Glad Tidings of Good Things (April 19, 2018)
A Handbreath
Stretch out your palm. Separate your fingers to their widest; hold them as far apart as you can.
Then consider: “Lord, make me to know my end, and what is the measure of my...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (February 21, 2019)
Hated But Loved
America’s most famous architect, the late Frank Lloyd Wright, designed some unusual buildings. Among them is Fallingwater, a house built in the mid-1930s over a waterfall in southwest Pennsylvania. Stretching out over...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (July 4, 2019)
Heavenly Helicopter
“Not a hair of your head shall be lost. By your patience possess your souls” (Luke 21:18-19).
I’m sure most know well-meaning parents who appear overprotective in the lives of their children.
The term is...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (June 7, 2018)
A Brick in the Wall
You may have heard the expression: “He was a brick!” Few know the origin and significance of that expression. The term implies all that is brave and loyal.
Plutarch, in writing...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (February 23, 2017)
The Face We Show the World
The story is told that an advisor to President Lincoln once suggested a certain candidate as a nominee for the president’s cabinet.
Lincoln refused saying, “I don’t like the man’s...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (September 22, 2016)
Personal Prayer List
Perhaps the most neglected of God’s gifts is the use prayer as we should, based on God’s word (1 Thessalonians 5:17). I have recently made study of prayer and how it was...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (July 28, 2016)
“He Is Sleeping, Mr. President”
John Kenneth Galbraith, in his autobiography, A Life in Our Times, illustrates the devotion of Emily Gloria Wilson, his family’s housekeeper:
It had been a wearying day, and I asked Emily...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (November 9, 2017)
Overcoming Obstacles
The nine-foot, 400-pound Goliath challenged the children of Israel and blasphemed Almighty God. David, a seventeen-year-old fuzzy-cheeked lad who came to visit his brothers demanded to know why they were not accepting the...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (February 1, 2018)
Religion Begins at Home
I ran into a stranger as he passed by, “Oh, excuse me, please,” was my reply.
He said, “Please excuse me, too; I wasn’t watching for you.”
We were very polite, this stranger...