"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" ( Proverbs 9:10 ). And Peter urges us to "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" ( 2 Peter 3:18 ). These nine stories about wisdom, foolishness and growth, retold in our own words, include a doomed Arctic expedition, an empire that thought it could never fall, a lecture that fooled the experts, explorers who starved while eating, an eagle raised by rabbits, a family tradition nobody understood, a tailor puzzled by praise, cod kept fresh by catfish and a toy rabbit who wanted to become real. Each ends with a takeaway for sermons or reflection. Stories in this collection: Silver Forks in the Ice: The Lost Franklin Expedition "Your Lives": Alaric at the Gates of Rome The Dr Fox Effect: Fooled by an Expert Starving While Eating: Scott of the Antarctic Eddie the Eagle Who Thought He Was a Rabbit Why We Cut the End off the Roast Driving God Crazy: The Tailor and the Rabbi Codfish an...
Sermon stories for preaching and faithful living