Two workers at a Mars candy factory in Pennsylvania fell into a large vat of chocolate This might sound like the beginning of a joke mdash and perhaps a lovely predicament to chocolate lovers But the men mdash though unhurt mdash were waist-deep in the confection and couldn rsquo t get out on their own Firefighters ultimately had to cut a hole in the side of the vat to deliver them to safety When the prophet Jeremiah found himself at the bottom of a mud-filled cistern the story was anything but sweet As a messenger to God rsquo s people [... more]

Abraham Lincoln confided to a friend ldquo I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go rdquo In the horrific years of the American Civil War President Lincoln not only spent time in fervent prayer but also called the country to join him In he proclaimed a ldquo day of humiliation prayer and fasting rdquo And he did so again in stating ldquo It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God to confess their sins and [... more]

In Joseph Stalin rsquo s doctor advised him to reduce his workload in order to preserve his health The ruler of the Soviet Union accused the physician of spying and had him arrested The tyrant who had oppressed so many with lies could not abide the truth and mdash as he had done so many times mdash Stalin removed the one who told him the facts Truth won anyway Stalin died in The prophet Jeremiah arrested for his dire prophecies Jeremiah ndash told the king of Judah exactly what would happen to Jerusalem ldquo Obey the Lord by doing what [... more]

https wfth me N MGu After seventy years of captivity God is about to restore His own people to their homeland by turning the heart of a Pagan King In this message Stephen reminds us that if God has princes and kingdoms in His hand He surely has us in His hands as well [... more]

Pastor Rick teaches from the book of the Acts [... more]

Before baseball rsquo s World Series sportswriter Hugh Fullerton made an astute prediction He said the Chicago Cubs who were expected to win would lose the first and third games and win the second Oh and it would rain on the fourth He was right on each point Then in his analytical skills told him certain players were losing World Series games intentionally Fullerton suspected they rsquo d been bribed by gamblers Popular opinion ridiculed him Again he was right Fullerton was no prophet mdash just a wise man who studied the evidence Jeremiah was a real prophet whose prophecies [... more]

In as the US economy crashed millions of people lost everything But not Floyd Odlum As everyone else panicked and sold their stocks at cut-rate prices Odlum appeared to foolishly jump in and purchase stocks just as the nation rsquo s future disintegrated But Odlum rsquo s ldquo foolish rdquo perspective paid off yielding robust investments that endured for decades God told Jeremiah to make what seemed like an absolutely ludicrous investment ldquo buy the field at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin rdquo Jeremiah This was no time to be buying fields however The entire country was on the [... more]

Wondering why The Magi are only in Matthew's Gospel - Plus the story of Abraham's Magi that the Jews would relate to from https www chabad org library article cdo aid jewish Nimrod-and-Abraham htm Nimrod's Humble Heritage Nimrod the mighty hunter was one of the sons of Kush Kush was the son of Ham the lowest and least important of Noah's three sons Nimrod came from a line which was cursed by Noah Cursed be Canaan a slave of slaves shall he be unto his brothers By birth Nimrod had no right to be a king or ruler But he [... more]