The Apostle Paul marveled at the spiritual blessings that belong to those who are in Christ. Among them are redemption…I am a cancer survivor. I had prostate surgery in March of 2017 and just marked the milestone of being 7 years cancer-free. While I celebrate that, it’s not something I take for granted
Read MoreThe late Bob Benson is one of my favorite storytellers. In one of his most familiar stories, he recalls a time when as an unmarried young man, he went to an old-fashioned church picnic. Benson was running late and when he got ready to pack his food, all he could find in the refrigerator was a piece of baloney and two slices of stale bread.
Read MoreHave you ever heard of an omakase restaurant? It’s a unique Japanese tradition where the customer leaves it up to the chef to choose his/her meal. Omakase is a Japanese word that translates, “I’ll leave it up to you.” It comes from the root, “to entrust.”
Read MoreThis week is very significant to the nation of Israel. 72 years ago - May 15, 1948, to be exact - Israel once again became a nation. And it happened against all odds.
Read MoreHave you, in your educational experience, ever had a really, really hard test? Something that was almost unfair in its difficulty? I read some time back of a college student who faced that in a big way. He was taking a class on ornithology – the study of birds. And the final was coming up which he knew was going to be a bear because the professor had a reputation for giving extremely difficult tests.
Read MoreThe following account appeared in both Reuters and in the New York Times Magazine: Earlier this year (1996), the dazed crew of a Japanese trawler were plucked out of the Sea of Japan clinging to the wreckage of their sunken ship.
Their rescue, however, was followed by immediate imprisonment once authorities questioned the sailors on their ship’s loss. To a man they claimed that a cow, falling out of a clear blue sky, had struck the trawler amidships…
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