I recently watched part of a program about the building of the Titanic. It was one of the largest ships being built at the time. The part I watched they were discussing how sturdy she was and how she was unsinkable. By law they still had to put life boats on board. One guy said he…

Temptation is not something new. It has been around since Genesis chapter 3. It comes in many different forms throughout the rest of the scriptures; anything from fruit to wealth to pretty women to idols to following the wrong crowd. Pretty much anything that falls into these categories is a form of temptation –“For all…

If you have ever gone clothes shopping with me you know that it takes me forever to pick the right item for me. I can go into a store and try on just about their entire inventory and walk out with nothing. It drives my husband crazy!!! When I finally find something I like, I keep…

I REALLY like chocolate. I like it in any form; cake, pie, brownies, cookies, candy bar, and occasionally straight from the chocolate syrup bottle. I remember when my parents made us homemade chocolate candy. They melted the chocolate and poured it into different molds. The chocolate would then take the shape of whatever it was poured…

Are you cold? Of course, we all have been cold before that is why we have coats and gloves, but I’m not talking about that type of cold. I’m talking about your heart. What does it mean when someone calls you cold-hearted? (I hope no one has.) Webster defines it as marked by lack of…

“What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. Just as it is written:“God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see And ears that they should not hear, To this very day.” And David says: “Let their table…

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…

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,…

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…