Ask the guy in prison, and he’ll tell us he didn’t do the crime. Not even if he's guilty.
If we offer him the chance to work it off in a halfway house, he’s not interested. He’d be admitting ...
Read more: Guilty as Charged
A little wind can be a pleasant thing to experience. The gentle breeze caresses the field of flowers, bringing a pleasing aroma to our nostrils. The cooling effects of a summer zephyr washing our ...
Read more: The Wind of God
To put it simply, we are a visual race.
How would humanity survive if we were all blinded in a moment? We can glimpse a partial answer to that question in a 1951 sci-fi novel by John Wyndham called ...
Read more: Caught Up by the World
We’ve heard of the North Vietnamese prison camps from the mid-20th century. American soldiers and pilots were kept in small cells, confined without adequate light or sanitation, and unable to get ...
Read more: Our Slavery Bonds Cut Loose
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 ...
Read more: Filling Up Our Barns
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 ...
What is a god? By most people’s standards, it’s anything that has power over us. Do we give that power to our gods, or do they already have power over us?
One of the Ten Commandments entreats us ...
Read more: Self-Made Gods
Lightning can be very frightening. A person can be struck inside his or her home from a storm five miles away.
Scary, isn’t it? People in the American Midwest are advised not to stand by a window ...
Read more: The Lightning Strike of Christ
The lion is unequivocally the king of beasts. He stands proudly in the African plain, and when he roars, every other creature runs in fear.
There is no beast to equal the mighty lion.
Our Savior ...
It’s all about the grapes. Not real grapes, of course, but the blessings that seem to come in times of unexpected bounty, tumbling over us in exceeding excess.
That’s how life is, too, a ...
Read more: Bunches of Blessings
Boats are beautiful, especially sailboats. They raise their sails, they catch the wind, and they leap forward, masterpieces of perfection.
There is something sailboats do that reveals the care ...
Read more: Clearing Away the Cankers
Kings are rich beyond belief. The wealth of the countryside is theirs for the taking. In medieval England, even the deer in the fields belonged to the king.
Christians are heirs of the kingdom of ...
Read more: Heirs to the King
We live in a world of power brokers. They are the oligarchy, the privileged few who have the money and the authority to change the world for better…or for worse.
After the financial collapse of ...
Read more: Reigning with Christ
Ask the guy in prison, and he’ll tell us he didn’t do the crime. Not even if he's guilty.
If we offer him the chance to work it off in a halfway house, he’s not interested. He’d be admitting ...
Read more: Guilty as Charged
A little wind can be a pleasant thing to experience. The gentle breeze caresses the field of flowers, bringing a pleasing aroma to our nostrils. The cooling effects of a summer zephyr washing our ...
Read more: The Wind of God
To put it simply, we are a visual race.
How would humanity survive if we were all blinded in a moment? We can glimpse a partial answer to that question in a 1951 sci-fi novel by John Wyndham called ...
Read more: Caught Up by the World
We’ve heard of the North Vietnamese prison camps from the mid-20th century. American soldiers and pilots were kept in small cells, confined without adequate light or sanitation, and unable to get ...
Read more: Our Slavery Bonds Cut Loose
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 ...
Read more: Filling Up Our Barns
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 ...
What is a god? By most people’s standards, it’s anything that has power over us. Do we give that power to our gods, or do they already have power over us?
One of the Ten Commandments entreats us ...
Read more: Self-Made Gods