When I was growing up, I remember the inflatable plastic punching dummy. It was about as tall as I was and had a smiling face painted on it. The challenge…
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Three friends were discussing death, and one asked the group: What would you like people to say about you at your funeral? The first one said he would like people…
Have you ever gone to the Philadelphia Library or some other huge library? You go in and there are rooms and rooms of books. Can you imagine the amount of…
When playing with tools in his father’s workshop at age 3, Louis Braille was struck in the eye by a piece of metal. The injury blinded him, and a subsequent…
Years ago, the noted English agnostic, Thomas Huxley, was in Dublin, Ireland for some speaking engagements. On one occasion, he left his hotel in a hurry to catch a train,…
Before we see where joy is found, we want to see where it is not found. It is not found in unbelief. Voltaire was a well known unbeliever, and he…
In a seminary missions class, Herbert Jackson told how, as a new missionary, he was assigned a car that would not start without a push. After pondering his problem, he…
Let’s suppose you are a kid again in the 4th grade and every day at recess the big 6th grader, who is a bully, threatens you. He even beats you…
Tell a child he can have no cookies because they are for company and somehow his desire and hunger for cookies increases. Some things are more appealing to people when…
American frontiersman and Congressman Davy Crockett was attending an exhibition in Washington. Pointing to one of the monkeys on display, he noted that it resembled a particular member of Congress….