I owe.  I owe.  It’s off to work I go. It’s a cute little rhyme and it makes us chuckle because many of us can identify with it; but, at the root of that comment lies a sad truth…someone continues to spend more than he or she makes.  At the ...

Teachers don’t just teach facts, they nurture souls for life. In honor of all the teachers – in homeschool, private school, and public school settings – here are three of my favorite teaching movies.   Dead Poets Society (1989) Robin Williams plays John Keating, a teacher with a heart for ...

It was the typical Babylonian form of execution. After being bound, the guilty were placed in a brick kiln-type furnace with temperatures over 500 degrees hotter than today’s hottest crematory. Death would be almost instantaneous. Three young Hebrew men were about to experience this form of execution for not bowing ...

‘The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the Word of our God endures forever.’  Isaiah 40:8 (NIV) Several years ago we helped our daughter-in-law and two grandsons move from our town to a home near the army base where her husband, our son, was stationed.  He was in Afghanistan at ...

As most of you are aware, complaining and discontentment are symptoms of a deeper problem. When we find ourselves griping or whining it usually means something else looms large. Sometimes, it’s only an emotional reaction to ‘not getting our own way’. In simple terms, it means unhappy or dissatisfied. To ...

  I never seemed to look like the women in the glamour magazines, I am part Native-American and part French. Growing up, I felt so inferior and defined my beauty by magazines and women I saw on T.V. and movies. I did not have anyone at home to tell me ...

The purest seed was planted as the spring frost was unfolding in the fields.  Like most farmers, Eli depended solely upon the harvest of his wheat in order to sustain his family.  Yet, the enemy crept in and planted tares, a weed disguised to look just like the wheat in ...

During the summer between my Freshman and Sophomore year of college, I had the privilege of being a camp counselor at a farm camp.  We had all kinds of domestic animals.  I will never forget the day I witnessed the speckled hen urgently call her chicks.  They ran to her ...

Ecclesiastes 3:4 says, ‘[There is]…a time to weep and a time to laugh,’.  God recognizes the need to cry, and the need to be joyful.  And because of this, He has blessed us with those who will indeed make us laugh when all we want to do is cry.  Robin ...

Has Sports Become An Idol? By John Livingston Clark Football, basketball, soccer, baseball, golf, or tennis, which will it be? Eighty-nine percent of Americans believe sports are an important part of the culture. Not only that, according to the Barna Group, sports figures have greater influence than religious leaders. It ...