In 2008 there was a sale that you might have missed. The Empire State Building was up for sale.  You might be suprised at the cost it went for.  Some people thought the group that bought it paid too much.  $72,000 was the sold price at the final hammer. Do you think that sounds like […]

Let me tell you a familiar story.  The nation of Israel was in captivity. They had been for some time and it didn’t seem like it was going to get any better.  It had been a long time since they had been a free people, but there were pockets of hope.  They were still waiting […]

When your family gets together this Thursday, what will you talk about?  All over the country families sit at tables and discuss all sorts of things.Politics, current events, sports, or whatever else hot topic is at hand. One thing many families like to talk about is the past. The good old days, the way things […]

“Clarificiation of the error may take some time.”   That was the report issued by the local government in the Esbjerg Municipality in Denmark when the official opening of a new bridge was announced to be delayed in 2017.  Not a surprise that a government project was delayed, but the “why” might surprise you on […]

Gladys Aylward was no stranger to hard work.  In 1932 she spent her lifesavings on a one way train passage to Yangchen, China that took her across Siberia. There she got detained by the Russians but managed to evade them with local help and a lift on a Japanese ship. And that was just the […]

It’s easy to look at the life of someone like the Apostle Paul and think we could never live up to that. Jesus appeared to him on the road!  Of course he was a great missionary and evangelist. It’s easy to think that we could never be like that.  We compare ourselves to Billy Graham, […]

The newspaper headline read “Missing Woman Mystery Solved.” But there was a plot twist that no one could’ve seen coming.   A traveling tourist group was going through Iceland, near the Eldgja Canyon.  They were mostly strangers on a trip together, but were all on a bus and got out to go tour the canyon. […]

If you travel to South America, to Peru specifically, and go up towards the mountains near the towns of Nazca and Palpa, you would see something strange.  Clustered in that area are huge lines in the ground, obviously man made.  Some are just one foot across, some up to 6 feet. Some total up to […]

How far would you drive for a deal?  If you’re buying a car and the dealership in next town over has same car for $2k less, wouldn’t you drive over there?  That’s probably worth the drive. What if I told you that if you drove to Durant you’d get $100 every day.  Would you go? […]

One of the largest markets in the world today is called the referral market.  It’s the business where companies get a famous person to recommend something to those people that follow them.  It’s an old trick, using celebrities to sell more. But in the digital world it’s taken on a whole new life.  People are […]