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Suppose you had been a pig all your life, and that you were suddenly made into a man. Well, now you are a man, you look through a telescope; swine cannot do that. You look through a microscope; I never knew a pig do that in my life. Swine do not talk, but you speak, you sing, you pray, you are quite…

Many dear children are called by God so early that they cannot precisely tell when they were converted. But they were converted; they must at some time or other have passed from death to life. You could not have told this morning, by observation, the moment when the sun rose, but it did rise. There was…

The law ceases its office as pedagogue when it comes to be written on our hearts. Boys have their lessons on slates, but men have their laws in their minds. We trust a man where we would carefully watch a boy. When the child becomes a man, his father and mother do not write down little rules for him,…

There lived some few years ago in Perugia, in Italy, a man of the loosest morals and the worst conceivable disposition. He had given up all religion, he loathed God, and had arrived at such a desperate state of mind that he had conceived an affection for the devil, and endeavored to worship the evil…

If Niagara could suddenly be made to leap upward instead of forever dashing downward from its rocky height, it would not be such a miracle as to change the perverse will and the raging passions of men. To wash the Ethiopian white, or remove the leopard’s spots, is proverbially a difficulty, yet these…

Some men tell the tale of their past lives as if it really was very grand and very creditable to them to have done such abominable things. A man gets up in a meeting and says, “My dear friends, I have done that which, if it had been known, would have brought me to the gallows.” “Then sit down,” says…

Go into a telegraph office at any time, and you will see certain needles moving right and left with unceasing click. Electricity is a great mystery, and you cannot see or feel it, but the operator tells you that the electric current is moving along the wire. How does he know? “I know it by the needle.”…

When the Moravian missionaries first went to Greenland, they were months and months teaching the poor Greenlander about the Godhead, the doctrine of the Trinity, and the doctrine of sin and the law, and no converts were forthcoming. But one day, by accident, one of the Greenlanders happened to read that…

You have heard a lot about Foxhole conversions. A soldier hunkering down in a hole while the battle is ongoing, makes a promise to walk with God if God will get him out of the situation. Bill Patten’s conversion wasn’t made deep in the earth, but high in the sky. Bill was co-piloting a B17 bomber over…

Good news for Facebook users. Developers have added a feature that allows a user to to get rid of bad memories, at least online. The feature allows a person to automatically block posts from their ex spouses. In addition, they can remove photos of former couples in happier times. God does more than delete…

On November 11, 2016, many users logged onto Facebook only to find out they were dead. A message at the top of their Facebook page read, “We hope people who love [insert name here] will find comfort in things others share to remember and celebrate [his/her] life.” Some users went to twitter to show that…

Billy Joe Shaver wrote country music for the superstars, including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Elvis Presley, and Willie Nelson. All was not well with Billy Joe though. For years he struggled with his addiction to drugs and alcohols. By his own testimony, that addiction ended after he found Jesus Christ.…

Diane De Han watched an Oregon court sentence the man who killed her son to prison, and was prepared to hate him or seek revenge. Instead, when she saw the 21-year-old man in court with no one to support him, and heard his confession, her heart went out to him. Within two weeks, De Han wrote the man…

Kanye West is among those who want to be frozen after death so he can be thawed in the future when regenerative advances will allow him to live again. The Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona will keep his corpse on ice for $233,000 dollars. The interesting thing here is his stated…

A young woman entered Heartbeat of Miami Pregnancy Help Medical Clinic seeking help with an unwanted pregnancy. She was having an ultrasound done when she saw the little flutter of the heartbeat and then she heard it. She asked, “Is that, like, my heartbeat?” Lourdes McMinns, the Clinic supervisor said,…

A fresh start begins with repentance. Cyle Abbott held up a gas station so he could use the cash to get a “fresh start” in another town. A few hours later, he returned to the gas station and returned the cash he hadn’t already spent and apologized for robbing the store.—Jim L. Wilson http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/police-regretful-california-robber-returns-cash-26469705…

A Russian man who was declared dead after he drank too much vodka at a party woke up to find himself in a morgue. A police spokesman said the man screamed when he regained consciousness in the mortuary freezer attracting the attention of staff. After he was released he quickly returned to the party,…

Joel Sweeney of River Falls, Wisconsin had a drinking problem. He has eight drunk-driving infractions. He was in near death accidents three times. After spending three years in jail he decided to get sober. Since 2013 he has been the town’s designated driver. He gives free rides to people as they leave…

Debbie Steele says, “God wants to reconcile all people to Himself. The gospel invitation is not conversion to heterosexuality but conversion to Jesus Christ.” —Jim L. Wilson Ministry in the New Marriage Culture, 152. Mark 16:16 (HCSB) Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not…

A death simulator called Xinglai is open in China. When you “die,” you lay down on a conveyer belt through a dark tunnel that simulates cremation and then being “reborn” out the other side through a latex womb. The experience “gives you the chance to calm down, give in to some deeper thoughts, and think…

Researchers in China found that people who eat a diet rich in spicy foods such as curry and fresh chili pepper can reduce their chances of premature death by up to 14 percent. Researchers examining the diets of almost 500,000 people in China over seven years recorded that those who ate spicy foods one…

Most of the current movie and television hits are reruns or sequels of previous hits. Harry Potter on Broadway, Star Wars, Wonder Woman, and Avengers are all reboots or follow-ons at the movies. Television hits are Roseanne and Lost in Space from years ago. Why are all the new shows throw-backs? The…

Despite going through two years of hardship, a church in Cape Cod Massachusetts has plans to rebuild after an arsonist burned their old building to the ground. The church broke ground on a new and larger building exactly two years after the old building was destroyed. Pastor Myron Heckman told a local…

Actor Dean Jones’ career began with some gritty roles, cast as drug addicts, pimps, and killers. After Jones starred in a hit Broadway play, Walt Disney cast him in some more wholesome roles. Jones said that at that time his image on screen and his real life became increasingly disconnected. He was womanizing…

When Kim Phuc Phan Thai was a 9-year-old child her war planes dropped bombs and napalm on her village in Vietnam. A journalist snapped a picture of the girl, naked, running from the village, screaming in pain from the napalm burning her neck, back, and arms. You have probably seen the photo. It became…