It has been said that man can live forty days without food, three days without water, and eight minutes without air, but only one second without hope. A scientific experiment by Duke University proved this to be true. A group of behavioral... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Kids can be very cruel. They notice imperfections better than the average person. They don’t forget them; and they don’t let you forget them, either. Crooked noses, freckles, big ears, frizzy hair, eyeglasses, birthmarks, and anything else... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
When we are hurting, we don’t need the God of Christian textbooks. We need the God of the Bible. In Living by God’s Surprises, Harold Myra wrote of an experience his pastor had with a woman who had lost a close friend. The pastor gave her all... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
If we do not approach the study of God’s Word honestly and with realistic expectations, then we are like the man who searched for honey only to find a loaf of bread. One of the popular (but Biblically inaccurate) trends in Christendom years... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
If you have a spiritual gift, then you won’t have to tell anybody else. They will see it for themselves. I once had a man come to me and ask if he could teach an adult Sunday School class. Supposedly God had told him he had the spiritual gift... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Sometimes we need a little help bringing our assets to light. The poet Elizabeth Goldring had developed blindness as an adult. One day during an eye exam, a doctor tested her eyes with a laser device called a scanning laser ophthalmoscope. In... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
No one has ever built a Lego castle (or a Lego Taj Mahal, a Lego model of London’s Trafalgar Square, or a Lego city, for that matter) with only one Lego piece. Any Lego creation requires hundreds or even thousands of Lego pieces put together.... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Bart Simon had every reason never to fly again. On Sunday, March 22, 1992, he boarded USAir Flight 405 and waited on the tarmac. The plane would be departing in the middle of a snowstorm; but after a half-hour delay, it had been cleared for... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Never underestimate the power of a father’s love. On December 7, 1988, two massive earthquakes in Armenia killed nearly 30,000 people in four minutes. Arman was in school when the earthquake struck. His father rushed to the school to find the... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
New Christians are much like young mountain goats. In their precarious environment, one wrong move can send them plummeting to their deaths. The young mountain goats are particularly vulnerable because of their playfulness. They are unaware... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
