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Do you have any New Year’s resolutions? I ask him, as we head down to the creek. I want to be healthier, he says.
There is a type of person in this world who can have long serious discussions about what zombies represent in horror movies...
Was there work no one else wanted? People said, "Give it to Janet!" Around the office, in fact, "Janet!" was practically a catch phrase for the small stuff. You’d think she’d hate it...
Here’s something for you to daydream about: what if you had been given a substantial chunk of money when you were 19 years old, and then were told to go follow your dreams?
God has only one loom. You wouldn't think so by the fragmentation of our lives. Our days look like the scrap floor...
Psalm 77, written by Asaph, begins with a profound expression of anguish. The psalmist has found himself in a terribly difficult and painful situation. He has cried out to God, even shouting and...
I have a little garden plot in the alley behind our house where I try to grow a few vegetables throughout the...
A hard, cold winter greeted the Pilgrims who reached Plymouth Rock in 1620. Miles Standish was Military Captain for the Colony and one of the few to escape illness. His wife, Rose, was less...
Quaint winter scenes often depict skaters on scenic New England ice or bare aspens framed with Rocky Mountain grandeur. But a common La Guardia winter picture is New Yorkers dressed in knit black...
The Servant of God in Isaiah is a “man of sorrows.” The Hebrew phrase (’ish makh’ovot) means, literally, “man of pains,” and...
In Isaiah 49, the Lord speaks to his Servant, sometimes pictured as Israel, and at other times pictured as an Israelite who...
My father had a work plan that Benjamin Franklin would have approved of. Somehow it never seemed to work out that way for me.
Bonnie Wurzbacher weighs in on the importance of women leaders in business and church.
Bob is a nationally known journalist who once peddled his own column, newspaper by newspaper, to get it syndicated. Whenever he visited new towns or cities, Bob met with the local editors to...
I envied my friend's job: five times a week he types out a column for a big city newspaper, poking fun at local politicians and red tape . . . and gets paid...
By rep. 11 of a 15-rep. set of exquisite tortures devised by my half-my-age-but-twice-as-buff trainer, I was struggling. He noticed. (He always does.) My arms were beginning to wobble a little, and...
Author and educator John Erskine was 14 when his piano teacher asked him if he practiced an hour at a time. John said yes. His teacher said, "Well, don’t! When you grow up...
Phyllis is amazing. Day after day she shows up for volunteer work. She cooks for people, visits them, cares for them.
Remember the story of Joseph, the spoiled son—sold into slavery, who became the number two leader of all Egypt, the model business manager? As a young slave, Joseph soon oversaw his master’s...
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race...
