A well-written book leaves its readers hanging at the end of most chapters. This way you can’t put the book down. You gotta know what happens next, so you keep on reading. When the individual books of the Bible were written, and before they were all collected into one volume, there were no chapter divisions. … [Read more…]
Hiro Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who fought in WWII – and kept fighting till he was absolutely convinced the war was over. Only then did he surrender. That historic moment came on March 9th, 1974 – 29 years after the war had ended! Because of his remote hiding place in the … [Read more…]
Even if many of us don’t know the precise definition of the word, “paradox,” we all have a sense of what it means. Some of the more familiar examples of a paradox include, “Less is more;” which means what? How can “less” actually be “more?” Well, we get it that something less complicated is often … [Read more…]
Several years ago, a woman stopped by my office to ask if she could speak with me. Here was one of those moments of internal struggle as my plate was very full that day and I had no clue how long this might take. She wasted little time launching into her dilemma, but not before … [Read more…]
Pastor Jean-Paul Sankagui followed Jesus Christ and worked for years to expand God’s kingdom despite a constant threat of persecution. In 1993, he boldly planted a church in a Muslim neighborhood outside Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. In an effort to silence his witness, Islamists shot Pastor Jean-Paul to death outside … [Read more…]
