Erma Bombeck wrote in her best-selling book, "If Life Is A Bowl Of Cherries, What Am I Doing Here In The Pits", about two special moments in her husband's life. There…

A terrible destruction wiped out the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79.  The explosion of Mount Vesuvius was so sudden, the residents were killed while in their daily…

A man was packing a shipment of food for the poor people of Appalachia.  He was separating beans from powdered milk, and canned vegetables from canned meats. Reaching into a…

Daniel Defoe gave us some great advice through his fictitious character Robinson Crusoe.  The first thing that Crusoe did when he found himself on a deserted island was to make…

Here is a list of Jesus' criticisms about the religious and political leaders of his day: They did not practice what they taught others   (Hypocrisy).They put heavy burdens on others but not on themselves    (Legalism).They…

An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life..."A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two…

There was a teacher who asked her students one day, "If all the bad children were painted red and all the good children were painted green, which color would YOU be?"…

There was an amusing story about a Japanese woman who was recounting a meeting with a man whom she abruptly described as using the English word "jerk." The person writing the…

In her book The Preaching Life, Barbara Brown Taylor tells of a conversation she had with a friend of hers who grew up on a sheep farm in the Midwest.  According…

Sister Mary Jo Leddy in her book, Memories of War, Promises of Peace, writes about her parents' World War II experiences.  Her father, Jack Leddy, was a surgeon in the Allied…