E. Stanley Jones, the great Methodist missionary to India, told about a doctor in New York City who wrote a prescription for a very sick man, an emotionally sick individual.

     Antony Flew was a famous atheist who argued for years against the existence of God. He had a change of heart.

     I like the old story about a young preacher who went to the front door of the church to greet people after church every Sunday. Most of the time, the church members were nice and said nice things to him about his sermon. However, this one older lady, always gave him the very same comment. 

Former Senator Bob Dole once commented on a disappointing political defeat by saying, "After hearing the results, I slept like a baby that night. I woke up every two hours and cried." Disappointments can do that to us.

I was recently driving through a construction area on a highway. A construction worker held up a stop sign to stop the traffic.

     Abraham Lincoln told the story of a farmer who was trying to teach his son how to plow a straight furrow. He told the boy to keep his eyes on some object at the other end of the field and to plow straight for it.

A friend gave me a unique gift the other day, a Styrofoam brick that was labeled "Bad Call Brick" - - to have by my side as I watch football games on Sunday afternoon.

I normally don’t mind sitting in a waiting room. The name describes it well. A waiting room. So when I am in one, I try to be prepared to wait.

I have an interesting book in my library that is entitled, “The Seventy Great Journeys in History.”  The book highlights many important journeys, including that of Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong, St. Paul, Hannibal, Lewis and Clark, Christopher Columbus, Lindbergh.  

The history books remind us that in the year 1864, Confederate and Union forces were engaged in a brutal battle at Petersburg, Virginia. When evening came after the first day of battle, cheers could be heard from behind the Confederate lines.  General Grant asked what was causing the commotion.