1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.Yesterday I was reading about two pastors and their wives who were arrested in Iran about 9...
She was waiting for her mom there in the drugstore, standing near the cash register with her eyes glued to the candy shelves. She was maybe 5 or 6. For that little girl, paradise was just a few feet and a few dimes away.Different times, different things. When we are...
It has been over a month now since a powerful magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan. The confirmed death toll is over 13,000 and continues to rise. In the midst of all the horror stories are occasional heroic tales of survival and rescue. One of the...
Bob joined us just before Christmas of 2010. He was a stray cat living outside the office where Ginny worked. She and her co-workers kept him and the other strays fed. The weather grew cold. Ginny lost her job. "I'm not leaving him!" She said to me. Bob came home for...
Luke 18: 2, 3 "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, grant me justice against my adversary." NIVWould you like some cheese with that whine Hoss? Whine,...
Let's take a moment to consider the kinds of dangers that a fisherman must face on a daily basis:Because the ocean is prone to sudden, thick fog, fishermen who set out from their fishing vessels in dories are constantly at risk of losing sight of their boats. In...
How do you build a better world? That is a question that has puzzled mankind for centuries. Many things have been tried. Some have helped and some haven’t. I think, though, that I was given a part of the answer just the other day.My brother had just cleaned out his...