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Michael Phelps is a retired American swimmer who holds the record for the most Olympics medals won by any athlete at 28, including 23 gold medals and 13 individual gold metals. Phelps competed in his first Olympics at the age of 15, as part of the U.S. men's swim team. He was the first American male…

Do you ever get discouraged because you are not seeing the fruit of your efforts? Then the Winans, has a response for you in their song, “For We May Never Know,” with a message of working, believing and preaching through discouragement.-- Jim L. Wilson and Marla Harper -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UweskUxefYM…

A group of tourists spent hours on a Saturday night looking for a missing woman near Iceland's Eldgja canyon. The group was travelling through Iceland on a tour bus and stopped near the volcanic canyon in the southern highlands Saturday afternoon. One of the women on the bus left to change her clothes…

Service 626 The folklore surrounding Poland’s famous concert pianist and prime minister, Ignace Paderewski, includes this story: A mother, wishing to encourage her young son’s progress at the piano, bought tickets for a Paderewski performance. When the night arrived, they found their seats near the front…

An old Scotsman operated a little rowboat for transporting passengers. One day a passenger noticed that the good old man had carved on one oar the word “Faith,” and on the other oar the word “Works.” Curiosity led him to ask the meaning of this. The old man, being a well-balanced Christian and glad of…

There are a number of gripping scenes in the movie Saving Private Ryan that stay with you a long time after seeing it. One of those scenes comes near the end of the movie. Captain John Miller and his squad were on a mission to save Private James Francis Ryan. They were to bring him back home safely because…

The Lifesaving Rope For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:8-10 Show…

GOOD WORKS, THE PURPOSE OF I. GOOD WORKS PROVE. Well, we do love good works. Do you ask, of what use are they? I reply, first: Good works are useful as evidences of grace. . . . Do you see yonder clock? That is the evidence of the time of day. The hour would be precisely the same if we had not that evidence.…

In his book 40 Days, Alton Gansky relates this story: "Harry Houdini made a name for himself by escaping from every imaginable confinement -- from straightjackets to multiple pairs of handcuffs clamped to his arms. He boasted that no jail cell could hold him. Time and again, he would be locked in a cell…

"Although we are sure that men are not saved fo rthe sake of thier works, yet we are equally sure that no man will be saved without them." True faith is manifest only in obedience.

A woman was going away to pick up some friends and return with them for her children to go out to dinner. She had left her children at home with the instructions that they were to be clean and dressed by the time she returned. She said to the children upon leaving, "Now here is plenty of soap and water…

Martin Luther is reported to have said that the most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God. You couldn't make an omelet out of five good eggs and one rotten egg and expect…

ILLUSTRATION: Grace, Salvation David Jeremiah points out that in the 1980s, the Smith-Barney brokerage firm made a series of commercials in which distinguished actor John Houseman spoke the famous line, "We make money the old-fashioned way. We earn it!" Sometime later, based on that commercial, a Christian…

Teens confused about how to get to heaven A recent LifeWay Research survey of American teens shows that most believe in heaven but have mixed views about how to get there. According to a May 23 Baptist Press story: Results show that 69 percent of teens believe heaven exists. Also, a majority strongly…