How Does Your Garden Grow?
I was born on a bitterly cold Canadian winter night in January. The snow lay deep across the landscape. Nobody was thinking about gardening. Well, that may not be exactly true. The diehard gardeners, at the very moment of my birth,...
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Read A Good Book Lately?
I recall seeing a Charles Shultz cartoon with two students talking. One says to the other, “I think I’ve discovered the secret to understanding the Bible. I’ve started reading it.” America is flooded with Bibles. Almost nine out of ten households...
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The Prophets Have Spoken
The great monotheistic religions of the world all trace their history to the little region east of the Mediterranean that still dominates world news. One of the uniting features of all three beliefs—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—is their conviction that we are...
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If Only…
“Of all the words declared by men, The saddest are, ‘It might have been.’” Regrets rot the soul. Maybe you’ve seen videos of someone offering people cash to answer one question: “What is your greatest regret?” Just hearing the question,...
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You’ll Get A Charge Out Of This
My daughter Moira and I were chatting recently. Music is her native language. She told me an amazing fact—how flowers sing to bees! Let me share it with you. Springtime, after all, is busy bee time. In the Oct 28, 2022...
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The Numbers Don’t Add Up
Don’t confuse me with a math geek. But even with my schoolhouse arithmetic, the numbers I hear on a regular basis don’t add up. Here’s a sobering number from the Economic Policy Institute. Globalizing our economy (shipping jobs overseas) has cost...
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What’s Up? Heaven, Of Course
Who doesn’t enjoy strolling through an award-winning garden or touring historic mansions like Vizcaya in Coconut Grove, Hearst Castle at San Simeon, or the du Pont Chateaux in the Brandywine Valley—all the time thankful you don’t pay for the upkeep! Could...
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Five Smooth Stones
Evil is on the loose. Goliath-like, it stands across the valley and mocks our once-civilized society. Since we’ve rejected the Bible’s God for our own selfish ways, it laughs at our attempts to salvage the benefits of a Christian worldview...
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