How about doing the New Year’s Resolution thing different this year? Here’s a New Year Planning Tool that’s easy, quick, but profoundly powerful in resetting your course in life. ♦ So here it comes again. Another New Year and another opportunity… Read More ›
Holidays
What About the Christmas Star?
What’s the truth about the Christmas star? Was this iconic symbol of the birth of Christ really a new star, a comet, aligned planets, a nova or supernova? Have you considered perhaps another option? ♦ We put star ornaments on our… Read More ›
The Yellow Kite
In this season of hope, a touching story of answered prayer when hope runs out. ♦ A young child’s small request causes a mother to not give up on life. I read this short story every year at Christmas time… Read More ›
The Preposterous Christmas Story
There’s just one problem for all of us in dealing with the preposterous story of the birth of Christ: it’s true. ♦ In our modern culture many will summarize the life of Jesus as the wise rabbi who preached and taught… Read More ›
Thanksgiving – an Economic Story
You know the Pilgrim story about the first Thanksgiving. Did you ever hear it as a lesson in human nature and economics? ♦ We all know the Thanksgiving story about the Pilgrims and their first bountiful harvest of 1621. We are… Read More ›
Proof of Easter’s Truth
Every year the case for the Resurrection of Christ is questioned. Let’s get past speculation and deal with facts, both real and even circumstantial. The proof points are overwhelming. ♦ They should teach this stuff in school. Not to promote religion,… Read More ›
Can You Believe This?
Do you believe in coincidences? How about miracles? How about in a God who loves us and sometimes shows us in uncanny, mysterious ways? ♦ Have you ever had something happen that goes beyond coincidence? An event or circumstances that line… Read More ›
Oh, Yeah, It’s Easter Time
Easter is approaching. Oddly, this means different things to different people. As for Jesus, He approached this season, and the culmination of final events in His life, very curiously and deliberately. ♦ Depending on your locale, sometime between Spring Break and… Read More ›
Be Like Valentine & Jesus
Valentine’s Day is almost too easy these days. The retailers make it so. At least for those men somewhat paying attention. What’s it got to do with Jesus? ♦ Valentine’s Day is this Sunday. This year men have to think about… Read More ›
A Christmas Miracle
A touching story of a prolific American author’s own most wondrous Christmas. ♦ Taylor Caldwell wrote many novels throughout her career. This one short Christmas story has always touched me greatly for its elements of financial fear, selflessness, a child’s… Read More ›
Mary, Did You Know?
Have you ever considered the situation of Mary, the young mother of Jesus? Imagine the fear, the wonder, the uncertainty, the hopeful expectation. Did she know what was really happening? Reconsider her story voiced in a beautiful song. ◊ It… Read More ›
So What About Hanukkah?
Is it my imagination or do we just not hear as much “Happy Hanukkah” these days? And what’s the real story behind Hanukkah anyway? ♦ I remember as a kid how we used to say “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!” everywhere… Read More ›