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During the Revolutionary War there lived a Baptist pastor in Ephrata, Pennsylvania named Peter Miller who was a close friend of General Washington. In that same town also lived Michael Wittman, an evil-minded man who did all he could to abuse and oppose this pastor. One day Michael Wittman was caught…

Year ago, on the mighty Mississippi River, two tugboat captains who had been friends for years, would always cry "Aye!" and blow their whistles whenever they passed each other. A new crewman asked his boat’s mate, "What do they do that for?" The mate looked surprised and replied, "You mean that you’ve…

An old Gaelic "blessing:" May those who love us, love us, And those who don’t love us, May God turn their hearts, And if he doesn’t turn their hearts, May he turn their ankles So we’ll know them by their limping. As I pointed out in a TFTD message a couple of weeks ago, we all struggle with our attitude…

In the King James Version of the Bible, the invitation of the two travelers reads, Abide with us; for it is toward evening and the day is far spent (Luke 4:29, KJV), words which were the inspiration for that beloved hymn, "Abide with me/Fast falls the eventide." The hymn was written by Henry Francis…

When I was in the Navy I spent my last couple of years training sailors in various areas like maintenance, alcohol awareness, and integrity. One of the questions I used to ask the men and women in uniform was, “What do we do?” I’d get lots of answers depending upon who I was training, like “We maintain…

In 1913, the Federal government held a fiftieth anniversary reunion at Gettysburg. It lasted three days. Thousands of survivors bivouacked in the old battlefield, swapping stories, looking up comrades. The climax of the gathering was a reenactment of Pickett's Charge. Thousands of spectators gathered…

When I was in the Navy I spent my last couple of years training sailors in various areas like maintenance, alcohol awareness, and integrity. One of the questions I used to ask the men and women in uniform was, “What do we do?” I’d get lots of answers depending upon who I was training, like “We maintain…

Criminologist Wayne Petherick has recorded some fascinating historical details about the science of criminal profiling in its earliest stages. During World War II, for instance, the United States Office of Strategic Services (now the CIA) wanted to know more about Adolf Hitler: What kind of person was…

Enemies, Age In his Sunday sermon, the minister used "Forgive Your Enemies" as his subject. After the sermon, he asked how many were willing to forgive their enemies. About half held up their hands. Not satisfied, he harangued the congregation for another twenty minutes and repeated his question. This…

An old Aesop's Fable titled "The Wasp and the Snake" gives us a clear picture of what sin can do to us if not dealt with and put down by the power of God's Word: A wasp seated himself on the head of a snake and began stinging him unceasingly until the snake was near death. In great torment and not knowing…