Historian Randall Balmer tells a story about the time he and his wife took ballroom dancing lessons. They learned to count out the patterns of steps and tried to coordinate their feet, while at the same time remembering the sequence […]
Famed World War II tank commander General George Patton said, “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” Courage is in fact something that can be held on to. In fact, Jesus said it is something that we can even […]
The Bible says that as Jesus walked along, he saw a man who was born blind. And his disciples, who were hungry for information, asked, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Whenever we […]
Ever feel like the world is against you? No matter how hard you work the odds are against you? That’s exactly how the Israelites felt under Pharaoh. Exodus 5 says: Then Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are […]
Some of the goals we all have are to seize the day, live in the moment, and to not let worries keep us from living joy-filled lives. But worries seem to plague most of our waking moments. Jesus understood that […]
The Bible says that there are some little creatures that we can learn from, and though they are very little, they are very wise. It is in the summer, when the grass is green, and the harvest is plentiful and […]
Henry Kissinger, in his book The Whitehouse Years, tells of a Harvard professor who had given an assignment and now was collecting the papers. He handed them back the next day and at the bottom of one was written, “Is this […]
Have you ever had to lead a group of people to a place you’ve never been yourself? It’s stressful! You’re not exactly confident that you won’t make a wrong turn. You’re not sure what the parking will be like. You […]
