One of the things I love about where I live is there are no street lights. On moonless nights when I stand in my front yard the only manmade lights I see are the occasionally passing jets on their way to Boston. The other lights...
Children love to taunt each other with “I’ve got a secret.” Secrets are fun to hear and fun to tell. They spark our curiosity and whet our appetites to know whatever the hidden information might be. The Bible contains secrets. According to Deuteronomy 34:6 the...
Peter and John were able to get into the courtyard during Jesus’ trial that fateful Thursday night. The horror of the incredible abuse being heaped upon Jesus filled them with almost uncontrollable emotions. How could it be happening? This was their Messiah. He silenced furious...
If our household is in anyway normal Americans are recycling more than we are trashing. At least it appears that way by the fullness of our trash container verses our recycling container. While recycling might seem to be a product of the last decade or...
Both Margaret Thacker and Annette Funicello have passed away. One is known for her iron-like leadership of Great Britain for eleven years. The other is known for her wholesome Mickey Mouse Club/Disney beach movies of the 60’s. Could any two people be more different? Yet...
Do you remember playing with maple tree seeds when you were a kid? Do you remember tossing them as high as possible to watch them twirl like helicopters as they fell back to earth? Windy days were the best because you could throw handfuls into...
In our home in Africa my wife heard our littlest calling from outside “nake nake.” Looking out the window she saw him running across the yard, not away from, but after a snake. Before she could get outside she saw one of our students, who...
It all happens in a millisecond. You place a buy order on the stock market and a computer notes your offer and because it is a faster computer than yours it quickly buys that stock at your price and then the stock at your offering...
The Queen of England is not legally required to have a driver’s license or use her seat belt. Upon learning this, my mind went to a silly thought. Would God always use His seat belt? The question raises some interesting issues regarding God and His...
"Solomon said, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." During an earthquake in Chile 300 prisoners escaped. It almost sounds like a story in Acts 16, "About midnight Paul and Silas...