How long will it take you to read this article? Probably less than a minute. If it takes you about a minute, then within the time that you’re reading this article there will be (on average) two divorces in the United States. Someone might say, “Well, that doesn’t sound too bad.” In an hour, there will be about 115. In a day,…

Sennacherib, king of Assyria, sent a threatening letter to Hezekiah, king of Judah, which basically said, “Don’t believe God! He won’t save you! We are going to destroy you! Look at how we have utterly destroyed everyone else in our path!” (Isa. 37:8-13). Have you ever been in a situation where you didn’t know what to do or where to turn? Have…

Does it make you angry when someone cuts you off in traffic? Do you come close to losing your temper when the cable is out and the company is unresponsive? Does it just about put you over the top when you find out that someone has been talking about you behind your back? In those three scenarios, there are some things that…

In January 2017, the most expensive home ever listed in America was put on the market in Bel Air, Los Angeles for $250 million. The home had everything that anyone could ever want, including a helicopter, car collection, twenty-one bathrooms and $200,000 worth of candy. But, did you know that your home can be much more valuable than that? The wise Solomon…

A little boy crafted a small wooden boat and gently placed it in the neighborhood pond. After a few minutes he asked his dad (with confusion in his voice), “Daddy, why isn’t my sailboat sailing?” The father tenderly replied, “Well, son, it’s because your sailboat doesn’t have a sail.” How many of us are trying to go through life like a sailboat…

When police arrive on the scene of an accident where there is a small pool of blood remaining behind from one of the victims, do you know what the police can tell about the person from that blood? Besides the fact that a person has been injured to cause them to bleed, there is nothing about that blood (by looking at it)…

Perhaps you have seen the memes that poke fun, “They had one job…but failed.” There’s the picture of a coffee cup with the handle on the inside of the cup. There’s the Fire Zone painted on the blacktop in front of a supermarket that is spelled “FRIE.” There’s the “Back to School” display at a big-box store with racks full of chef’s…

Has someone ever asked you to do something that you really didn’t want to do, or they asked you to help when it really wasn’t convenient? When you went ahead and helped anyway, did you let them know (even if just in a subtle way) that you were doing them a favor and messing up your  schedule to assist them, so that…