Salvation

The Unknown Caller

We screen our calls. Modern technology allows us to see the name on the other end of the line, and we can choose to accept or discard the call. If they refuse to reveal who they are, we can block ...

All About the Love

Small children are cute. That’s science. It has nothing to do with whether they look like their mother or father. It’s about ratio. Yes, ratio, that math concept we left behind in sixth grade. ...

Playing With Fire

We know one rotting fruit can destroy an entire bag. The decay leaps to the good oranges, and one by one they succumb to the devastation. If we don’t remove the rotten part, soon everything will ...

Unclaimed Freight

Abandoned. That’s the very idea of unclaimed freight. Sometimes it’s as simple as a company not wanting to ship an item twice and refusing returned merchandise. Other times the packaging has ...

We love the story of the loaves and the fishes. The boy offering all he had to Jesus, only to have it multiplied to feed a crowd of thousands, fills us with an awesome respect for the majestic power ...

God’s Eraser

We know what an eraser does. It removes one thing to replace it with another. A child in a classroom gets angry at her teacher. She scribbles, “I hate you,” on her homework paper. The next ...

The Market Value of a Soul

Market value is what something’s worth on the open market. In other words, what are people willing to pay for what we have to sell? An auction tells the truth of the situation. The market value of ...

Pierced on a Pole

We poke holes in lots of things. A seamstress pokes holes in fabric to bind the cloth with thread. A wildcatter hopes for oil from his holes in the ground. A teenager wants holes in his ears or nose ...

Finding the Light

Kittens are born blind. So are puppies, and a host of other animals. They can’t see, because it’s not time for them to use their eyes. They still need to mature before their eyes begin to ...

Our Free Gift

Nothing in life comes free. That means we make tradeoffs, whether in our time or our money, or in the emphasis we have to make on different areas of our life. We might ask God for a bigger house, ...

Sweet Water from Bitter Springs

Britta has made a fortune creating sweet water from bitter. No matter what comes out of our tap, we can strain it through a Britta filter, and it runs across our tongue as sweet as the day is long. ...

A Change of Heart

Some people literally have a change of heart. Tony Huesman received his in 1978 at age 20. John McCafferty got his new heart in 1982. Former Vice President Dick Cheney joined this exclusive club in ...

Coming Clean with Christ

Coming clean can have multiple meanings. We throw a muddied towel in the washer, and when we pull it out, we check to see if it’s come ...