• How much good can be done in 28.4 years? That was the question I asked myself when faced with a stunning statistic. I have played an online pool game that allows you to play against people from all over the world. The operators of this game run a ticker across the top of the screen that gives real-time statistics.… [Continue Reading]

  • I don’t know about your family, but when our family reads the Bible together, it can get interesting. When the Israelites reached Mount Sinai, one of our children provided the thunder sound effects. When we read about the people grumbling and complaining in the desert, my kids were as indignant as Moses. When we came… [Continue Reading]

  • If you “love your privacy” you may not like this article. Why? Because no one of us has any privacy! Our theme Scripture for today establishes this truth for every believer. God “inspired” the writer of Hebrews to tell us we have no privacy. Hear it. “Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud… [Continue Reading]

  • The expression above is a metaphor that (from all I can learn) comes from the world of gambling. However, we use it often in a totally different way to describe life situations that we all face rather frequently. Things like family crises or economic tight spots or serious medical problems (like the surgery I have… [Continue Reading]

  • Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted? And when you eat and when you drink, do you not… [Continue Reading]