A loud explosion interrupted President John Tyler’s quiet cruise on the new steam warship Princeton. One of the ship’s guns had suddenly exploded. When the smoke had cleared, several of the prominent guests on board, including the president’s secretary of state and secretary of the Navy, were dead. Tyler would Read more…
Some of the best Christmas music invites us to listen. In “Do You Hear What I Hear?”, a lamb invites a shepherd boy to listen to a song high above the trees, then a king pleads with his subjects to listen to his message about a Child sleeping in the Read more…
It doesn’t take a national declaration for us to give thanks. Sometimes it takes a little desperation. In 1620 when the Pilgrims stepped off the Mayflower at Provincetown in Cape Cod, they were more than 220 miles off course. They had planned to land at the mouth of the Hudson Read more…
Sometimes, our lives are thrown for a tailspin and circumstances suddenly spiral beyond our control. We long to return to our established sense of normalcy. We long for the routine over the revolutionary, the planned over the impromptu.
Why does God insist upon having us experience comfort-zone-breaking dilemmas?
Many of you Baby Boomers remember Dr. Richard Kimble. He was a fictitious TV character who was accused as the murderer of his wife. He insisted the crime was committed by a one-armed man. They tried him in court, and he was convicted, even though he was innocent. On his Read more…
Q. You’ve stated in one of your Newsletters that one of the reasons God allows suffering is to teach us to pray. Whenever I pray about my situation, nothing happens. Why doesn’t God answer my prayers and change my circumstances? A. I am sure it is difficult for you to Read more…
Most of us have heard the term “Murphy’s Law,” which is better stated, “If anything can go wrong, it will!” The term was alleged to be born at Edwards Air Force Base’s North Base in 1949. Captain Edward A. Murphy was an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981. This Read more…