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Let your petitions be large. Imitate the example of Alexander’s courtier, who when he was told he might have whatever he chose to ask as a reward for his valor, asked a sum of money so large that Alexander’s treasurer refused to pay it until he had first seen the monarch. When he saw the monarch, he…

In The Pilgrim’s Progress, as Christian was going along the exceedingly narrow pathway with a deep ditch on one side and a dangerous quagmire upon the other, he came to a stand. He had half a thought to go back, and then again he thought he might be halfway through the valley, so he resolved to go on.…

If this glory is to be had, do we not feel like the heroes in Bunyan’s picture? Before the dreamer there stood a fair palace, and he saw persons walking upon the top of it, clad in light and singing. Around the door stood armed men to keep back those who would enter. Then a brave man came up to one who…

Have you never seen a canvas upon which the hand of the painter has sketched with daring pencil some marvelous scene of grandeur? You see where the living color has been laid on with an almost superhuman skill. But the artist was suddenly struck dead, and the hand that worked miracles of art was palsied…

On some of the old bricks of Egypt and of Babylon there has been found the mark of a dog’s foot. When the brick was made, while it was left to dry, the creature passed over it and left the imprint of its foot upon it. Now, thousands of years afterwards, when we pull down the wall we find the dog-mark.…

2020 will long be remembered as the year that there were 1.7 million worldwide deaths due to COVID-19. Amid this horrible statistic there are a couple of medical bright spots worth noting. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the last Ebola patient was discharged. The Ebola virus is the second most deadly…

Paul David Tripp’s life changed big time in 2014. He went into a hospital for a checkup but ended up hospitalized with kidney failure. Over the next few months, he endured six surgeries and lived with excruciating pain and perpetual fatigue. Out of the experienced he shared his experience and offers…

Ashwag Hajihamid is a young Yazidi woman who was abducted by ISIS and sold into slavery in Iraq back in 2014. She escaped Iraq and fled to Germany. All was well until one day in Germany when she encountered the man that had enslaved her. “I ran away from Iraq so I would not see that ugly face and forget…

Twenty-two year old Niels Jenson encountered a 15’ crocodile in a wildlife park in Northern Australia, but didn’t run away. Instead, he waited for the reptile to finish eating and straddled the animal so he could get a photo riding the crocodile. —Jim L. Wilson https://news.sky.com/story/reckless-tourist-filmed-sitting-on-5m-long-crocodile-in-australia-11508454…

Dylan McWilliams has survived a rattlesnake bite in Utah, a black bear mauling in Colorado, and a shark attack near Kauai. What are the odds? While three deadly encounters are rare, there is one that you can count on. Satan is always poised to attack followers of Jesus Christ and we must be alert. —Jim…

Rugby player Scott Baldwin missed the match between the Ospreys and the Cheetahs after being bitten by a Lion. While the Ospreys and Cheetahs are team mascots, the Lion wasn’t. As it turns out, Baldwin stuck his hand through a fence at a game park in South Africa in an attempt to pet the animal. The…

A Florida woman said that her high school ring keeps coming back to her every time it gets lost. Shannon Forester lost her ring the first time after a car accident in 1979. Her father found it a few months later in a pawn shop and bought it back for her. The second time Forester lost her ring; it turned…

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…

A mission in Mississippi helps people who have seen better days by teaching them to work on motorcycles owned by people who have also fallen on hard times. The Mission at the Cross houses 25 men at a time. Daily activities include mentoring and other programs to build character and develop new skills.…

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…

Have you ever had a dream where you are free-falling, only to wake up in bed? Ryan Campbell, wasn’t dreaming when he fell down a 60-foot cliff in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky, but he was sleeping. He is OK, suffering only minor injuries. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/10/us-usa-kentucky-fall-idUSKBN0H52HP20140910…

11-year old Gloria Johnson of Chatham, Michigan says she saw a spider crawling out of a bag of grapes she was washing in the sink. Her 3-year old sister had already eaten some of the grapes, but was unharmed. A crawling spider is one thing, a roaring lion another—We must remain on the alert, because…

Kristopher Wenberg, says he didn’t hear the train approaching as the conductor hit the brakes and blew the horn—he couldn’t hear because of the music playing through his headphones. Unfortunately, Wenberg was at the wrong place at the wrong time—he was walking down a railroad train track when he was…

E-commerce makes passwords necessary to prevent identity theft. Since there are hackers lurking to crack user’s passwords and steal their resources you would think that internet users would be alert to the dangers. But that isn’t the case. The top 2012 passwords are the same three from a year ago - "password,"…

A three-year-old British toddler was doing something as harmless as hunting Easter eggs in Somersett, England. He found a brown one but was having some trouble getting it in his basket. When the adults examined his egg they discovered he had found an unexploded hand grenade from WW II. An army bomb squad…

Stress is • Normal part of life • Caused by change Stress is a never-ending condition of life caused by change, wrong beliefs, and/or unsolicited events—and all of them demand adjustment in life (of some sort) Stress from the outside • Stress is unavoidable • We always have choices on how we respond…

For fifteen years Mark Souder served as one of the congressmen from the state of Indiana. He was one of the conservative republicans who came into office during the off year “shellacking” that the Democrats suffered, not in 2010, but in 1994. He was known as a staunch conservative, especially on the…

And his strategy is often deception: He deceives us, tempts us, then accuses us. Neil Anderson wrote a very frank book on this back in the ‘90's entitled The Bondage Breaker. He deals at length with numerous experiences he had in helping people overcome Satanic attack. One of the chapters in the book…

A police officer in a native settlement in northern Canada told this story. One day a rabid wolf came into the camp. Eventually, the police officer killed the wolf, but he was not able to do so before it attacked a young man and his Grandmother . . . in their home, making kindling out of a chair the…

Ok, I know that picture may give you the “willies.” It sure does give them to me! This is an Anaconda and, according to National Geographic, these snakes can grow to a weight of 550 pounds! Wow! Now you know why I’m not ready to go on the mission trip down the Amazon! Someone in the Peace Corps once…