the Doges in the palace at Venice one space is empty, and the semblance of a black curtain remains as a melancholy record of glory forfeited. Found guilty of treason against the state, Marino Falieri was beheaded and his image as far as possible blotted from remembrance.…

Jackie wore the same shirt to her company’s zoom meetings during the pandemic. She knew that someone would say something, but they didn’t—not even when she finally broke down and said something about it herself on her final day of work. No one had noticed. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-hawaiian-shirt-264-times-zoom-meetings_n_60d387f0e4b06005129e14a9…

When Ohio State University student Abdul Razak Ali Artan drove a car onto the sidewalk on the OSU campus he hit multiple pedestrians and later stabbed several more with a knife. Another student, Armand Ghazi said, “He seemed like he was there for one reason—to do as much damage as he could.” What a perfect…

In the first eight months of 2016, 73 people around the world have died while taking “extreme selfies.” The new activity of seeing how you can take pictures of yourself with a smart phone has proved dangerous to many. Most deaths came from people who fell from buildings or mountains while attempting…

Earlier this year in Cape Wrath, Scotland, Mark Elder was dragged off the fishing vessel North Star, pulled underwater and drowned. Although his fellow crewmen watched as he became tangled in a rope and was pulled off the ship, they were unable to locate and rescue him before he succumbed to the cold…

We need to be as diligent as possible when dealing with money. Olesja Schemjakowa received her bank statement and discovered a charge for 7,709.90 Swiss francs for a cup of coffee and a cake. The Russian woman had ordered the snack at a Swiss café and paid for it with her credit card. She discovered…

After all their other efforts failed, National Grid announced they would bring a cannon to scare away hundreds of crows that have been hanging around an electrical substation in Massachusetts. The utility company said they were removing the birds because if one landed on the wrong piece of equipment,…

The United States government has released a new rule that requires hybrid and electric cars to make noise when traveling at low speeds in order to protect pedestrians. The rule is designed to prevent about 2,400 pedestrian injuries a year, by making the nearly silent vehicles more noticeable, especially…

The President signed legislation that provides healthcare for its citizens through the Affordable Care Act. The basic cost of some plans starts from just $1. Yet, with the stroke of his pen, President Obama postponed the application deadline to March 31, 2014, but that was not the final deadline. The…

New research suggests that smartphones are influencing the way people think, even when they are not using them. Adrian Ward of the University of Texas at Austin led a team that conducted experiments to test how smartphones affect the ability to think and function in the world “off-screen” Researchers…

A Kentucky pastor says he gained a new appreciation for God’s care over him after a serious accident in a church van. Pastor Gary Kirby was driving the van with 14 kids inside when a tire blew out. The blow out sent the van across the road and into a ditch. Kirby said no one died in the crash, although…

On the Mediterranean coast of Spain there is an almost finished 700-foot, 47-floor skyscraper. Only two months away from completion architects discovered a small flaw. The elevator only went to the 20th floor and there is no room in the plan for adding an elevator to service the final 17 floors. Some…

After recent revelations about the collection of electronic records regarding American citizens, Russia, which played a role in the revelations, has announced that they will go back to keeping paper records. Russia’s Federal Guard Service has decided to revert to using more typewriters and paper documents.…

Psychiatrist Mark Epstein writing an opinion piece for the Sunday Review of The New York Times reminds us, “Trauma is not just the result of major disasters.” Trauma is a part of ordinary life. “One way or another, death (and its cousins: old age, illness, accidents, separation, and loss) hangs over…

According to news reports, Joshua Tackett, a 29-year-old New Hampshire resident crashed his car in front of his local police headquarters. Police later arrested him on the suspicion of drunk driving. In his mug shot, he is wearing a t-shirt that says, “This guy needs a beer.” While many viewing the picture…

Lenworth “Kip” Williamson made a resolution on January 1, 1989 that he would run every day. Twenty-seven years later Williamson is still running and in May 2016, he marked 10,000 days. Williamson said he was always an outdoor runner and the winter of 1989 was mild, so he decided to keep running. He said…

Former college basketball coach Bobby Knight talks about the importance of preparation. “The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.” Peter reminds us that preparation is important in evangelism as well. We need to prepare so we are ready to share the gospel when…

What are you doing to prepare for the end? A man in Florida used a backhoe to build an underground survival bunker in his yard. He dug it large enough that he could bury a truck and trailer. He told police before they carried him off to jail that he was “preparing for the worst.” There is a day coming…

Kent Broyhill was a student at the University of Nebraska. Like a lot of college students, always trying to find a place to park on a crowded campus, he collected a number of parking tickets. When told the university only accepted cash for the fines, Broyhill promised to return with the bills. Alas,…