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From Max Lucado, "A Gentle Thunder"

I was speaking yesterday to a friend who had bought a pleasant house, with a large garden. He said to me, “I now feel as if I had a home. I have lived in London for years, and I have changed from one house to another with as little regret as a man feels in changing a bus; but I have always longed for…

A Danish Museum commissioned Artist Jens Haaning to produce a work of art to be a part of their “Work it Out” exhibition, with the purpose of exploring “people’s relationship with work.” The artist took a payment equivalent to $84,000.00 and sent two blank canvases for them to exhibit and entitled the…

As part of a multi-million-dollar roof restoration project at an English Manor house, workers lifted had to remove the floorboard of the attic for the first time in centuries. Archaeologists expected to find a few coins, bits of paper, and other debris that had fallen through the cracks. Instead, they…

When does a person begin to be old? New data indicates that the precise age at which an average person hits the low point of the lifelong “happiness curve” is 47.19. Suddenly the ticking of the clock grows much louder. We know that we begin to age the day we are born. Most of us don’t think of 48 as…

It might not be good practice to eat your experiments, but astronauts aboard the International Space Station my get to do just that, and have a taste of home at the same time. For over a year, Ian and Jordana Fichenbaum worked to develop a Zero Gravity oven that could revolutionize space food. Their…

NASA has placed a new type of atomic clock in orbit that could transform the way humans explore space. The Deep Space Atomic Clock is better than atomic clocks currently in use. The new device will provide more accurate information about a vehicle’s path through space because it can accurately measure…

Writing to business executives, Peter Drucker says, “. . . one cannot rent, hire, buy, or otherwise obtain more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. . . . Moreover, time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday’s time is…

Christopher Palma from Pennsylvania State University is an astronomer who loves to help people learn to spot satellites without the aid of a telescope or binoculars. Palmer says there is a list of more than 1,700 man-made satellites in earth-orbit now and some are large enough, reflective enough, and…

A German company is working on a mission to the moon which would be the first privately –funded landing on the lunar surface. The company already has a contract with SpaceX to carry its payload to the moon sometime in 2019. The payload will set up the 4G network on the moon and then connect two rovers…

Residents of the Kenyan island of Lamu are known for their shipbuilding abilities. Recently, wood has become scarce, but residents have discovered a new way to use the resources available to them. Each day the tide brings in a new assortment of plastic trash, and residents collected 33 tons of trash…

Officials at a Missouri Museum said they have found something unusual in a classic Van Gogh painting. Mary Schafer from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City said she was examining the painting and found the remains of a grasshopper embedded in the paint. Schafer said the insect is missing its…

Language may prove to be the undoing of Darwinian Evolution. Tom Wolfe in his book, The Kingdom of Speech talks about the findings in a magazine essay published back in 2014. The essay was signed by eight prominent scientists that basically admitted the failure of evolution to explain the origin of human…

When workers at a Goodwill center in Denver, Colorado discovered an old Bible in a box filled with computer parts, they were naturally curious. When they opened the Bible and read the inscription inside, the mystery only deepened. It had been published in 1812, and had the names of the Burbidge family…

In their book, Conquer Your Fear, Share Your Faith: An Evangelism Crash Course, Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort write, “We all know that it's wise to keep a check on our flesh for skin cancer. What may look small on the surface may be a network of death beneath the skin. The same applies spiritually. One…

Some days are more exciting than others. A computer programmer recently decided to use computer technology to locate the least exciting day in history. William Tunstall-Pedoe used a computer program called “True Knowledge” to analyze 300 million facts about people, places, business and events, placing…

At the ripe old age of 89, a year before English politician Sir Leonard Woolf died, he said, “The world today and the history of the human ant hill would be exactly the same if I had played ping pong instead of sitting on committees, writing books, and producing memoranda. I have therefore to make this…

From the Helm – Saturday, January 17, 2009 We arrived back in Mountain Home a week ago today. On the heals of such an adventure as our time in the Valley produced, my spirit was filled with peaceful excitement. God used the days in ways of which only He is capable. In the midst of all my strivings to…

Day by Day written by Caroline Sandell-Berg Day by day and with each passing moment, Strength I find to meet my trials here; Trusting in my Father’s wise bestowment, I’ve no cause for worry or for fear. He whose heart is kind beyond all measure Gives unto each day what He deems best — Lovingly its part…

We can all identify with this picture. Every one of us has a meter running and no amount of pleading or begging or wrangling will allow us to put more money in the meter. The Creator drops the change in and winds it up and then what we do with our “parking time” here is up to us. However, we don’t know…

We can all identify with this picture. Every one of us has a meter running and no amount of pleading or begging or rangling will allow us to put more money in the meter. The Creator drops the change in and winds it up and then what we do with our “parking time” here is up to us. However, we don’t know…

Changing Culture- Tim Keller Some seem to have risen to the challenge of effective ministry in a changing culture. Who can we learn from? I am actually a bit reluctant to lift anyone up high as a shining example—including Redeemer Presbyterian. Let me put it like this: John Stott at All Souls Church…

| Answering Common Objections to the Doctrine of the Trinity---- By Ben Rast Contender Ministries August 23, 2005 ---- | | Though the doctrine of the Trinity is quite biblical, many Christians find themselves unable to adequately answer the attacks on this doctrine by other monotheistic religions such…

Chapter 5 4990 B.C. The Flood–1877 B.C. Joseph 148 Six thousand years had passed since the year of creation. Mankind had slowly multiplied on the earth. Because man had been created with a perfect body, he began with no inherent birth defects. Therefore, the Bible discloses that during this period of…