All of the apostles were in a boat crossing the Sea of Galilee when a storm hit. Even though some of these men were seasoned sailors, the tempest proved to be too much for them. Despite heroic efforts to stay afloat, the vessel sank and everyone died. —or at least...
by Wayne Burger (August 1990) Each baseball season teams battle for the pennant. A pennant is a banner that proclaims“Victory!” Long ago Israel won a great victory and “Moses built an altar and named it The Lord(Yahweh) is My Banner” (Exodus 17:15). This definitely...
by Bret Carter (July 2023) There was a storm. The kind that roars at the windows and claws at the roof. The local newswarned everyone to take precautions, but the power soon trembled and died, snuffing out thetelevision and abandoning the house to darkness. Even...
(or The Wisdom of Roy’s Wife) by Ray Wallace (June 2023) “There’s a rattlesnake under that big rock!” Roy shouted. “I didn’t hear anything,” Ron said. I agreed with Ron. We were actually hunting rattlesnakes in southwest Colorado and this would...
Modern Problems / Ancient Solutions by Denny Petrillo, Ph.D. The modern philosophy called “wokeism” is having a tremendous impact on our society. What is“wokeism”? Here is a rather thorough definition:Wokeism is a term used to describe the promotion of liberal...
by Jack P. Carter (June 2023) When you think of the challenges the church has faced over the many centuries of its existence,the forms of those challenges will likely depend on the period in question. If, for example, one isthinking of a person who lived in the first...
