“You have got to be kidding!”
How many times have we said that? What we mean is that something is out of the ordinary. It’s beyond belief. It simply boggles our ...
Read more: Truth Is Stranger than Fiction
Our homes are a buffer zone.
We can close our windows in the stormiest of weather, and as long as the power company keeps the lines up and functioning, we’re warm as toast, and snugger than a bug ...
Read more: Caught Up in the Winds of Change
Let’s start off with a lesson on prosperity. We find our reference in Psalm 50:10:
“For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.”
These are God’s words, spoken to ...
Read more: All the Cattle on the Hills
It’s a farmer thing. Dairymen, too. We want our barns to be full.
Now, to keep a barn constantly full isn’t sensible. We want them full, but to maintain them that way all the time is to have our ...
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It’s when we begin beating our head against a brick wall that we realize the truth of our situation.
There’s nothing we can do to change the facts of life as we know it.
We want to slam our ...
Read more: What’s Going On, God?
Ancient mariners were a superstitious lot.
To them, there were gods everywhere, on land, in the sky, and underneath the sea. To espouse faith in these gods was to invoke their help and protection in ...
Read more: The Figurehead of Christ
God is all about choice.
We laugh, and we imagine the Great White Throne Judgment that happens just before the lost are thrown into the lake of fire. God sits with a firebrand in his hand, and those ...
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London is an age-old city. Above ground it’s a glittering metropolis, a fascinating mix of the old and new, ranging from ancient Roman ruins to the latest in high-tech buildings constructed to the ...
Read more: Inside Our Case of Exquisite Dreams
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
Knockoffs are sometimes pretty good. We can’t afford Calvin Klein, so we scour the shelves for the closest thing.
In their fine print, eBay says most Calvin Klein products sold on their ...
Castaway has two meanings.
Merriam-Webster tells us that a castaway object has been thrown away. It’s rejected as something unwanted or of inferior quality.
However, Webster’s also tells us ...
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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
The auctioneer rattles off his enticements in a sing-song voice, tempting us to partake of his wares…
Come on…who’ll give me five…only five for a great deal…going once, twice…do I see ...
Read more: Sold Under Sin