"As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand." Jeremiah 18:6b“Hmm, this flower should be growing like crazy, with all this rain lately”, I mused. Sure enough, it had been raining and raining, so with plenty of summer sunshine to go with it, the plant...
The following is reported to be a true story that says a lot about Japanese products and their quality standards.It seems that IBM decided to have some parts manufactured in Japan as a trial project. In the specifications, they specified that they would only accept...
"…. He prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more." John 15:2A few years ago we had hurricanes just three weeks apart. At our home, the first storm ripped off the nails and wire cords that held the thick bouganvilla vine into the concrete....
"The righteous keep moving forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger." Job 17:9 NLTAs a young boy, clean hands were important to me-a trait that has obviously been passed down to my grandson. As he attempts to master eating with a fork and...
There's a story told about a man who had a huge boulder in his front yard. He grew weary of this big, unattractive stone in the center of his lawn, so he decided to take advantage of it and turn it into an object of art. He went to work on it with hammer and chisel,...
(The Lord God says) "And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes and be careful...
James 4:1-3 "What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask...