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In The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business, Erin Meyer writes, “There’s a wise Bahamian proverb: ‘To engage in conflict, one does not need to bring a knife that cuts, but a needle that sews.’” —Jim L. Wilson The Culture Map, 218 Colossians 3:13 (CSB) bearing with…

One of the keys to a marriage’s survival is effective communication skills. Communication is not completed until the recipient receives the message intended by the sender. A woman in India has filed for divorce from her husband because his communication is being received differently than he intends.…

Jeff Gebhart, 47, of Kansas City has offered to pay anyone who can find him a girlfriend a bonus. She must take a survey, no word as to what is in the survey that Jeff approves. She must agree to date him exclusively for one year. And what would that recommending person receive from Jeff? $25,000 is…

One thing is certain, unless the Lord returns each one of us has death in our future. One South Korean mortuary is offering people the chance to experience a taste of what their own death might be like. The mortuary invites the public to dress in shrouds, write their last testaments, and lie in closed…

A Dallas Texas court convicted a former Dallas police officer of murder. The officer, Amber Guyger, had mistakenly entered the wrong apartment and fired her service weapon when she mistook the resident for an intruder. The victim’s brother, Brandt Jean embraced the police officer and told her, “I love…

On October 2nd, 2006 at 10:25am, Charles Carl Roberts IV entered a one-room schoolhouse in the Amish community of Nickel Mines in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He instructed all of the adults and young boys to leave, but held the remaining ten girls hostage. Sensing what was to come, one of the girls offered…

A winter storm that stranded a group of soldiers became an opportunity for an Oklahoma community to show kindness. Hundreds of soldiers returning from holiday break were stuck at the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City because the road to their base in Lawton, 80 miles away, was impassible. When…

Steve Bartman is notorious in Chicago. In 2003, he interfered with a foul ball that would have been an out but instead it went a long way toward the Cubs losing the playoff and missing the World Series. He may have been the most hated man in the land of Chicago Cubs baseball. After the Cubs won the 2016…

In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “Brotherly forgiveness makes room for the forgiveness of Jesus to enter into their common life. Instead of seeing their neighbours as men who have injured them, they see them as men for whom Christ has won forgiveness on the cross. They meet on…

Jessica Baker was unable to attend her friend’s wedding when her plans for a babysitter fell through at the last minute. Since the wedding invitation was clear that children were not allowed, they had no choice but to miss the wedding. Later, they received a bill from the newlyweds for $75.90 with the…

In the book, Forgiveness and Health: Scientific Evidence and Theories Relating Forgiveness to Better Health, the authors write, “Research indicates forgiveness can promote resilience (Worthington, 2005) as well as physical and mental health (Thorensen, Harris, & Luskin, 2000) and, thus, forgiveness can…

The cell-phone video of a woman paying for diapers for a cash strapped young mother went viral after another shopper who witnessed the act of kindness and put it on his Facebook page. Carol Flynn had just paid for her purchase and was preparing to leave the store, when she overheard a young woman behind…

The current president of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan urged local Nigerian politicians in the country “to imbibe the habit of forgiveness and reconciliation in the interest of national development.” He noted that forgiveness is one of the “secrets of success by any leader… [and] a leader should have a natural…

According to tradition, in 1357 a Swiss man named Konrad Mueller killed another man named Heinrich Stucki. Part of the punishment was that Mueller and all subsequent owners of the farm had to give a local church 70 Swiss francs ($76 US) a year to cover the cost of candles and oil to keep an eternal lamp…

After 73 years of working at Macy’s department store in New York City, Rose Syracuse is retiring from her job as an accountant. She took the job when she graduated from high school in 1939. Rose is 92 now, and after falling and breaking a hip, she decided it was time to retire. “On her last day at the…

In 2004, Ameneh Bahrami suffered burns to her face, and lost her eyesight when a man threw acid in her face because she refused his marriage proposal. Authorities later arrested the man and convicted him of the crime; the judge sentenced the man using the Islamic law system of “qisas” or eye-for-an-eye…

Denis Estimon remembers what loneliness felt like. As an immigrant from Haiti he felt isolated and alone when he first immigrated to the US. “It’s not a good feeling, like you’re by yourself.” Now that he has become a popular senior at his high school he is working to help others overcome their loneliness.…

PREJUDICE In the fictional Star Trek universe, the relationship between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire paralleled the real world relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war era. Fear, lack of trust, and hate characterized the association. In…

In Character Is DestinyJohn McCain wrote about his imprisonment in the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War. "During the time I was held in solitary, I was caught, not for the first time, communicating with my dear friend in the cell next to mine. For my transgression, I was kept overnight in a punishment…

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" William A. Ward Gratitude is the memory of the heart. Jean Baptiste Massieu. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G.K. Chesterton You say grace…

A woman was asked by a co-worker, 'What is it like to be a Christian?' The co-worker replied, 'It is like being a pumpkin.' God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. Then He cuts off the top and scoops out all the yucky stuff. He removes the seeds of doubt, hate,…

MISTAKES After the city crew accidentally demolished a five-car garage, Linda Stango, the Community Development Commissioner for Rochester, N.Y. said, “We just misidentified which building it was.” —NEWSWEEK, September 22, 2003, p. 21 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson My grandfather taught me to measure…

FORGIVENESS A Grinch of sorts was busy in South Florida this past holiday season. On Christmas Eve, Ron and Helen Meijer found a ransom note in their front-lawn nativity scene. The plastic baby Jesus had been kidnapped. The kidnappers did not demand money. Instead, they made a demand the Meijers refused…

In a letter to Alexander Campbell about a meeting he was conducting in Nashville in 1860, James Challen speaks of an old man whom Campbell had immersed years before. He says that in spite of all the troubles the Nashville church had suffered at the hands of J. B. Ferguson, “Bro. John Harding, whom you…

Living above the Line A Celebration of our Union with Christ Rev Greg Byrd Faith Temple Baptist Church Poetry Texas Living Above the Line Introduction Introduction Colossians 1:27 says Christ in you, the hope of Glory. In fact Christ in us is our only hope of eternal Glory, The union of the believer…