To me, the saddest verse in the Bible is Luke 2:43: “After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it.” (NIV) Or, as the New Living Translation puts it, they “didn’t miss him.” Joseph and Mary were good people. They …
How often do you think about your big toe? Probably not too often. But when I broke mine, I thought about it a lot—how to make it comfortable, how far I could walk before its complaining became unbearable, what areas I could negotiate with the crutches it required. And because I had this broken toe …
Quick—what’s wrong with this picture? Can you see it? Or are you so used to seeing Easter bunnies sitting on colored chicken eggs that you don’t even see the contradiction anymore? If you have kids, if you’ve ever been around kids, or if you’ve ever been a kid, you’ve heard the question, “What’s wrong with …
Is there a supreme, overarching purpose to life? Is there a single motto, a common life goal, that will bring meaning to anyone in any walk of life? Check out this quotation from Messiah, by Jerry D. Thomas: The law of selfless love is the law of life for earth and heaven … All created …