The tale of the three blind mice is an integral part of our entertainment culture. From Disney (Old King Cole, 1933) to James Bond (Dr. No, 1962), it is stamped on our ...
Read more: Three Blind Mice
We’ve all seen the cartoon where a comical character meets something that is unexpected and very frightening. The cartoon character’s response? His eyes pop out of his head, his cap pops two feet ...
Read more: A Cartoon Catastrophe
America is a now culture. We find it difficult to plant a seed and wait for it to grow. Instant coffee; microwaves; drive-thru meals. We want it now.
However, some things need to fully mature. Cut a ...
Read more: Our RIPE God
All it takes is one bad apple to spoil a barrel of the freshest fruit. It is as a snake that must be removed from its head. We have to be willing to cut away the bad in order to hang onto the ...
Read more: The Head of the Snake
At the end of summer, we enjoy the benefits of all the hard work we’ve done. One of the joys of September is to delve into a WATERMELON feast. The fruit is ripe, the flesh is sweet, and it has come ...
Read more: Our WATERMELON God
There is an old song that says we all work hard for our money. Whether we do manual labor, working our physical muscles; or we are in a cerebral occupation, working our mental muscles, the work we do ...
Read more: The Worker Is Worthy of His Hire
Seventy percent of the earth’s surface is covered by water. Ocean currents move across the globe, redistributing warm, equatorial waters, and in the process they keep temperatures livable for ...
Read more: Our OCEAN God
The snooze button on an alarm clock is much more than five extra minutes of sleep. That little brown or beige or white button is in reality a second chance; it’s our opportunity to postpone the ...
Read more: The Devil’s Snooze Button
We’ve all had to wait for something. The clerk scans the groceries tediously slowly; our line at the drive-thru sits motionless while the ones on either side zip along; the delivery that ...
The phrase God is Dead, by noted German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first appeared in a German magazine in ...
Read more: The Third Hour of the Day
A hobo found an old oil lamp by the side of the railroad tracks. Picking it up, he pictured it lighting his way on a deep summer’s night past the stones and roots that lined the trails near the ...
Read more: The Terrible and Awesome Day of the Lord
God’s Word tells us we are to be a people set apart. What does that mean? Are we to look different? Act differently? Live in a gated enclave? Perhaps it is something else, ...
Read more: A People Set Apart
The tale of the three blind mice is an integral part of our entertainment culture. From Disney (Old King Cole, 1933) to James Bond (Dr. No, 1962), it is stamped on our ...
Read more: Three Blind Mice
We’ve all seen the cartoon where a comical character meets something that is unexpected and very frightening. The cartoon character’s response? His eyes pop out of his head, his cap pops two feet ...
Read more: A Cartoon Catastrophe
America is a now culture. We find it difficult to plant a seed and wait for it to grow. Instant coffee; microwaves; drive-thru meals. We want it now.
However, some things need to fully mature. Cut a ...
Read more: Our RIPE God
All it takes is one bad apple to spoil a barrel of the freshest fruit. It is as a snake that must be removed from its head. We have to be willing to cut away the bad in order to hang onto the ...
Read more: The Head of the Snake
At the end of summer, we enjoy the benefits of all the hard work we’ve done. One of the joys of September is to delve into a WATERMELON feast. The fruit is ripe, the flesh is sweet, and it has come ...
Read more: Our WATERMELON God
There is an old song that says we all work hard for our money. Whether we do manual labor, working our physical muscles; or we are in a cerebral occupation, working our mental muscles, the work we do ...
Read more: The Worker Is Worthy of His Hire
Seventy percent of the earth’s surface is covered by water. Ocean currents move across the globe, redistributing warm, equatorial waters, and in the process they keep temperatures livable for ...
Read more: Our OCEAN God