The ocean is beautiful. Visit a beach on a sunny day, and the water stretches unbroken into the distance, blue and serene. We want to walk along the shore, grateful for the handiwork of God and the ...
Read more: Launched into Greatness
Jesus came to this world to redeem men’s souls. However, Jesus had a practical side. He knew that to reach men spiritually, he had to first touch their humanity.
The poor and the hurting ...
Earthquakes are never good for humanity, except for one that rocked Turkey in 1999.
Turkey and Greece maintained an outspoken feud, with the Greek foreign minister calling the Turks “thieves and ...
Read more: Joy Out of Trouble
Does it matter who we are seen with? How important is it to protect our image?
In Mark Chapter 2 Matthew had called together the local crowd for a celebration. He was giving up the tax-collecting ...
The mountains of western Massachusetts are littered with waterfalls. Most flow year round, and they are beautiful.
However, let the rains come, and they become gushing behemoths that will awe and ...
Read more: God’s Crystal River
We love to get even.
Take World War II for example. Europe was being ripped apart by the tyranny of Hitler. The other side of the world faced decimation by a virulent Japanese military. The United ...
Read more: Taking Our Hand Off the Sword
From the Bird Flu to SARS, to Mad Cow Disease and carcinogens leaking from our plastic water bottles, the fear of devastating illness is something we can never get away from.
Thousands of patients ...
A splinter in a child’s fingers.
On the scale of world events, that splinter doesn’t matter even the smallest amount. There are starving children in Third-World countries with distended bellies ...
Read more: Unimportant Matters
