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]

The recently widowed woman was growing concerned To collect some vital funds from an insurance policy she needed key information about the accident that had taken her husband rsquo s life She had talked to a police officer who said he rsquo d help her but then she lost his business card So she prayed pleading with God for help A short time later she was at her church when she walked by a window and saw a card mdash the policeman rsquo s card mdash on a windowsill She had no idea how it got there but she knew [... more]

Fast-food restaurant worker Kevin Ford hadn rsquo t missed a shift in twenty-seven years After a video surfaced showing his humble gratitude for a modest gift he received to commemorate his decades of service thousands of people rallied together to show kindness to him ldquo It rsquo s like a dream a dream come true that nobody can even think of this rdquo he said when a fundraising effort brought in in just over a week Jehoiachin the exiled king of Judah was also the recipient of extreme kindness He rsquo d been incarcerated for thirty-seven years before the benevolence [... more]

The letter from ldquo Jason rdquo an inmate surprised my wife and me We ldquo foster rdquo puppies to become service dogs assisting people with disabilities One such puppy had graduated to the next training phase which was run by prisoners who have been taught how to train the dogs Jason rsquo s letter to us said ldquo Snickers is the seventeenth dog I rsquo ve trained and she is the best one When I see her looking up at me I feel like I rsquo m finally doing something right rdquo Jason isn rsquo t the only one with [... more]

In the early nineteenth century Thomas Carlyle gave a manuscript to philosopher John Stuart Mill to review Whether accidentally or intentionally the manuscript got tossed into a fire It was Carlyle rsquo s only copy Undaunted he set to work rewriting the lost chapters Mere flames couldn rsquo t stop the story which remained intact in his mind Out of great loss Carlyle produced his monumental work The French Revolution In the waning days of ancient Judah rsquo s decadent kingdom God told the prophet Jeremiah ldquo Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken [... more]

A stately sunflower stood on its own in the center of a lonely stretch of national highway just a few feet from the fast lane As I drove past I wondered how it had grown there with no other sunflowers visible for miles Only God could create a plant so hardy it could thrive so close to the roadway in the gray gravel lining the median There it was thriving swaying gently in the breeze and cheerfully greeting travelers as they hurried by The Old Testament tells the story of a faithful king of Judah who also showed up unexpectedly [... more]