By Tom Cash Can I brag on our grandchildren for a moment? While ministering in Indiana, we lived 75 miles from our son’s family. On a busy December Sunday afternoon, we traveled south to attend our grandkids’ Christmas program. Because of extra obligations that day, we walked through their church doors five minutes after […]
Where You Live — for December 22, 2014
By Dan Lentz 1. In what places do you feel most at home at Christmastime? Read Luke 2:1-17. 2. Even though the Christmas story might be familiar, what still amazes you about the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ birth? 3. The key characters in the Christmas story were not in their homes at […]
Finding the Missing Peace–John 14:27
By David Faust When the chemical engineer Alfred Nobel died in 1896, his will established a trust fund for rewarding outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, literature, and medicine, as well as the famous Nobel Peace Prize. Ironically, Nobel gained a significant portion of his fortune from inventing dynamite and explosives used in war. It’s […]
In the World — December 8, 2013
By Christy Barritt Parent Thrown Out of Common Core Meeting A man in Ellicott City, Maryland was arrested after asking a question during a pubic forum meeting of the Maryland State Department of Education in Baltimore County. The meeting was about the Common Core curriculum—a new set of federal standards that will be applied […]
The Lesson and Life — for December 15, 2013
By Tom Cash I woke up around 4 a.m. as my Uncle Bob passed two trucks. He began drifting toward the left into the median. Assuming he fell asleep, I called his name. He did not respond. Bob couldn’t respond; he died at the wheel. The car went off I-80, became airborne, flipped, and landed upright […]
