568) Too Many Distractions (part two)
(...continued) During a major league baseball game a few years back, a dog somehow got out onto the field and began wandering around, casually sniffing here and…
(...continued) During a major league baseball game a few years back, a dog somehow got out onto the field and began wandering around, casually sniffing here and…
Tom Wolfe is a best-selling American author. As a young man he worked for a newspaper. Then he wrote ten non-fiction books. He then wrote four…
(...continued) There are other similar verses. In John chapter 14 Jesus says, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father…
Warner Sallman (1898-1968), Christ at Heart's Door, 1942 An unlocked and open door is very inviting. We once had some next door neighbors who…
(...continiued) Grandma Nell’s choice to die with forgiveness rather than bitterness directly changed the lives of her doctor and her daughter. It also had an indirect…
Ruth and Bernice were unmarried sisters and members of a church I used to serve. They were in their 80’s when I knew them and had lived together…
“I don’t get mad, I get even,” is what we used to say on the playground, trying to sound tough as we plotted our revenge. The Bible,…
Randy Alcorn has written several books on heaven. The following piece is adapted from his blog at www.epm.org “Will there be coffee in Heaven?” Someone may say, “I…
Stephen Hawking as a brilliant and healthy young man. In 1963, when he was twenty-one, Hawking was diagnosed with ALS and given just two years to live. It might be…
Robert Jastow (1925-2008) was an American astronomer and physicist. He was a leading NASA scientist, popular author, and futurist. He said that although he was…