Precious Lord by Thomas A. Dorsey – Birth of a Song

Back in 1932, I was 32 years old and a fairly new husband. My wife, Nettie and I were living in a little apartment on Chicago’s Southside. One hot August afternoon I had to go to St. Louis, where I was to be the featured soloist at a large revival meeting. I didn’t want to go.

Easter Celebration in Triumphant Song

I wanted to have an Easter Sunday post that reflects some of the flavor of the church services that I have attended on Easter Sunday over the years. Unfortunately, there isn’t any quality video available that gives the sounds and the “feel” of the services I remember.

Hallelujah, Easter Version by Kelley Mooney

Hallelujah, Easter Version by Kelley Mooney – How Did It Come About? This is an updated version of an earlier post. In the meantime, the video went viral on GodVine.com and recorded over 5 million YouTube views. The first time I heard the song Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen was when K D Lang sang it […]

George Younce – Southern Gospel Music Giant – Heroes of the Faith Series

  George Younce is a hero of Southern Gospel music and one of my very most favorite Christian singers. George is way more than a Christian musician or Gospel singer. And he is way more than I know or am able to describe from personal experience. But he is a man and a life worth […]

Ron DiCianni: Painting the Resurrection

This is a marvelous 4+ minute video of a CBN.com/tv interview with world-renown artist Ron DiCianni who was commissioned by the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas, Texas to paint the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In the video, Ron explains how he came to understand the resurrection of Jesus Christ and says that God gave […]

God’s Wife.

Its cold and snowy across much of the U. S. and its cold even in Central Florida where my wife, Lynn, and I spend half of our year. We just missed a frost last night! So this seemed to be the perfect time to visit this cold and snowy scene in New York City some […]

Little Girl’s Prayer Saved a Dying Baby’s Life. You Won’t Believe What She Asked For!

This Little Girl’s Prayer Saved a Dying Baby’s Life. And You Won’t Believe What She Asked For!      I found the story of A Little Girl;s Prayer on GodVine.com, a Christian-themed site that features a variety of content in word, song, and video. Most of its material is curated from other places on the internet. […]

It Is Well With My Soul – The Inspiring Story Behind This Revered Hymn

It is Well With My Soul – How I First Heard the History I don’t know about you, but I grew up attending church with my parents and singing many different hymns out of a hymnal to the point that I can now (over a half-century later) still sing them almost perfectly word for word. […]

The Day I Met Daniel Who Gives Out Bibles

The Day I Met Daniel Who Gives Out Bibles Snopes.com Claim:   Pastor encounters down-at-the-heels traveler who hands out bibles.Status:   True.   ORIGINS:   We first saw this story circulated on the Internet in 2001. Although many copies omit mention of its author, the essay is the work of Richard Ryan, the assistant pastor […]

The Man Who Stopped the Roman Gladiator Fights – Faith Stories You Won’t Forget Series

  This is the remarkable story of one man, a monk named Telemachus, whose revulsion by the senseless violence of the Roman gladiator fights-to-the-death led to the end of this brutal practice – at the cost of his own life. There are some differences in the details of various versions of the historical writings on […]

Hello, My Name is Edith Burns. Do You Believe in Easter?

With a heavy heart he said, “Your lab report came back and it says you have cancer, and Edith, you’re not going to live very long.”

Edith said, “Why Will Phillips, shame on you. Why are you so sad? Do you think God makes mistakes?

Catching up with Eddie Ogan, author of “The Rich Family in Church” – Part 3

In 1979 she found out she had cancer. For the second time. The first time, in 1965, resulted in a hysterectomy. This time Eddie had an inoperable brain tumor.

“I’ll go home, and take care of my kids,” she told the doctor. “If it’s the Lord’s time for me to die, I’ll die. If not, I’ll live.” Two months later, the tumor was gone.

Catching up with Eddie Ogan, author of “The Rich Family in Church” – Part 2 of 3

Part 1
Whatever Happened to the Rich Little Poor Girl?
Catching up with Eddie Ogan, author of “The Rich Family in Church”
by Kimberly Claassen

The Rich Family of Eddie Ogan In Church Part 1 of 3 Parts

This is a repost of one of my favorite stories that appeared on the blog in April 2014. Read it and it will become one of your favorites, too! It is in three parts. Links to all three parts are at the end of this post.  (This story has appeared several times and places on […]

Keep Your Fork – Two True, Very Different Stories!

  Story Number One – The Best is Yet to Come!   Courtesy of Inspire21.com Attributed to Roger William ThomasSubmitted to Ann Landers by Kay in California A woman was diagnosed with a terminal illness and given three months to live. She asked her Pastor to come to her home to discuss her final wishes. […]

The Church Triumphant – by Bill and Gloria Gaither Updated

The Church Triumphant – Then and Now The original performance of this song written and performed by Gloria and Bill Gaither was in the mid 1970s nearly 50 years ago. It has been sung by and at successive groupings of the Gaither music enterprise that spans over a half century and is “alive and well” […]

A Catchy Response to the “War on Christmas” – What is Yours?

Here is a catchy response to “The War on Christmas’ that many people feel is occurring. Take note of the choir’s initials! There must be a lot of interest in this topic because the video has over 7 million views.     Your Reactions to the War on Christmas, Please I’d really like your feedback […]

A Soldier’s Prayer

 I looked and looked for something appropriate for Veteran’s Day and when my eyes fell upon this poem titled A Soldier’s Prayer, I stopped looking. Most emergency personnel like the military, police, firemen, doctors, etc. are really people we hope not to see or need. A consequence of this, I believe, is that we don’t […]

Jessica Long – World Record Paralympian Swimmer – I Am Second

This post features the I AM Second story of Jessica Long titled Anger Defeated. Jessica was born in Russia to parents who could not care for her since she suffered from severely under developed lower legs. She was put up for adoption and adopted by a family in Baltimore, MD. She experienced deep feelings of anger and […]

“Do You Think I’ll Ever Find God?”, Tommy Asked

  This story was written by Father John Powell, a retired professor at Loyola University in Chicago. Father Powell is advanced in years, but the story is still fresh in his mind and he confirmed that it is true, according to TruthOrFiction.com   A TRUE STORY about an Atheist Theology Student Who Was Found by […]

Teen Sings “I Don’t Want the (church) Service to End!” Wow!

  COMMUNITY is a church that began as the dream of five friends from college who wanted to create a place that would help people find their way back to God. Services were first held in the Naperville Central High School cafeteria, and 8 years later COMMUNITY launched its first additional location in Romeoville, IL. […]

Christopher Duffley Blind, Autistic Boy Sings Praises With Perfect Pitch

A Prayer for the Value of Life Remind us that Your thoughts and purposes for every unborn baby are vast and outnumber the grains of sand. You have ordained the days of their lives and those days are written in Your book even before one of those days has come to be. I plead with […]

Stuart Hamblen, Songwriter + John Wayne, Actor + Billy Graham, Preacher = ?

 Do You Know Who Stuart Hamblen Is? Note. I try to check out the stories I post before posting them, especially if they are “Author Unknown”.  Snopes.com says this story is mostly true with only a few minor inaccuracies or embellishments that don’t interfere with the basic truth of the story. – Dick S Back […]

Thank You For Giving to the Lord – Tribute to the Billy Graham Ministry by Bill and Gloria Gaither

  One of my favorite Christian songs from several years ago is Thank you For Giving to the Lord by Ray Boltz. The song tells of several seemingly small and sometimes even unknown “gifts” of service that forever changed the lives of people who who are already in heaven when the gift giver arrives and […]