King of the Jungle
King of the Jungle A lion approached a monkey and asked, Who is the king of the jungle? The monkey answered, ‘you are, oh lion‘. The lion then asked the giraffe, rabbit, warthog, and mouse, and they all gave him the same answer, ‘You are, oh lion.’ The lion then swaggered to the elephant and […]
Knowledge Lies Not In Mere Words – Charles H Spurgeon
Knowledge Lies Not In Mere Words – Charles H Spurgeon I heard two persons on the Wengern Alp talking by the hour together of the names of ferns; not a word about their characteristics, uses, or habits, but a medley of crack-jaw titles, and nothing more. They evidently felt that they were ventilating their botany, […]
Kingdom Of Christ Its Glories – Charles H Spurgeon
Kingdom Of Christ Its Glories – Charles H Spurgeon The palace of Versailles with its countless representations of battles, sieges, stormings, surprises, and all other forms of wholesale and retail murder, is dedicated, according to an inscription on its front, To all the glories of France. Bah! As well consecrate a shambles to all the […]
Know Your Calling
Know Your Calling Timothy Stackpole was a New York Firefighter, who was severely burned in a 1998 fire. After he recovered, he returned to the force despite the advice of some friends and family and the fact that he could retire comfortably. He was a great fire fighter and passionate about his work and was […]
Keep Your Family Strong
Keep Your Family Strong “A breach in the wall of the home or a crack in the foundation of the family provides the devil an opening to destroy the framework of both.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Keeping a Dress White
Keeping a Dress White A young lady who was attempting to defend her attendance at questionable places of amusement told her friend that she thought a Christian could go anywhere. Her friend replied, “Certainly she can, but I am reminded of a little incident which happened last summer when I went with a party of […]
King Saud
King Saud Clark Clifford shares this reminiscence of his former boss, President Harry Truman: Every morning at 8:30 the president would have a staff meeting. One day the mail clerk brought in a lavender envelope with a regal wax seal and flowing purple ribbons. Upon opening it, the President found a letter from King Saud of Saudi Arabia, […]
Kindness Returned
Kindness Returned There is a story told about the surrender of the Confederacy at Appomattox Courthouse as the Civil War concluded. General Grant was an unusual man. Knowing the war was over and the victory was his, he showed great, and unusual, kindness and respect toward the chief general of the Confederates. He allowed General […]
Keep What Is Precious
Keep What Is Precious Things bought at garage sales don’t usually end up on the evening news, but a Chinese bowl bought by a New York family in 2007, became famous in April of 2013. The new owners paid just three dollars for what turned out to be a bowl from the Northern Song Dynasty […]
Knowledge of Christ, the Foundation of Preaching – Charles Spurgeon
Knowledge of Christ, the Foundation of Preaching – Charles Spurgeon WHEN I preach Christ and his salvation to you I do not preach what I learned in a college or was taught by men: I preach to you what I would die for; what is the chief joy of my soul; what I know, and […]
Knowledge of Christ Eagerly Desired – Charles Spurgeon
Knowledge of Christ Eagerly Desired – Charles Spurgeon SUPPOSE that as you wake up one morning you find lying upon your pillow a precious love-token from your unknown friend, a ring sparkling with jewels, and engraved with a tender inscription, a bouquet of flowers bound about with a love-motto! Your curiosity now knows no bounds. […]
Knowledge—The Best – Charles Spurgeon
Knowledge—The Best – Charles Spurgeon IT is coming on dark, and we are lost among the mountains. There is an awful precipice there, a quarter of a mile sharp down. There is a bog over yonder, and if a man once gets into it he will never get out again. There is a wood yonder, […]
Kinship of Trouble – Charles Spurgeon
Kinship of Trouble – Charles Spurgeon WHEN you do not know where you are going, and have only half an idea that you are steering right, how cheerfully you make a friend of any poor laboring man who is going your way! If it be a rough-looking navvy, it does not matter, he is in […]
Kingdom of Christ, Coming of – Charles Spurgeon
Kingdom of Christ, Coming of – Charles Spurgeon “UP, guards, and at them!” was said in the day of battle, and I may still say it to every Christian. In these days, when popery gathers her might, and infidelity shoots forth her poisoned arrows, let none of us be wanting in the day of battle, […]
Kingdom of Christ Advancing – Charles Spurgeon
Kingdom of Christ Advancing – Charles Spurgeon WALK in your gardens today, when all the fruit trees are opening their blossoms and pouring forth their perfumes on the air, and the birds are at the highest point of song, and you will think, “Yes, it has surely come, spring smiles on us after all.” The […]
Kindness of God – Charles Spurgeon
Kindness of God – Charles Spurgeon AS we were sitting by the Lake of Lucerne, the rugged old Pilatus was suddenly covered with blackness, forth flashed the forked lightning, followed by sharp cracks of thunder reverberated in long peals, enough to let us know that the artillery of Heaven had not spent its might, and […]
3 Kinds of People
3 Kinds of People There are three kinds of people in the world: 1. Those who watch things happen;2. Those who make things happen; and3. Those who wonder, “What just happened?” Which one are you? Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Kinds of Fear
Kinds of Fear Mysophobia is fear of dirt. Hydrophobia is fear of water. Nyclophobia is the fear of darkness. Acrophobia is fear of high places. Taxophobia is fear of being buried alive. Xenophobia is fear of strangers. Necrophobia is fear of the dead. Claustrophobia is fear of confined places. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number […]
Kind Words
Kind Words One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down. It took […]
Know When to Stop
Know When to Stop Each year on the fourth of July the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Company sponsors a hot dog eating contest. In 2013 Joey Chestnut won the competition for the seventh year in a row, setting a new record by eating 69 hot dogs and buns in just ten minutes. The second runner […]
King George and Queen Elizabeth and then Princess Elizabeth-George Mueller
King George and Queen Elizabeth and then Princess Elizabeth-George Mueller King George and Queen Elizabeth and then Princess Elizabeth set the example of being great leaders of and role models for their people by being servants. The Rev. Dr. John C. Maxwell is an honored pastor in the Wesleyan Church Dr. Maxwell and founder of […]
KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING
KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING In November, 1975, seventy-five convicts started digging a secret tunnel designed to bring them up at the other side of the wall of Saltillo Prison in northern Mexico. On April 18, 1976, they tunneled up into the nearby courtroom in which many of them had been sentenced. The surprised judges […]
Know Where You Are Going
Know Where You Are Going Albert Einstein was traveling from Princeton on a train. When the conductor came down the aisle punching tickets Einstein reached in his vest pocket; he could not find his ticket, so he reached in his trouser pockets. It wasn’t there so he looked in his briefcase, but still could not […]
Know Your Calling
Know Your Calling Timothy Stackpole was a New York Firefighter, who was severely burned in a 1998 fire. After he recovered, he returned to the force despite the advice of some friends and family and the fact that he could retire comfortably. He was a great fire fighter and passionate about his work and was […]
King George and Queen Elizabeth and then Princess-George Mueller
King George and Queen Elizabeth and then Princess-George Mueller King George and Queen Elizabeth and then Princess Elizabeth set the example of being great leaders of and role models for their people by being servants. The Rev. Dr. John C. Maxwell is an honored pastor in the Wesleyan Church Dr. Maxwell and founder of two […]
Knowledge Must Be Acted Upon
Knowledge Must Be Acted Upon Scientists studied a native tribe in South America whose people have been dying prematurely for generations. After thorough investigation, the cause of premature death was determined. The disease was transmitted by an insect that lived in the walls of their adobe homes. This knowledge presented several options. They could move […]
Know What You Believe
KNOW WHAT YOU BELIEVE Jonathan Whitfield was preaching to coal miners in England. He asked one man, “What do you believe?” “Well, I believe the same as the church.” “And what does the church believe?” “Well, they believe the same as me.” Seeing he was getting nowhere, Whitfield said, “And what is it that you […]
Keeping the Tip
Keeping the Tip Blake Seybolt delivered pizzas to help with his college expenses. Once a seven-year-old boy came to the door to pay for the pizzas carrying a check in one hand and two one-dollar bills in the other. The boy pocketed the bills and presented the check to Blake which was in the exact […]
KNOWING THE SHEPHERD OF THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM
KNOWING THE SHEPHERD OF THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM May years ago, one of England’s leading actors was asked to recite for the pleasure of his fellow guests. He consented and asked if there was anything special that his audience would like to hear. After a moment’s pause, an old clergyman present said: “Could you, sir, recite […]
KEEPING MISTAKES IN PERSPECTIVE
KEEPING MISTAKES IN PERSPECTIVE Many years ago a senior executive of the then Standard Oil Company made a wrong decision that cost the company more than $2 million. John D. Rockefeller was then running the firm. On the day the news leaked out most of the executives of the company were finding various ingenious ways […]