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According to a June 25, 2002, news story from Reuters, an Alaskan chicken-hypnotist who cycles around the world with a traveling circus won’t be going anywhere for awhile. While she stopped in a charity clothes shop in Scotland and was trying on clothes, the shop attendant sold her bicycle by mistake.
Emily Harris left the $1,800 […]

H. Edwin Young shares the following: “Charles Shultz, in his cartoons, once painted a little picture of Lucy and Linus in their home looking out a window at a thunderstorm. Lucy, in typical candidness, said, ‘I hope it doesn’t rain and rain until the whole world is flooded.’ Linus came back with, ‘Don’t worry. In […]

It took a cheesy title to win the big prize.
The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais by Philip M. Parker won the Diagram Prize, awarded last week by The Bookseller, a UK publication. The annual prize–decided by a public vote–goes to the oddest book title of the past year.
The book is a […]

Responding to a recent survey showing that 15 percent of Americans express no religious connections, James Emery White deals with several key questions in his latest Serious Times commentary: “First, what is happening? In what I consider an overlooked book, Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America, James Turner argues that unbelief […]

An aged farmer and his wife were leaning against the edge of their pig pen when the old woman wistfully recalled the following week would mark their golden wedding anniversary.
“Let’s have a party, Homer,” she suggested. “Let’s kill a pig.”
The farmer scratched his grizzled head.
“Gee, Ethel,” he finally answered, “I don’t see why the pig […]

In an article in Men of Integrity magazine, Gary Richmond shares this story: “The Angola giraffe was giving birth. I stood next to zoo animal keeper, Jack Badal, to watch. She was standing up, and the calf’s front hooves and head were already visible. ‘When is she going to lie down?’ I asked Jack.
“‘She won’t,’ […]

Illustration by Bryan Chapell
An old tale speaks of a man who died and faced the angel Gabriel at heaven’s gates. Said the angel to the man, “Here’s how this works. You need a hundred points to make it into heaven. You tell me all the good things that you have done, and I will give […]

Starting this week we are featuring a new resource for pastors and speakers–illustrations. We hope this can help our readers as well as pastors to better understand and illustrate biblical principles in our sermons.