While we were in Niagara Falls traveling with Chalice this Spring we had a chance to spend some time at the falls. While we were there the younger boys, Steven and Evan, were exploring the park and found a few squirrels that were quite playful. These squirrels were so friendly that they would come right up to you and take food from your hand.

Now as a mom, all I could think of was, “Be careful. Don’t get bitten. You might get rabies.” But Steven was so amazed by this one squirrel. He had his mouth full of sticks and… Read more

A speeding ticket? Jack took a long look at his speedometer before slowing down: 73 in a 55 zone. Fourth time in as many months. How could a guy get caught so often? When his car had slowed to 10 miles an hour, Jack pulled over, but only partially. Let the cop worry about the potential traffic hazard. Maybe some other car will tweak his backside with a mirror. The cop was stepping out of his car, the big pad in hand. Bob? Bob from Church? Jack sunk farther into his trench coat.

This was worse than the coming ticket.… Read more

His name is Bill. He has wild hair, wears a T-shirt with holes in it, jeans, and no shoes. This was literally his wardrobe for his entire four years of college. He is brilliant. Kind of esoteric and very, very bright. He became a Christian while attending college.

Across the street from the campus is a well-dressed, very conservative church. They want to develop a ministry to the students, but are not sure how to go about it. One day Bill decides to go there.

He walks in with no shoes, jeans, his T-shirt, and wild hair. The service has… Read more

There was a young man who was at the end of his rope. Seeing no way out, he dropped to his knees in prayer.

“Lord, I can’t go on,” he said. “I have too heavy a cross to bear.”

The Lord replied, “My son, if you can’t bear it’s weight, just place your cross inside this room. Then open another door and pick any cross you wish.”

The man was filled with relief. “Thank you, Lord,” he sighed, and did as he was told.

As he looked around the room he saw many different crosses; some so large the tops… Read more

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.

“What food might this contain?” The mouse wondered – he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!”

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, “Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it.”

The mouse turned to… Read more

The will of God will never take you,
Where the Grace of God cannot keep you,
Where the Arms of God cannot support you,
Where the Riches of God cannot supply your needs,
Where the Power of God cannot endow you.

The will of God will never take you,
Where the Spirit of God cannot work through you,
Where the Wisdom of God cannot teach you,
Where the Army of God cannot protect you,
Where the Hands of God cannot mold you.

The Will of God will never take you,
Where… Read more

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, and some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

After all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:

“If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving… Read more

I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phones.

♦ What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?

♦ What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?

♦ What if we flipped through it several times a day?

♦ What if we used it to receive messages from the text?

♦ What if we treated it like we couldn’t live without it?

♦ What if we gave it to kids as gifts?

♦ What if we used it as we traveled?

♦ What if we… Read more

I may have been a bit young when the series MacGyver was around, but there’s still one thing I know for sure: that guy could make a whole lot happen with only a little bit of “stuff.” A bit of string, a stick of gum, two paper clips, some loose change, and a lighter could get you out of just about anything from fixing a helicopter to escaping from a maximum secruity building; that is, as long as MacGyver was around to put them together in some ingenious way to make everything fall together in your favor.

Well, God has… Read more

A voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able to swim to a small, desert-like island. The two survivors, not knowing what else to do, agreed that they had no other recourse but to pray to God. However, to find out whose prayer was more powerful, they agreed to divide the territory between them and stay on opposite sides of the island.

The first thing they prayed for was food. The next morning, the first Man saw a fruit-bearing tree on his side of the land, and he was… Read more

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.

The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall.

When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen.

The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted.

The second son… Read more

Well, it’s finally happened. The Lord finally gave us the confirmation that we’re to start working full-time at the ministry and give up our full-time secular jobs. So we’ve started closing the printing business on Mondays and the rest of the week having hours by appointment. We’re not closing the printing business totally but absorbing it into the ministry to allow us to print The Well. We’ll also use finances generated from some of the printing to help the ministry’s expenses. So we’ll be able to continue to do printing for some of the churches and ministries that we’re currently… Read more