DISHONOR
DISHONOR
Take Edwin Thomas, for instance. Edwin Thomas Booth, that is. At age fifteen he debuted on the stage playing Tressel to his father's Richard...
DISILLUSION
DISILLUSION
Babe Ruth had hit 714 home runs during his baseball career and was playing one of his last full major league games. It was the Braves versus t...
DISOBEDIENCE
DISOBEDIENCE
Elisabeth Elliot, at Urbana 76, told of her brother Thomas Howard. Their mother let him play with paper bags she'd saved if he put them ...
DISSONANCE
DISSONANCE
In his early years, American landscape photographer Ansel Adams studied piano and showed some talent. At one party, however, as Adams played Ch...
DISTRACTION
DISTRACTION
There is a story involving Yogi Berra, the well-known catcher for the New York Yankees, and Hank Aaron, who at that time was the chief power h...
DIVERSION
DIVERSION
A former police officer tells of the tactics of roving bands of thieves: "They enter the store as a group. One or two separate themselves from t...
DIVISION
DIVISION
Calvin, who saw that the Devil's chief device was disunity and division and who preached that there should be friendly fellowship for all mi...
DIVORCE
DIVORCE
For many years I've publicly challenged the widely-held belief that one of two marriages ends in divorce. It was obviously not true. Some aca...
DOCTOR
DOCTOR
According to a study published by Yale researchers in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a third of American doctors do not have a regular doctor, ...
DOCTRINE
DOCTRINE
A pastor I know, Stephey Belynskyj, starts each confirmation class with a jar full of beans. He asks his students to guess how many beans are in ...
DOORMATS
DOORMATS
Have you ever heard of the "Dependent Order of Really Meek and Timid Souls"? When you make an acrostic of its first letters, you have "Doormats."...
DOSTOEVSKY
DOSTOEVSKY
A Brief Biography
He was 25 and had already captured the hearts of Russia with his novel Poor Folk. Fame quickly went to his head. He dra...
DOUBLE STANDARD
DOUBLE STANDARD
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DOUBT
DOUBT
Let me meet you on the mountain, Lord,
Just once.
You wouldn't have to burn a whole bush.
Just a few smoking branches
A...
DOUBTFUL THINGS
DOUBTFUL THINGS
One of my favorite stories comes from a man who used to be in our church. He and his wife were close friends of our family, but they have ...
DREAM
DREAM
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allen Poe.
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DRIVING
DRIVING
While the family of Harry Bliss mourned, they surely had no idea of the tide of grieving his death would unleash. He died in 1899 in New York City...
DROUGHT
DROUGHT
In South Africa, naturist club owner Beau Brummell was irked by accusations from moral watchdogs that a shriveling Transvaal drought was brought o...
DUPLICITY
DUPLICITY
After his victory over Antony at Actuim, Augustus Caesar came back to Rome in triumph. Among the huge crowd who greeted him was a man who had a ...
DUTY
DUTY
One of the most tragic events during the Reagan Presidency was the Sunday morning terrorist bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, in which hundre...