Twenty-seven hundred years ago, King Ezechia had a real problem because Jerusalem’s water supply was outside the city’s walls. This made the people of Jerusalem very vulnerable to enemy attacks, […]
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As a University student hurried to her two-hour, final exam in chemistry, she encountered one of the campus chaplains. She immediately stopped and said to him, “Will you pray for
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A woman answered her telephone. She hardly had time to say “Hello” when a man’s voice, dripping with repentance, began reciting a lengthy list of regrets: “Darling, I’m so sorry.
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A duck, a rabbit and an eagle enrolled in an animal school which held classes in swimming, running and flying. The duck already was an excellent swimmer, so it went
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There is a very moving story about a plane crash of several years ago in which a small boy was the sole survivor. All of the other passengers were killed
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In Matthew’s account of the Wise Men’s journey to Bethlehem in today’s Gospel, we read: … there in front of them was the star they had seen rising; it went
A few hours before setting out to sea, the captain and the first mate of a large commercial ocean liner had a bitter argument. During the heated conversation, the captain
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Oh my friend, do not have children! You bring them into the world and they send you out of it. You give them life, and they give you your death
It was December 22nd and the mother of several children suddenly realized that she hadn’t sent out any Christmas cards. In dismay, she sent her 10-year-old son to the drugstore
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A woman named Betty tried to cram all of her Christmas preparations into a single day. Starting at 9 a.m., she shopped her entire Christmas list, bought a Christmas tree
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One Sunday morning a certain country preacher opened a sermon on faith with these words: My dear brothers and sisters, your fields are drying up and you have come here
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On his return from a trip into the wilds, a birdwatcher told this story of an encounter with a bear… I was hiking through the woods, he said, and came
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There once was a small iron-working town where the mills were kept running day and night. The great steam-hammers, some of them weighing several tons, were night and day beating
A woman arrived at a prayer meeting which was already in progress … She spotted a vacant chair and asked the man who was sitting next to it, ìIs this
A popular preacher once delivered a sermon entitled ìGodís Ownershipî … Later that day he was invited to the home of a rich parishioner. The wealthy man conducted the preacher
When a new parish church was built in an upper middle class suburb, Sunday mornings in the immediate neighborhood were no longer as quiet as they used to be …
Near the end of his life, the Roman Emperor Severus gave a kind of farewell speech to his countrymen. In it he summed up his life of fame and power
A proud mother wrote, My daughter, Francesca was about four years old when she first became aware that numbers were not just new words in her vocabulary or names for
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There is a ìPeanutsî cartoon in which little Linus is afraid to go to the library … Charlie Brown tries to relieve him of his fears, saying, ìEveryoneís lonely in
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ìDear Lord,î you pray, ìI am at the end of all my resources.î ìDear child,î the Lord answers, ìYouíre just at the beginning of Mine.î Godís resources extend far beyond
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