Faith

The Roll of the Dice

Is life all about chance? David Attenborough, in 2013’s Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates, tells us our ancestry is determined as much by chance as it is by any method of presupposition ...

In the 2014 television series Flash, a mishap at a supercollider zaps the hero with an unusual bolt of lightning. He transforms from an ordinary man to one with super speed. He becomes a Mighty Man, ...

The Spoils of Battle

During World War II, Adolph Hitler led Nazi Germany in an attempt to conquer all of Europe. He was nearly successful. He received a boon when the British army was evacuated at Dunkirk. The war ...

The Fortuitous Famine

No one likes to go hungry. By the same measure, we don’t like to live in antiquated housing, drive junker cars, or wear out-of-fashion clothing. It’s just not ...

Truth Is Stranger than Fiction

“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 ...

What’s Going On, God?

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 ...

Castaway Redeemed

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 ...

Setting the Stage

Grand stage productions don’t just happen. Visit Broadway, and the lights flash along the street, drawing us in. Inside the theaters, we find glamour and polish. Nothing is left undone. When the ...

Finding Our Heart in Cana

Galilee is one of the most beautiful places on the eastern border of the Mediterranean. In the time of Jesus, it was ruled by one of Herod’s sons. It was a hotbed of social dissent and economic ...

What Makes Our Heart Melt?

Chocolate has interesting properties. It’s rigid at room temperature, yet warm it just a bit, and it loses all form and shape. Chill it, and it becomes brittle and is easily shattered. Take a ...

Putting God into Our Circumstances

The circumstances make the man. We’ve heard that before. It’s part of the argument of nature versus nurture. Are we born into what we are, or does our upbringing dictate what we become? In ...

Pulling Up the Anchor

A ship in the ocean needs to be able to move freely, or it will never be able to reach its destination. It also needs to be able to drop anchor, to remain fixed in one location, so that it’s not ...

Our Place by the Sea

We see things differently when we’re at the sea. The waters calm us when the winds are gentle, and in the thrashing storm, we see a power greater than we are. We sense the awesomeness of our ...