John Piper writes: I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to waste your life. Consider this story from the 1998 Readers Digest: A couple took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast 5 years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta
After thanking God for a multitude of blessings, Abraham Lincoln closed his Thankgiving Proclamation with this (is it timely or what?): No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our
Last week I wrote this; my thoughts follow afterward: I was invited to give the benediction at a Memorial Day service about 2 years ago by a man who strongly supports freedom of religion for all (as do I). In fact, Reverend Friend has his very own religion: God’s Eternal Universal Religion. He was in
The House has gone the way of the Godless. So too, the Senate. An Associated Press report: “South Dakotans rejected a law that would have banned virtually all abortions, Arizona became the first state to defeat an amendment to ban gay marriage and Missouri approved a measure backing stem cell research.” In a huge loss,
Your Thoughts? MY THOUGHTS/What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Last week I posed this challenge and Jessica guessed it right! (You can read the whole story below.) I followed this car into my gym’s parking lot. The two bumper messages struck me as quite odd. Here’s a close-up view: Hmmmm… Have you figured it out? Tell me why you think this is odd and
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