Free Great Dog Stories by M. R. Wells

prophecies that pointed the way to the coming Savior. Here are just a few. It had to be a man from the line of David. Born in a not too big, not too small town called Bethlehem. Oh, yes. And one more thing.
    “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel” (Isaiah 7:14).
    Yikes! His mother had to be… a virgin.
    Now if that doesn’t make the One hard to find, what does? Can you imagine the stress it would have caused Daniel’s family if they’d added “puppies born of a virgin” to their wish list?
    It takes a bit more faith to find an immaculately conceived human than a couple of short-haired puppies that don’t shed much. I mean, how does one actually find a perfect man who never sinned, who is the Son of God, who died and rose again from the dead, who can fill that eternity of emptiness in your broken heart and save you from eternal death and give you the gift of eternal life? Where do you find Someone like that? You can read about Him in the Bible, listen to His words on your MP3 player, hear sermons about Him, and get down on your knees and pray to this invisible God. But you can’t see Him with your own eyes. You can’t look out your back window and see your next-door neighbor Jesus walking across His swimming pool or rebuking a fig tree, causing it to instantly shrivel up and die.
    So if you can’t see Jesus, He’s not real, right?
    Not unless you take that drive of faith.
    Unless you are willing to take a leap of faith and believe He’s as real as Panda and Bear, you will never have an actual relationship with Him. And you may miss out on the greatest blessing ever bestowed on mankind: knowing God’s love for sure .

    And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him (Hebrews 11:6).
Consider This:
    Do you believe that Jesus exists? If so, how has your life changed since He filled that God-shaped hole? If not, have you checked out the Bible to learn about the One? Would you consider taking a drive of faith to find out whether He is as advertised?

Trust and Be on TV
God Has a Role for You
    Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
    A RISTOTLE
    L ike so many other folks, I love dogs. I have dogs that I call my friends in several cities. They know me and run up to me so I can hug them when I see them. But there is a dog I adore that I have never actually met. He is a television star. His character name is Levi and he plays on an old television series called Sue Thomas, F.B. Eye. Sue is deaf, so Levi alerts her to important sounds in her world. He has been trained to help in this way, just like Seeing Eye dogs are trained to help the blind.
    The dog Levi’s real name is Jesse. When the show’s creators were just starting to cast, Jesse came to audition for them in Thousand Oaks, California. The creators fell in love with Jesse right away and hired him. He could do practically anything. If he was asked to do a new trick, his trainer and master, Bryan, would work with him just a little, and he’d catch on.
    It was easy to see that Jesse loved his master and would do anything to please him. Bryan liked it when the writers would put little bits in the script to show off Jesse’s skills. For example, Bryan taught Jesse to touch the elevator button with his nose or paw by putting a piece of a treat in the button. Sue would tell Levi which floor they wanted, and he would touch the appropriate button with his nose or paw. This would make everyone in the elevator smile—Levi included.
    When Deanne, the actress who played Sue, first met Jesse, she fell in love with him too. But she was concerned about how he’d be treated as a working animal. She didn’t yet know Bryan. When she saw Bryan lying with Jesse on the studio floor between takes, she realized Jesse was loved and well cared for.
    Joan Johnson, the writer and