His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death...
The Brooklyn Bridge, which links Brooklyn to Manhattan Island, is one of the most famous bridges in the world. Today there are many bridges across the globe surpass Brooklyn Bridge in engineering features, but in 1883 it was unthinkable. Bridge-building experts throughout the world told the designer, a creative engineer by the name of John Roebling, that his idea wouldn’t work. Roebling...
It is a bit of a long process to produce one tin of Coke-Cola. It starts with the mining of bauxite in Western Australia, on the Murray River. Then crushed and washed with hot sodium hydroxcide, heated and became eventually became aluminium oxide. The alumina is dissolved in cryolite, mined in Greenland and turned into pure aluminium. Them it is loaded on a ship at the port of Bunbary – for sale...
Wagner Dodge faced the cost of introducing counterintuitive thinking with his fire crew during the Mann Gulch fire in 1949. His crew of fifteen smokejumpers was tasked with fighting a fire on a 97-degree day in high winds. The fire was so hot that they couldn’t get within one hundred feet of it. While trying to figure out where to start fighting the fire, it turned on them and quickly they were...
“New kinds of churches really are the hope of the future,” says Australian missiologist Mike Frost. On his weblog, he shares the tale of two Anglican dioceses, one in Sydney (Australia), the other in Leicester (UK). Long considered “a last bastion of growth and vitality of Anglicanism in Australia”, the Diocese of Sydney now sees a decline in church attendance. Looking for reasons for the...
Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch lady that became well known after WWII and preach the gospel in many nations. She and her sister Betsie were in a family that was hiding Jews during the war. They were sent to the infamous concentration camp in Ravensbrück. There were times when Corrie Ten Boom felt cut off from the Lord. In such a time of despair, she once said to the Lord, “Have you forgotten your...
Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually served to advance the gospel. Philippians 1:12 A Vietnamese brother, Daniel*, was led by the Lord to the minister in the north where he soon found himself in the midst of a revival. The inevitable soon happened and Daniel was sent to prison, his “training school,” for three years. He shares his experience...
The Baltic Way The longest human chain in history was formed across the Baltics just thirty years ago last Friday as a moral protest against the illegal occupation by the Soviet Union of these lands. It stretched 675 kilometres from the north of Estonia across Latvia to the south of Lithuania. Exactly 80 years ago, on 23 August 1939, a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union was...
This is the amazing testimony of the simple evangelistic ministry of Frank Jenner, a resident of Sydney, Australia. You will be greatly encouraged and want to share the gospel after reading this. This all started a number of years ago in a Baptist church in Crystal Palace in South London. The Sunday morning service was closing, and a man stood up at the back and raised his hand and said: “Excuse...
The 1953 revival in the Belgian Congo Ibambi On the last Friday evening of July 1953, about 100 believers of a Bible School at Ibambi in the old Belgian Congo (today the DRC), came together for their weekly fellowship meeting. Jack Scholes, the leader of a team of fifty missionaries working across the province, shared what he had witnessed during the previous two weeks of revival in the southern...