Tag Archives: Parables

Woe to the multitude of many people who make a noise like the roar of the seas, and to the rushing of nations that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! (Isaiah 17:12). Too Busy for Taxes He … Continue reading →

Woe to the multitude of many people who make a noise like the roar of the seas, and to the rushing of nations that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! (Isaiah 17:12). Dolphin with Anchor: “Hasten Slowly” … Continue reading →

Woe to the multitude of many people who make a noise like the roar of the seas, and to the rushing of nations that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! (Isaiah 17:12). Caught in Own Time Trap … Continue reading →

Woe to the multitude of many people who make a noise like the roar of the seas, and to the rushing of nations that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! (Isaiah 17:12). Around and Around in a … Continue reading →

Woe to the multitude of many people who make a noise like the roar of the seas, and to the rushing of nations that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! (Isaiah 17:12). Driving Fast But Aimlessly It … Continue reading →

Woe to the multitude of many people who make a noise like the roar of the seas, and to the rushing of nations that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! (Isaiah 17:12). Drive-In View of the Dead … Continue reading →

And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great (Revelation 16:21). H-Bomb Forms Hailstones Reports that have … Continue reading →

And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great (Revelation 16:21). A Monument to Hail Perhaps one … Continue reading →

Greed Unending For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie (2 Thessalonians 2:11). An eccentric adventurer named Harry Lasseter walked into Sydney, Australia, in 1931, cornered three promoters and told them a fantastic … Continue reading →

Mender of Eyes Quack For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie (2 Thessalonians 2:11). Queen Anne’s favorite physicians were quacks. She had always suffered from weak eyes and at that time the … Continue reading →

Buying Back His Book For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie (2 Thessalonians 2:11). During the 18th century, Dr. Johann Beringer, professor of natural philosophy at the University of Wurzburg, Germany, was … Continue reading →

Recipe for Suckers? For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie (2 Thessalonians 2:11). Shortly after Calvin Coolidge’s marriage, a door-to-door bookseller sold Mrs. Coolidge a weighty tome called Our Family Physician for … Continue reading →

The UFO Man For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie (2 Thessalonians 2:11). Waldport, Oregon (AP)—Authorities here are investigating reports that about 20 persons have sold their property and left the area … Continue reading →

Money-Making Machine For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie (2 Thessalonians 2:11). In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a farmer was duped into investing his life savings in a “money-making machine” which he was … Continue reading →

Trees With Baked Apples For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie (2 Thessalonians 2:11). Discovering that most people of the day believe everything they read, a young reporter in Connecticut went to … Continue reading →

Rasputin, the Monk For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie (2 Thessalonians 2:11). Rasputin, the monk is credited by some historians as one of the precipitating causes of the Russian Revolution. At … Continue reading →

A President’s Favor (Grace Applied) Felix Jardio, 60, a Filipino farmer had been saving his money for years to buy a carabao. He finally saved P1,300 and went out looking for the work animal, which he soon found. But alas, … Continue reading →

Only Grace Could There is a tradition that Jonathan Edwards, third president of Princeton and America’s greatest thinker, had a daughter with an ungovernable temper. But, as is so often the case, this infirmity was not known to the outside … Continue reading →