Simon and Andrew toiled all night and caught nothing. As they cleaned their dirty, empty nets on the shore with the rising sun, embarrassment hit them. Not one fish was there to bring home for breakfast! “What was all that work for anyway?” they must have thought. It...
About 3000 years ago, there lived a man named Samson, an Israelite whom God blessed as the strongest man who ever lived. Israel, which had been doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord, had fallen out of divine protection into the hands of the Philistines, who...
This Good Friday morning, I read from the Gospels all the events that took place the day before the arrest and crucifixion of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Although I have read these portions of Scripture numerous times (Matt. 23-26, Mark 13-14, Luke 22-23, John 13-17),...
Once upon a time in America, “blue laws” prohibited businesses from opening on Sundays. It wasn’t that long ago! Imagine: neither Chick-fil-A nor In-N-Out was available on a Sunday! What would we do… STARVE!! This seems almost laughable to modern...
“God has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 The book of Ecclesiastes amazes me, mainly because of who wrote it: King Solomon, to whom the God of heaven and earth came in a...
Have you ever heard of “the doldrums”? No, it’s not a funny name you can call your friends! In the ocean near the equator, the doldrums are windless waters, without current and in ancient days, without hope of escape. Now we have engined ships that...
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