How many ants did you step on or drive over on your way to church today?  Don’t know?  How many will you step on or drive over in your lifetime?  A million?  A billion, maybe?  Here’s another question–Do you care?  Were you on your way to church trying to avoid every ant, as well as every other insect, agonizing over every one that you...

Imagine this being printed in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:  “Local Church Cancels Offerings—A new mission congregation in Waukesha says it has received too much in offerings from its members to build their first church building, so the members have been told by church leaders to stop giving.  When asked about this, the pastor said, ‘We just didn’t have...

I once heard an interesting story about a man who was on trial for murder. It was an open and shut case—he was guilty, and everyone knew it, including his own lawyer, but the body was never found. So in his closing statement, his lawyer came up with a desperate plan.  He said:  “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I have a surprise for you all.  Within one...

Why do people climb mountains?  Probably the best answer to that question was stated by George Mallory, a British mountaineer who joined the first three attempts to climb Mt. Everest in the 1920s.  When asked why he wanted to climb Mt. Everest, the tallest peak in the world at over 29,000 feet, he replied, “Because it’s there.”  What a great response! ...

For those of you who own a dog that’s been cooped up too long this winter, the following story that a woman shared in a recent magazine (Kari Myers in HomeTouch, October 17, 2010) might hit close to home.  When this woman gives her dog a bone, the dog searches throughout the entire house for the perfect spot to bury it, and then starts to dig a hole there.  Of...

A recent edition of Divinity magazine tells the terrifying story of what happened in Uganda in 1996.  Rebel troops abducted 30 girls from a Catholic boarding school.  The parents of the girls met weekly to pray for their daughters’ release.  Yet at least one of the parents, named Angelina, admitted, “I was confused, bitter and very deep in my heart I was...