June 18th – Simple Is Best

 
If we do not approach the study of God’s Word honestly and with realistic expectations, then we are like the man who searched for honey only to find a loaf of bread. One of the popular (but Biblically inaccurate) trends in Christendom years ago was for ministers to apply every text in the Bible to [...]

June 17th – No Advertising Necessary

 
If you have a spiritual gift, then you won’t have to tell anybody else. They will see it for themselves. I once had a man come to me and ask if he could teach an adult Sunday School class. Supposedly God had told him he had the spiritual gift of teaching.
I answered, “If God tells [...]

June 15th-16th – Take the Gift Out of the Box

 
Sometimes we need a little help bringing our assets to light. The poet Elizabeth Goldring had developed blindness as an adult. One day during an eye exam, a doctor tested her eyes with a laser device called a scanning laser ophthalmoscope. In the middle of the test, Goldring noticed that the laser allowed her to [...]

June 14th – Every Lego Counts

 
No one has ever built a Lego castle (or a Lego Taj Mahal, a Lego model of London’s Trafalgar Square, or a Lego city, for that matter) with only one Lego piece. Any Lego creation requires hundreds or even thousands of Lego pieces put together. The pieces come in different colors and sizes. Each piece [...]

June 13th – It Takes Courage to Fly Again

 
Bart Simon had every reason never to fly again. On Sunday, March 22, 1992, he boarded USAir Flight 405 and waited on the tarmac. The plane would be departing in the middle of a snowstorm; but after a half-hour delay, it had been cleared for takeoff.
As the plane raced down the runway, it lifted into [...]