By Dan Hamilton When you were a child in Sunday school, do you remember doing fun songs with motions? I recall some of the choruses required the girls to compete against the boys, where one group stood up and shouted out “Hallelujah” and the other “Praise ye the Lord.” Sometimes there were hand motions; with […]
By Dan Hamilton The origins of old sayings are often interesting. If several online sources are correct, the phrase “pass the buck” began with poker games about 150 years ago. Cheating was common in those games. Players made sure that no one person was allowed to be the dealer out of turn, so a knife […]
By Michael C. Mack 1. Which of the following are not in the Bible? • Money is the root of all evil. • God helps those who help themselves. • To thine own self be true. • Cleanliness is next to godliness. • The apple does not fall far from the tree. Read Ezekiel 18:1-13, 30-32. 2. What does this […]
By David Faust Hellen Keller observed, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” On one occasion the Lord promised the Israelites who went to battle, “Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand” (Leviticus 26:8). That’s favorable math! The principle of synergy […]
By Sam E. Stone Even before Jerusalem fell in 586 BC, many of her finest people were taken captive to Babylon. The prophet Ezekiel was among some 10,000 people who had been carried away (1:1). He had been selected by God to be “a watchman for the house of Israel” (3:17). The great eighteenth chapter […]
