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Drowning In A Ditch
When the English explorer Sir Francis Drake returned from his fifth voyage around the world, he was caught in a small but intense storm on …
Humility
Twentieth-century theologian C. S. Lewis once observed, “Humility isn’t thinking less of YOURSELF, but thinking of yourself LESS!” Let that sink in for a while. Each of …
Sleeping Where the Stench is the Worst
Victor Herman (1915-1985) was a Jewish-American who spent eighteen years as a Soviet prisoner in the work-camps of Siberia. In his 1979 autobiography Coming Out of …
Driving Too Fast
When automobiles were first introduced to the marketplace in the early part of the twentieth century, like everything else that was new, these “horseless carriages” …
Remembering to Forget
The rancor and ugliness of the letter still stings my memory, even though I received it decades ago. Its paragraphs dripped with hateful venom, the …
The Abandoned Bird Nest
J.H. Moore (1846-1935) served as Editor of the Church of the Brethren’s Gospel Messenger from 1883-1884 and again from 1891-1915. The Brethren Encyclopedia says of Brother Moore’s formative years: “As …
When God Tinkers
The famous American automobile manufacturer, Henry Ford, one day hired an electrical genius, Charlie Steinmetz, to do some repair work at the plant on one …
Discernment
‘The ability to perceive, recognize, and distinguish” is how Webster defines discernment. He says further that discernment is “the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what …
The Violinist
On January 12, 2007, a young man playing a violin stood at the L’Enfant Plaza subway station in Washington, D.C. In the forty-five minutes he performed that …
Regarding Short Prayers
All of us church-going people have endured long prayers at one point or another! Someone once told me that poor prayers shouldn’t be long, and good prayers needn’t be long. …