Paint the rainbow.
That’s from the Skittles commercial. It means to put joy into our lives using the little candy treat. They come in a rainbow of colors, and if we share them to enough people, ...
Crib.
Three definitions, three meanings:
A bed for a baby, one with high sides for protection.
A trough-like structure for feeding farm animals.
A cheat-sheet for a test.
There’s more. Crib ...
Call it homework: the thing we’re expected to get accomplished before the next stage of our project can commence.
A number of years ago there was a home remodeling show called Trading Spaces. In ...
Saturday or Sunday. The seventh day of the week or the first. Giving God the Sabbath. What does it mean to us?
What if our days off are on Tuesday or Wednesday? Can we justify working on the ...
Waste.
To give up something useful; to use something carelessly, making it useless to anyone else. We do it all the time, tossing out that third slice of toast because no one wants it, or driving ...
We love the idea of the genie in the bottle. The little dude with all the power to grant our every wish is released by us, and in gratitude, he offers us our fondest hopes and dreams at no cost to ...
God desires to dwell with his people. It is the very reason he created us. We read of his intent in Isaiah 57:15:
“For thus says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy; I ...
We are beings of material construction. Flesh, blood, and bone. We breathe in air, feel sensation across our skin, and are crushed with emotion. The things we maintain around us matter, because they ...
We know the story of the Widow’s Mite, how Jesus watched those who came into the Temple, and how he gave more credit to the one who gave of everything she had than to those who threw in vast sums. ...
Sometimes it’s good to be angry.
We all know the story of the World Trade Center and the terrorists who took them down. We’ve seen the pictures of the Pentagon violated the same day. It’s the ...
Optimism is all about viewing things in a positive manner. Pessimism is a whole different ball game. An optimist will see a baseball through his classic car’s windshield as a victory. That chipped ...
Life is like being on a NASCAR track. There are a hundred lightning-quick cars barreling along all around us, going just as fast as we are, and if we take our eyes off them for a moment, we can be ...
What Christ do we love?
The one in the manger? Or maybe we carry an image of Jesus calling the children unto him. Then there’s the hand of our Savior healing the eyes of the blind man. We can’t ...
Paint the rainbow.
That’s from the Skittles commercial. It means to put joy into our lives using the little candy treat. They come in a rainbow of colors, and if we share them to enough people, ...
Crib.
Three definitions, three meanings:
A bed for a baby, one with high sides for protection.
A trough-like structure for feeding farm animals.
A cheat-sheet for a test.
There’s more. Crib ...
Call it homework: the thing we’re expected to get accomplished before the next stage of our project can commence.
A number of years ago there was a home remodeling show called Trading Spaces. In ...
Saturday or Sunday. The seventh day of the week or the first. Giving God the Sabbath. What does it mean to us?
What if our days off are on Tuesday or Wednesday? Can we justify working on the ...
Waste.
To give up something useful; to use something carelessly, making it useless to anyone else. We do it all the time, tossing out that third slice of toast because no one wants it, or driving ...
We love the idea of the genie in the bottle. The little dude with all the power to grant our every wish is released by us, and in gratitude, he offers us our fondest hopes and dreams at no cost to ...
God desires to dwell with his people. It is the very reason he created us. We read of his intent in Isaiah 57:15:
“For thus says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy; I ...
