Sometimes the answers to our toughest problems are a lot easier than we think! A hundred years ago the game of basketball was at its infant stage of life and just beginning to flourish. But there was still a big problem: Nobody could figure out how to easily retrieve the ball after each score. PlayersContinue reading “Life Doesn’t Have To Be So Hard!”
Category Archives: Daily Devotionals
Bring Them, Don’t Bury Them
The Great Wall of China stands today as a testament to human ingenuity. Spanning across three thousand miles, it demonstrates the lengths that humanity will go to help ensure protection for what we most value. In this case, that cost was over 100,000 peasant workers-those who gave their lives in forced labor to erect this monument.Continue reading “Bring Them, Don’t Bury Them”
When God Went Undercover
Christmastime has arrived, and the Christmas story reminds me of a TV show I once enjoyed called “Undercover Boss,” where large-corporation CEOs disguise themselves as newly-hired workers within their own company. There they must learn how to work assembly lines, clean bathrooms, and experience the sometimes dank and dangerous conditions of their own company. At tenure’s end, they reveal theirContinue reading “When God Went Undercover”
Peace in His Presence
My daughter helped me write today’s devotional-sort of. She came downstairs early this morning. She stared at me with those big blue eyes, smiled, then proceeded to plop down on the couch, grabbed a quilt, and fell back asleep. I was riveted at the sight of my nine year old daughter sleeping. She looked soContinue reading “Peace in His Presence”
Unbroken!
In 1941 Olympic runner Louis Zamperini was well within reach of shattering the four-minute mile mark, a feat considered impossible at the time. Then Pearl Harbor was bombed and the United States was thrown into World War Two. Serving his country as a bombardier, Zamperini’s plane crashed into the vast Pacific ocean, where he livedContinue reading “Unbroken!”
“Never Forget Who You Are!”
Judy Garland is one of the great Hollywood tragedies of history. Born Francis Gumm, a spunky and natural actress, she quickly changed her name to something “more sophisticated” once her acting career began. Her success was meteoric, achieving unsurpassed fame and fortune by age sixteen. Though outwardly Garland appeared to be living the dream ofContinue reading ““Never Forget Who You Are!””
