Read: Habakkuk 2:3 | “Keep Calm and Carry On” was created as a motivational slogan by the British government in 1939 just as the storms of the Second World War were forming. With impending mass air attacks on major cities, the pithy slogan was intended to boost the morale of the citizens. [Richard Slocombe, British […]
Read: Proverbs 20:22 | In the Bible, procreation is a commandment. It is one of the main purposes of marriage and considered a blessing. (Gen. 1:28; 9:7) Childlessness or barrenness in a marriage was a curse, a punishment and source of embarrassment. (Lev. 20:20–21; Jer. 22:30) It was with barrenness that God decided to test […]
Read: Psalm 106:13 | A grandfather found his grandson, jumping up and down in his playpen, crying at the top of his voice. When Johnnie saw his grandfather, he reached up his little chubby hands and said, “Out, Grampa, out.” Naturally, the grandfather started to lift the little fellow out of his predicament. The mother […]
Read: Luke 8:43-48 | He touched me! In the beginning when God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, He touched you and me. In Genesis 1, we find that God created everything else by speaking it into existence. Yet with humankind, God chose to […]
Read: Mark 12:30-31 NIV | Every night Willy Annen of Lausanne, Switzerland, calls out the hours from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Annen, whose job may be unique in Europe today, is the city watchman. From the windswept belfry of the city’s ancient cathedral, he will cry out: “This is the watchman; it struck twelve.” […]
