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
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 ...
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
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
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 ...
Read more: The Dance of the Paperclip
Anyone churched in the Scriptures knows the story of the mustard seed. It is the smallest of seeds, yet it grows into a mighty tree, with massive, spreading ...
Read more: The Smallest Seed
Gold is the monetary standard of the world. Countries across the globe stockpile the precious metal, using it as a stabilizing force for local ...
Read more: Our Gods of Gold
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
While playing, children use a shorthand language of their own, with words and phrases that refer to events hundreds of years in the past.
London Bridge is Falling Down dates to the 16th century ...
Children love that childhood game, Hide and Seek. One person counts with eyes closed, and the others run to some hidden spot, trying not to be ...
Read more: Hide and Seek
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
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 ...
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
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
