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Food shortages are no laughing matter—and could strike more suddenly than most realize. What does the Bible say about preparing for when any part of the fragile web of distribution breaks?
Many of the prophecies of the Old Testament were meant for our time. Learn how God, through a humble farmer, called out His people for their sins and how that message applies today.
One warm, humid summer evening, I was watching my town’s minor league baseball team play under the lights. The stands were full of folks enjoying America’s favorite pastime in the vintage 1920s baseball park. Various vendors worked the stands hawking popcorn, peanuts, hotdogs, soda pop, and cold beer. One of the beer vendors, a colorful character, was carrying a...
Many people have a “red letter” edition of the Bible, which prints in red ink the words spoken by Jesus. But even with Jesus’ words printed in red to draw attention to them, some seem to misunderstand the things Christ actually said and taught.
A “red letter” edition of the New Testament of the Bible was first printed in 1899, the idea of Louis Klopsch, editor...
The years really do fly quickly, like leaves from the trees—but that doesn't mean they have to be empty.
A time is coming that will redefine the very meaning of catastrophe, but there is hope. Will you stand among those who will help reshape this troubled world?
When I was in grammar school, I shared a class with a young man who became known as “Stevie the Liar.” If anyone told of an event that they had actually experienced, Stevie developed a more extravagant fabrication that overshadowed that occurrence. Stevie constantly shared “points of fact” that upon closer scrutiny proved to be more of his vivid imagination. In...
For millennia, fibers of the flax plant have been spun into thread and used to make linen cloth. Fine linen has been a very useful fabric since ancient times. Today, linen is used to make clothing, bedding, tablecloths, napkins, dish towels, and many other things. It is a durable, lightweight, breathable, absorbent, comfortable, and hypoallergenic fabric. But...
While taking a trip down memory lane, I once came across a fearful memory lodged there. When I was three, I was in a busy store with my parents, holding on to my mother’s hand, when I looked up and saw it was not my mother. I think the woman was as startled as I was. Panic time! In a few moments my father found me and I was safe, but with a lifelong memory of...
Some may be familiar with the case of Frank Serpico, a former New York detective whose experiences facing police corruption were dramatized in the Hollywood film Serpico (1973) starring Al Pacino. But we need no Hollywood blockbuster to understand the life and times of a man who faced extreme hardship for following the rules and attempting to “swim upstream”...