Dec 12, 2024
In recent years our culture has really tapped into the power of
testimony. Groups and assemblies of storytellers sharing wisdom
gleaned from personal experiences have been cropping up in the US
and Canada. Listeners are motivated, inspired, and guided.
Confessional style storytelling of average people has...
Dec 11, 2024
Everyone knows that a letter carrier has one job—deliver the mail. Apparently a Brooklyn mailman spent a decade avoiding his job by intentionally hoarding over 40,000 pieces of mail over a ten-year period. In September 2014, Joseph Brucato admitted hiding over a ton of mail (2,500 pounds to be exact) meant for...
Nov 11, 2024
Visitors to a museum in Rome might be struck by four partially finished sculptures. These were figures Michelangelo originally intended to use on the tomb of Pope Julius, but midway through the project he decided not to use them and ceased work on them. There is a hand protruding here, a torso of a man there, a leg,...
Nov 5, 2024
Acts chapter 15 is probably the most pivotal section in a book loaded with monumental moments. Tension builds as the Jewish Christians wrestle with what is essential for salvation, as multitudes of Gentiles pour into the Jesus movement. Is circumcision required? What about the food laws? Does the Sabbath still need to...
Nov 4, 2024
At the height of Jesus' ministry in Galilee there was this
particular scene when the crowds were approaching him (and the
disciples), in what looked like a "sea of wheat". In that moment,
Jesus says these words:
"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord
of the harvest, therefore, to send out...