The hymnwriter Fanny Crosby gave us more than 6,000 gospel songs. Although blinded by an illness at the age of six weeks, she never became bitter. One time a preacher sympathetically remarked, “I think it is great pity that the Master did not give you sight when He showered so […]
As jy in Derde Laan afry, sal heelwat huise jou oog vang, maar daar is veral een wat uitstaan. Die klein huisie met die pragtige roostuin en die groot populierboom. Dit is hier waar Theo, ‘n tiener, en sy pa gebly het. Hulle het alleen daar gebly, want sy ma
In 1855, a Sunday School teacher named Kimbell, led a 19-year old shoe clerk to Jesus Christ. He in turn became a Sunday School teacher leading other youth to Christ. Later he became a world renowned evangelist. His name — Dwight L. Moody. He led hundreds of thousands to Christ
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There was once a not-too-well educated and rather rough man, who, after his conversion, began pestering his minister to give him something to do. He just wanted to work for the Lord. In desperation the minister gave him a list of ten names saying, “These are people whose names are
One day, there was a blind man sitting on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet and a sign that read: “I am blind, please help.” A creative publicist was walking by and stopped to observe. He saw that the blind man had only a few
Toe die ou koning sterf, het sy windlawaai–seun by om oorgeneem.
Hy het besluit dat sy pa se ou raadgewers en amptenare nie by sy regeerstyl pas nie. Hy het die staatsekretaris, tesourier en verskillende ouer adviseurs ondervra en bevind dat hulle onwaardig is om vir hom te werk. Hulle is summier afgedank en verban.
Die volgende persoon op sy agenda was die biskop. Die nuwe koning het sy bedenkings gehad of die biskop wys genoeg was om die kerk te lei. Hy het ’n boodskapper met ’n brief na die biskop se huis gestuur:
“U moet oor drie dae na my paleis kom en die volgende drie vrae beantwoord:
In watter rigting kyk God?
Wat is ek werd?
Wat dink ek?
As jy hierdie drie vrae nie korrek kan beantwoord nie, word jy uit my koninkryk verban.”
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An Arab Chief tells the story of a spy who had been captured and sentenced to death by a general of the Persian army. The general had fallen upon a strange custom. He permitted the condemned person to make a choice. He could either face a firing squad or pass
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A speaker (Dr. Wan) has once shared his experience:
While his family and he were in
His little daughter has never traveled at night before. She was scared the first night in the car, with deep darkness outside.
“Where are we going, Daddy?” “To your uncle’s house, in Germany.”
“Have you been to his house before?” “No.”
“Then, do you know the way?” “Maybe, we can read the map.”
Back when the telegraph was the was the fastest method of long-distance communication, a young man applied for a job as a Morse Code operator. Answering an ad in the newspaper, he went to the office address that was listed. When he arrived, he entered a large, busy office filled with noise and clatter, including the sound of the telegraph in the background. A sign on the receptionist’s counter instructed job applicants to fill out a form and wait until they were summoned to enter the inner office.
The young man filled out his form and sat down with the seven other applicants in the waiting area. After a few minutes, the young man stood up, crossed the room to the door of the inner office, and walked right in. Naturally the other applicants perked up, wondering what was going on. They muttered among themselves that they hadn’t heard any summons yet. They assumed that the young man who went into the office made a mistake and would be disqualified.
Within a few minutes, however, the employer escorted the young man out of the office and said to the other applicants, “Gentlemen, thank you very much for coming, but the job has just been filled.”
In die museum van Zermatt in Switserland word n gebreekte tou uitgestal.
Dit lyk stewig en sterk maar dit het op n kritieke oomblik gebreek. Hier is die verhaal agter daardie tou.
Edward se ideaal was om die duiselingwekkende hoogtes van die beroemde Matterhorn, n piek in die Alpe, tot bo te klim.
Saam met n groepie bekwame bergklimmers het hy op n dag die taak aangepak.
Die geselskap het bestaan uit vier klimmers en drie gidse. Twee van die drie leiers was broers.
Alles het voorspoedig verloop tot bo op die spits van die duiselingwekkende hoë
