Month: March 2023
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Time Travel
If you could change something about yourself, what would it be? Your hair? Your weight? Your occupation? I’m sure there is a list as long as your arm of things you would like to change. What about your past? How many times have we laid in bed at night and thought about a mistake we…
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A Little Leaven Goes a Long Way
When I was growing up my parents opened a bakery. It was a small family owned business. My parents did most of the baking and were there from 2am to 6pm most days, except Sundays. Yes, you read the times right. They were dedicated to this business. My brothers and I worked after school, on…
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Still Time To Change
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel awoke one morning to read his own obituary in the local newspaper: “Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, who died yesterday, devised a way for more people to be killed in a war than ever before, and he died a very rich man.” Actually,…
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Freedom
Abraham Lincoln once said “Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.” Of course, he was referring to the struggle of the slaves to be free. This principle, freedom, is one that all people deserve. It was what our founding fathers were looking for when they broke away from the English monarchy. It is the…
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Worship On Vacation
“Then the servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. Therefore they were stronger than we; but if we fight against them in the plain, surely we will be stronger than they. So do this thing: Dismiss the kings, each from his position, and put captains in their places; and you shall…
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He Made The Worlds
“God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds.” (Hebrews 1:1, 2) The world is an incredibly large place. While I’ve not…
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2 + 2 = 5
Imagine a child in first grade taking a math test. One of the questions ask what two plus two is. Most people would answer four but this child responds with the number 5. Naturally, the teacher marks it wrong, explaining why 2+2=4. After class, the student protests the answer. The child explains to the teacher…
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Like It Was Yesterday
Some days of my high school years were more memorable than others. I remember marching in the band, paying for my lunch with pennies because I could, bowling for P.E., getting mono, roses delivered during government class, and getting engaged. But the day of school that I remember and laugh about the most is the…
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11 Suggestions on Prayer
Prayer should have first priority in the life of the Christian. A full reception of God’s blessings and complete life in Christ depends on making prayer a vital part of life. The finite creature before the infinite Creator! But what can we do to improve our prayer lives? Here’s some suggestions: To the believer, prayer is…
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The “Why’s” Of Life
132 is quite a large number. No, it is not the number of cups of coffee I drank today or even this week. It is not the number of oreos I can eat in one sitting (although I have never tested that). It is, however, the number of questions Job asked or reiterated in the…
Grace & Salt 