Years ago, as I was working to earn my accounting degree, a sage accounting professor gave me some practical advice: “If you are having trouble falling asleep at night, just pick up your government accounting textbook. Start reading it, and you will fall asleep in only a few minutes.”  I ...

My oldest brother was a hero to me. And now he had joined the Air Force. It thrilled me to see his picture in uniform. A couple of years later, my third oldest brother joined the army. And I was proud again. The USA was fighting the Korean War. “Those ...

The people who had never been in a boat had now lived five months on the water. Their ship home (the ark) finally rested on the mountains of Ararat. But they could not disembark yet. Water was everywhere. They would have to wait for the shoreline to recede. Noah tested ...

Imagine that you are Noah or Noah’s wife. You have persevered through the long time of building the ark. Your faith remained constant through that time. It was hard to understand how you could make this gigantic boat, and very few people bothered to ask what you were doing.   Just ...

Famine is a horrible calamity. We can conjure up images of starving children, hopeless-looking parents, and hundreds of people stealing just to get a bite of food. Hungry people die on the streets, and nations and communities are decimated by starvation. The air is hot and dry. It’s hard to ...