Results

I read about a farmer and his wife who were driving to town in their pickup truck. The farmer was sitting behind the wheel in silence. His wife was sitting over against the door .. as far from her husband as she could get. After several miles she said, "You know dear, when we were first married we didn't…

Used in "Back to Bethel" sermon

Have you ever considered how much you insult God the Father by rejecting Christ? If you were invited to a feast and you should come to the table and dash down every dish, and throw them on the ground, and trample on them, would not this be an insult? If you were a poor beggar at the door, and a rich…

A holy man was accustomed to carry with him a book that had three leaves in it, but never a word. The first leaf was black, and this showed his sin. The second was red, and this reminded him of the way of cleansing by blood. The third was white to show how clean the Lord can make us. I beg you just now…

Suppose you go to a surgeon because you have some deadly cancer growing upon you. You want to have it removed, and you know there are a great many physicians who will profess to cure such things, but in reality only give temporary ease. You keep clear from all these. You are well aware that if only a…

Archeological thieves are having changes of heart. An anonymous woman mailed a piece of marble back to Rome’s National Roman Museum. She apologized for being an ugly American and taking it from an ancient site in the city. Thieves also returned archeological items to the Egyptian embassy in Berlin, to…

Danny Holmes is guilty of robbery, kidnapping, murder, and a few other crimes. He has been in jail for a while now; he committed the crimes in 2016. One day recently he looked at a notebook on which he’d written the lyrics to the song “Redeemed” by Big Daddy Weave. The words were, “Then you look at this…

In November 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released a formal apology for his country’s actions in WWII. A ship carrying German Jews sought safe haven in Canada but was rejected. It had no other choice but to return to Europe resulting in the death of over 250 of those passengers. Expressing…

The Greyhound Express bus from Cleveland to New York City left the station three hours late. Passengers awoke seven hours later to find themselves in Toledo, 114 miles from Cleveland, the opposite direction from New York. The bus had some mechanical problems and dispatch told the driver to return to…

Aerospace Corporation based in El Segundo, California has received additional funding to pursue a project that could make space travel safer in the future. The company designed the Brane Craft, a small flexible spacecraft that can retrieve space debris and drop it into the atmosphere to burn up. The…

Before I came to London, a man met me one Sunday in a dreadful state of rage. He vowed he would horsewhip me for bullying him from the pulpit. What had I said? I asked. “What have you said? You looked me in the face and said, “What more can God do for you? Shall he give you a good wife? You have had…

How many things there are in the world, which we have upon our tables and which we even eat, that if we were to put beneath our microscope we should be afraid to touch! For we should see all kinds of loathsome creatures creeping and crawling about in them—such things as we never conceived! And so it…

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…

Singer, Chrissie Hynde, enjoyed the ultimate rock ‘n’ roll existence. She spent some of her early years on top of the music polls with the Pretenders. She lived the wild lifestyle with other rockers. When asked if she would do it all again she replied, “Definitely not.” She said, “I would get rid of…

While America was celebrating its bicentennial in 1976, someone stole a special American flag from the Weston Observatory in Manchester, New Hampshire. The flag was hanging while the observatory was undergoing repairs, and an unknown person climbed up some scaffolding and took it. Many local citizens…

New York Yankee fallen super star Alex Rodriguez is returning to baseball after a yearlong suspension, the longest ever given to an active player for drug use. As he prepares to begin spring training for his comeback year he has issued an apology to the Yankees, their owners, the Players Association…

Police in Northern California say a man robbed a local gas station and then returned a few hours later to return the money he had taken. Authorities say 23-year-old Cyle Abbott Jr. told officers that he took the money because he wanted to leave town and make a fresh start. Later, when he thought about…

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 Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to serve a year’s probation for crimes his defense attorney says he doesn’t remember. His attorney says 23-year-old Christian Eshenbaugh suffered a brain injury in a car accident and has become a “completely different person.” Eshenbaugh pleaded guilty to charges…

A water bill sent out in 1969 was finally returned to the sender, nearly 46 years later. The bill, totaling $1.40 was sent out by the Brunswick and Topsham Water District to a resident of Topsham in October 1969. When it arrived, the customer’s post box had been closed, so the bill should have automatically…

Like the prodigal son, KC decided to take what was his and go to the far country. The 14-year-old dog got loose from his owner while on a walk outside their suburban Detroit home. When he came to his senses he was far from home on out on the ice of Lake St. Clair, 4 miles from shore. Discovered and rescued…

Pastor Eric Dammann, recently used a personal illustration to demonstrate that God can even use a person’s mistakes by telling about an event more than a dozen years ago when he was a youth worker. He punched a smart alec teenager in the chest, knocking him to the ground. He then said to the child he’d…

The courts convicted Cornealious Anderson of armed robbery and sentenced him to thirteen years in prison in 2000. The day he was sentenced, Anderson was told to wait for instructions on when and where to report to prison. When those instructions never came, Anderson went on with life and actually turned…

If a person wants to reject God, their mind isn’t changed no matter the circumstances. Mark Brandon Reed, an Australian criminal is thought to have killed as many as 19 people. He disputes the number but not the accusation. Last month doctors diagnosed him with liver cancer and he has but a few months…

The Pope has a message for the Mafia. “Men and women of the Mafia, please change your lives,” he said. This was a warning to the mobsters that they could not take their “bloody money and blood power” to the afterlife. It is a good reminder to each of us as well that we cannot expect to see the afterlife…