ROMANS 16 Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. Wilson led his country into World War I and became the creator and leading advocate of the League of Nations, for which he was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize for Peace. … [Read more…]
PHILIPPIANS 3:20 Outside the Shibuya train station in Tokyo is a statue in memory of an Akita dog named Hachiko. Hachiko was born in 1923. In 1924, Hidesaburo Ueno, a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University, brought him to live in Shibuya, Tokyo, as his pet. Hachiko was very loyal to his master. He followed … [Read more…]
GENESIS 2:18 There is a growing “rent-a-family” industry in many countries today. People who are short on relatives can hire a husband, a mother, a grandson, etc. Some hire actors to impersonate estranged relatives, so that they can feel, if briefly, a familial connection they long for. This trend reflects a basic truth: Humans are created … [Read more…]
2 CORINTHIANS 4:7 Jose Alberto Gutierrez, who lives in Bogota-Colombia built a massive free library in his house by rescuing books from trash bins. While emptying the bins of Colombia’s capital, Jose Alberto Gutierrez one day found a copy of the classic novel Anna Karenina and kept it. For twenty years, the garbage man continued to … [Read more…]
GENESIS 3:9 Hide-and-seek is a popular children’s game in which players conceal themselves in a set environment, to be found by one or more seekers. Most people have fond memories of playing the game as children. Yet sometimes in life the fear of being found is not fun but is rooted in a deep instinct to flee. … [Read more…]
ISAIAH 25:7 For twenty one years, Mary Ann Franco was totally blind after surviving a car accident in 1995. It took another accident in 2016 to cause what she calls an act of God. After falling down in her home, she received surgery on her spine to alleviate pain in her neck and arm and, when … [Read more…]
MATTHEW 5:29-30 Girolamo Savonarola was an Italian Dominican Monk from Ferrara and a fiery preacher. He was known for his prophecies of civic glory, the destruction of secular art and culture, and his calls for Christian renewal. He condemned clerical corruption, autocratic rule, and the exploitation of the poor. In February 1497, he and his supporters … [Read more…]
1 TIMOTHY 2:1 Do we stop to think of and pray for the people who are not close to us or known by us? Why should we really be bothered with their affairs when we have enough burden for the day and days to come? A young lady and her mother heard a news story about … [Read more…]
ACTS 16:23-34 Fannie Lou Hamer began civil rights activism in 1962, continuing until her health declined nine years later. She was known for her use of spiritual hymnals and quotes in leading the civil rights movement for black women in Mississippi. She was threatened, harassed, shot at, and assaulted by racists, including members of the … [Read more…]
DEUTERONOMY 31:6, 8 Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (popular known as Martin Niemöller) was born on January 14th, 1892 and died on March 6th, 1984. He was a German theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known for his opposition to the Nazi regime during the late 1930s and for his widely quoted 1946 poem … [Read more…]
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