To throw out the baby with the bathwater is to throw away what’s good with what is not. It means, simply, to make a clean sweep. Everything goes; nothing stays; we are going to start afresh at any ...
Read more: The Baby’s Bathwater
In Jilin, China, winter temperatures can easily drop below minus 25 Celsius. Yet, fishermen still ply their trade on a daily ...
Read more: Under the Ice
There is a difference between a contract and a promise. A contract is a legal way of forcing the participants into performing certain deeds or obligations. Sometimes they are necessary for the smooth ...
Read more: When the Promises Don’t Come
We all want to be victors for Jesus. We come to Christ, we give our hearts to him, and in that infusion of peace and love, we feel like Rocky, poised to take on the world. We don our boxing gloves, ...
A canoe is designed to slip easily through the water. However, waves can just as easily upset the slender craft. If we want to have a pleasurable canoeing experience, we need to find smooth ...
Read more: The Smooth Water
We all have parents and grandparents, aunts or uncles, people who have come before us. When these treasured people come to the end of their lives, we have to deal with the things they’ve collected ...
Read more: A Trunk of Junk
Spring is a time of new life. The lamb walks at its mother’s side. Baby birds sing in their nests. Leaves shimmer with the bright green of first ...
Read more: Our TENDER God
Spring can be a beautiful time of year, but it is also a time of fear in many parts of the United States. Not only does more than the usual amount of rain fall, but winter’s snowmelt fills rivers ...
Read more: High Water
Play with a magnet sometime. Hover it over a pile of paperclips, and watch the paperclips dance along the tabletop. Get it too near, and those shiny pieces of metal will rise from their prone ...
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Sometimes it is good to have a short memory. When someone does us wrong, we are told to forgive and forget. However, can we? The forgetting part? Is it possible?
We are taught that if we ...
Years ago a sports mantra told us to “work through the pain,” that if we quit when the going got tough, we were weak, and we didn’t deserve the winner’s ...
Read more: No Pain, No Gain
A seed contains the necessary nutrients to ensure a successful start to life. However, once those nutrients are used up, the emerging plant must be able to draw sustenance from its surrounding ...
Read more: Our FERTILE God
To throw out the baby with the bathwater is to throw away what’s good with what is not. It means, simply, to make a clean sweep. Everything goes; nothing stays; we are going to start afresh at any ...
Read more: The Baby’s Bathwater
In Jilin, China, winter temperatures can easily drop below minus 25 Celsius. Yet, fishermen still ply their trade on a daily ...
Read more: Under the Ice
There is a difference between a contract and a promise. A contract is a legal way of forcing the participants into performing certain deeds or obligations. Sometimes they are necessary for the smooth ...
Read more: When the Promises Don’t Come
We all want to be victors for Jesus. We come to Christ, we give our hearts to him, and in that infusion of peace and love, we feel like Rocky, poised to take on the world. We don our boxing gloves, ...
A canoe is designed to slip easily through the water. However, waves can just as easily upset the slender craft. If we want to have a pleasurable canoeing experience, we need to find smooth ...
Read more: The Smooth Water
We all have parents and grandparents, aunts or uncles, people who have come before us. When these treasured people come to the end of their lives, we have to deal with the things they’ve collected ...
Read more: A Trunk of Junk
