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Celebrity Scriptures – a Family Activity

BibleGateway.com, perhaps the largest (and we feel the best) online site having all the major Bible translations, recently published some of its usage statistics for 2013.  The site was visited...

Why the Spies?

Why the Spies?

What do your problems and the spies that we are told God sent into the Promised Land have in common?  For that matter, what does a book written fifty years ago by Allen Dulles, the first...

True Sincerity

“Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.”   ― George BurnsI love a good popular etymology as much as anyone, and the standard explanation for the word...

Seeing Shepherds

Seeing Shepherds

Seeing Shepherds, oil on canvas, by Daniel Bonnell  (c) 2010.  Reproduced with permission.I don't usually include discussions of paintings on this web site, but in this case I am happy to...

Before You Ask

You know how a compass works. The floating needle or direction arrow points toward the earth’s magnetic pole.   You also know what happens if the compass comes close to a local...

Three Components of Real Love

Three Components of Real Love

The Book of Luke tells the well-known story of how Jesus was invited to the home of a Pharisee named Simon.  While he was there, a woman who was a prostitute slipped into the house and, weeping...

New for a New Year

2014 finds us with many good things planned for the site. A new selection of books is up, with   new quotes, links and articles on the way.   Our site has been invited to become...

Our Top Ten Posts in 2013

Our Top Ten Posts in 2013

It seems that it is now de rigueur for blogs to give a list of the top 5, 10, or even 20 or more posts from the past year - those obtaining the highest number of pageviews or downloads.For our own...

Phone Home

Phone Home

The previous blog post, “A Direct Private Line,” is meant to be lightly written, and basic, but the points it makes are ones for which we can all be seriously thankful. I hope it gives...

A Direct Private Line

I was never in business, so the ways of the business world are often news to me.  Take, for example, when I found out that some businesses have a direct private line to the CEO that is made...

The Transformation Highway

The Transformation Highway

I owe the origin of this thought to Philip Shields who recently wrote “Learning is for Transformation – not just Information.”  It’s an important idea in...

The Taste of Honey

How do your words taste?   Normally we would say that words have sound rather than taste, of course, but there is a difference between the actual sound of a word and the effect it has on...