Some vacations are not relaxing. We have no “chill” time, no mornings to put up our feet, and certainly no easing of the stress that’s daily fare in our work-a-day world.
A television travel ...
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Sometimes good stuff rubs off on us.
We don’t have to be especially brilliant. We can be in the right place at the right time, and things fall into place. It’s nothing we do, but rather the ...
Read more: The Special Blessing
In a British crime show, a con man who had duped multiple university investment funds and absconded with millions, did his time and wrote a successful book about it.
He made real and honest millions ...
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A school district on the coast of Texas had a rough time achieving success on state-mandated tests for several years in a row. They were on the verge of having their accreditation pulled, and they ...
Read more: God’s Horn of Oil
John Paul Mitchell Systems does $900 million a year in annual business. It was started by a man who sold newspapers and Christmas cards at ten to support his family, and who lived in a foster home as ...
Read more: Lifted to a Higher Level
Boiling down is a culinary term. Also called reducing, it means to boil a liquid in an uncovered pot until we boil away a portion of the liquid inside. We get a thicker, more intensely flavored ...
Read more: Boiling Down the Truth
Our world trains us up to desire the best it has to offer. We recognize faces on the movie screen, and we want to look like that. Beautiful mansions fill us with envy. We want our name in print, our ...
Read more: The Vanity of Riches
It depends on our eyes what we see.
For cats? Everything is viewed in monochromatic shades of blue and gray. Try a fly’s eyes. You’ll get a 360 degree view of everything all at once. A tarsier ...
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There are bears, and then there are bears. We have the cuddly ones we tuck our children in with at night, and then there are the ones that will eat us if they can find us, so that they can fatten up ...
Read more: The Bear and the Morning Sun
Christ is our champion. No one in the Christian faith can doubt that. It is in the very name we name ourselves. We are known as the ones who follow Christ, literally, ...
Read more: The Devil’s Day of Desolation
Several years ago, a very unusual movie became a box office success. In one scene, the main character, still a child, is being picked on by the school bullies, and his friend tells him to “Run, ...
Read more: The Sky Ran Away with the Earth
A white horse is the rarest beast of all. Because they are rare, they are revered in all cultures. In Greek mythology, Pegasus was a winged horse of palest white. Norse mythology portrays Odin riding ...
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A recent television show on home remodeling was all about a young mother rebounding from a divorce. She was determined to get back on her feet again. The designers cut a slogan out of sheet metal and ...
Read more: God’s Feast in the World’s Famine
Some vacations are not relaxing. We have no “chill” time, no mornings to put up our feet, and certainly no easing of the stress that’s daily fare in our work-a-day world.
A television travel ...
Read more: Our Relaxation Vacation
Sometimes good stuff rubs off on us.
We don’t have to be especially brilliant. We can be in the right place at the right time, and things fall into place. It’s nothing we do, but rather the ...
Read more: The Special Blessing
In a British crime show, a con man who had duped multiple university investment funds and absconded with millions, did his time and wrote a successful book about it.
He made real and honest millions ...
Read more: Working the System
A school district on the coast of Texas had a rough time achieving success on state-mandated tests for several years in a row. They were on the verge of having their accreditation pulled, and they ...
Read more: God’s Horn of Oil
John Paul Mitchell Systems does $900 million a year in annual business. It was started by a man who sold newspapers and Christmas cards at ten to support his family, and who lived in a foster home as ...
Read more: Lifted to a Higher Level
Boiling down is a culinary term. Also called reducing, it means to boil a liquid in an uncovered pot until we boil away a portion of the liquid inside. We get a thicker, more intensely flavored ...
Read more: Boiling Down the Truth
Our world trains us up to desire the best it has to offer. We recognize faces on the movie screen, and we want to look like that. Beautiful mansions fill us with envy. We want our name in print, our ...
Read more: The Vanity of Riches