On Monday, in Lessons From the Classroom, Part 18, I told the story how God guided me to the position of interim French Consultant for my school board, and as September of that school year approached, I became excited for my new job.You see, I had been contemplating...
Something very unusual happened that Sunday morning in mid-December. I had just finished writing a devotional about an extraordinary business that I was blessed to have visited four months earlier, and I couldn't shake off the feeling that I had to send the story to...
“The GREYHOUND had been thrashing about in the north Atlantic storm for over a week. Its canvas sails were ripped, and the wood on one side of the ship had been torn away and splintered. The sailors had little hope of survival, but they manually worked the pumps,...
"He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake." (Psalms 23:3b, NIV2)We all face the same problem: we don’t always like the “right paths”. Those “no admittance” rocky ways look much more tempting than the admissible paths. Let me explain.A couple of years ago...
It was Homecoming for the area high school. The home football team was excited about playing a game to a larger-than-usual home crowd. Many former students had returned to renew old acquaintances and to check out the well-being of the school. Several in the stands...
Icelanders have been utilizing their abundance of geothermal energy for many good causes. Not only do they use this energy to generate electricity, to heat their homes, and to fill their hot water tanks, they also utilize it to heat greenhouses for the purpose of...
"If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit." (Matt 15:14 NIV)We humans, especially in this day and age, don't like the term "obedience". For some reason such a word angers us and fills us with discontent.For example, how would we feel if local...
