When we read that Jesus is the Water of Life we think of all the usual things that water does: quenches thirst, cleanses, refreshes, makes life possible. We draw a parallel between those functions and...
The First Family, George W. and Laura Bush, have always included a scripture verse on their Christmas cards. Laura Bush had to change the verse on the card in light of the Sept 11th tragedy. What vers...
The AP carried a very sad Spring break story. One person died and several others got sick after a tequila-drinking competition in Santo Domingo. The man who died was the winner of the contest. Rica...
There is much to be learned from reading epitaphs. There is a wonderful epitaph on the grave of a Patience Holmes. It is so popular that it has been used on many other gravestones in New England. Pati...
God gradually reveals His truth, like a flower unfolding. It is not like the night-blooming cereus that opens only in the darkness and is seen by few. It is not like the century plant that opens so ra...
If you travel to Canada’s Thousand Islands region you can visit Boldt Castle, or what is left of it. ...
Mignon McLaughlin wrote, "One of life's few really reliable pleasures is to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week." That fits with what one grandfather said about his grandchildren: "I ...
A remorseful man, wanting to reassure his skeptical wife, said: "I'm going to make a 360-degree turn." ...
On the twelfth of September 1683, the Turkish army was finally turned away from the city of Vienna. Among the things they left behind were the cannons with which they had bombarded the city through th...
Sacred Stream Dr. Jacob Chamberlain, an early missionary to India recalls that while preaching to a group who had come to bathe in the "sacred stream" of the Ganges, a man joined them who had crawled ...
"All groups of human beings have a tendency to be exclusive; they want to know who is inside and who is out. So they adopt identity markers—visible practices of dress, vocabulary or behavior that serv...
Here's an illustration from the new movie Intolerable Cruelty, courtesy of MovieMinistry.com: The Big Idea: Love is good. Scene Setup: Miles Massey has finally succumbed to the enemy - a woman. Hasti...
The woman's husband had been slipping in and out of a coma for several months, yet she had stayed by his bedside every single day. One day, when he came to, he motioned for her to come nearer....
True love is a self-sacrificial expression of life-giving energy, forgiveness, empathy and compassion toward any and all things within our world....
A Chinese artist was commissioned to portray the parable of the prodigal son. So he chose that part of the story where the wayward boy returns home after having wasted his resources in reckles...
Jacob, age 92, and Rebecca, age 89, living in Florida, are excited about their decision to get married. They go for a stroll to discuss the wedding and on the way they pass a drugstore. Jacob suggests...
Be sure to speak the truth you would like to have played out in your life. Remember it was words that brough all of creation into being....