For 51 years Bob Edens was blind. He couldn’t see a thing. His world was a black hall of sounds and smells. He felt his way through five decades of darkness. And then, he could see. A skilled surgeon performed a complicated operation and, for the first time, Bob Edens had sight. He found it…
There is a story of determination that has inspired me for a long time. One stormy night, Hudson Taylor was scheduled to speak in Birmingham, England, at the Severn Street schoolroom. His hostess attempted to dissuade him from going in the torrential downpour by telling him that everyone would assume it was canceled. “But was…
In 2010 Sandra Bullock won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Leigh Ann Tuohy an otherwise normal mother who became part of an extraordinary story. The Blind Side chronicles a Christian family who took in a homeless young man and gave him the chance to reach his God-given potential and finish his…
There was a very unusual military funeral in California in December of 2013. Sgt. First Class Joseph Gantt, who fought in both World War II and the Korean War, was laid to rest. He had been captured in Korea in 1950 and died the following year. But his body was not returned for many years,…
A toothpaste factory had a problem: they sometimes shipped empty boxes, without the tube inside. This was due to the way the production line was set up, and an easy fix was not to be found. The CEO of the toothpaste factory got the top people in the company together and they decided to hire…
I recently read an article written by a missionary to Africa who shared the story of an elderly woman who was reached with the gospel. Though she was blind and could neither read nor write, she wanted to share her new found faith with others. One day she pulled the missionary aside after the service with…
Here’s a rather useless fact that I find rather interesting. When we write letters we commonly end them with the words “Yours sincerely”. Have you ever wondered why we do this? The practice has its origins in ancient Rome. Roman sculptors often concealed cracks in apparently flawless marble statues with melted beeswax. When the…
There is a tale told of the great English actor Macready. An eminent preacher once said to him: “I wish you would explain to me something.” You are appearing before crowds night after night with fiction, and the crowds come wherever you go. I am preaching the essential and unchangeable truth, and I am not…
I’m sure all of us have daydreamed about what we would do if we suddenly were given a large amount of money we weren’t expecting. Let’s suppose that you suddenly found yourself with an extra $100,000. How would you spend it? Several years ago the editors of USA Today asked that very question The…
Charles Thomas (CT) Studd, was born into a wealthy English family in the latter part of the 19th century, educated at Cambridge and celebrated as one of that nation’s best cricket players, upon coming to Christ left it all behind to become a missionary first to China and later to India and Africa. When his…
