In the old detective stories the detectives would bring a suspect in. then one of the detectives would say to another one, "Give him the third degree." That man would then start interrogating the suspect. The other day I heard on an old radio show where the...
Do you feel like you are being threshed like wheat? Are there so many things going on in your life that you think you can’t bear one more bad thing? Read what the prophet Isaiah wrote: "The farmer knows just what to do, for God has given him understanding. He doesn’t...
"For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline." (2 Timothy 1:7) Uh oh. It was beginning to get bumpy. Fifteen or twenty thousand feet above the earth, our commuter plane was experiencing turbulence. “Everyone, please...
An advertisement recently reminded me how important it is to make a will. The advertisement mentioned some quite dire effects that can happen to a family when a member dies without leaving a legal will. It seems that legal costs and added taxes could eat into what...
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.” John 16:33 If I live to be a hundred there are some things I will never understand. Why do some people live, and some die? Why do some people have debilitating diseases and others, perfect health? Why...
HTML clipboard Quiz time, folks!!! Who invented the dynamite? Do I hear the answer ...Alfred Nobel! Yes, it is him alright. In fact in 1867, Nobel received U.S. patent number 78317 for his dynamic invention. That this explosive instead of being used peacefully for...
A friend of mine was worried. He thought I’d lost my head. He came to me one evening, and this is what he said: “I know you follow Jesus. Your faith is very strong. I think you’ve lost your reason! How could you be so wrong? How can you follow Jesus, when you know...
"and he said, 'Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD.' And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but...
There were numbered, random dots all over the page. They had no form and no substance and they made no sense. They were just scattered dots on a blank page and they had to be connected to reveal the picture hidden in them. I can remember bending all my energy and...
It was December when we visited the beautiful country of New Zealand. Christmastime, to be exact. I knew that New Zealanders had reverse seasons from those who live in the northern hemisphere, and this was precisely why New Zealand was my number one choice of where to...