We recently bought a used car and it has been a problem ever since. It wasn’t the car that we originally wanted to buy. When we got to the dealership and asked about a car they had on their website, they told us that it was already sold, and that they hadn’t updated their website…
Ash trees are dying at an alarming rate all over the Midwest. The culprit? The Emerald Ash Boer. These trees, however, aren’t dying overnight; it generally takes about 3 years for these insects to kill their host. Nevertheless, unless some drastic intervention occurs, once they show up they not only kill the tree they infect,…
Every now and then you hear a sound bite that was intended for one context that oddly enough has immense applications to other areas as well. This recently happened to me. I was listening to Bono, the lead singer for U2, talk about some advice he got early in his career. The advice came from…
STORY TELLING ONLY MAKES BEDTIME CHRISTIANS. One of my fondest memories of being a dad was telling my sons made up stories at bedtime. Of course we would also tell them some of the old time favorites, as well as about the great events documented in the Bible. While they were very young sometimes…
Well, they’ve released another zombie movie. It seems to me that zombies are everywhere these days. I’m not a big fan of zombie movies; I think it’s because of the cannibalism angle. Don’t get me wrong, I like scary movies. Take the movie “Aliens,” now that was a pretty scary movie. However, watching dead people…
By: Dr. Monte Shanks. Dr. Shanks is a professor with Liberty Seminary. The apostle Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 4:5, “. . . endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist . . .” This verse makes more sense to me now after 30 years of ministry than it ever has. In order to…
I’m not a big fan of most commercials; generally speaking I find them quite annoying. Right now there is a specific commercial running that drives me crazy, and you have probably seen it as well. It’s that commercial where a guy is sitting in front of his TV and his kid walks right in front…
Some years back I was on a plane flying out of O’Hare bound for Hartford. I was pleasantly surprised when we actually pulled away from the gate on time. However, after we rolled out toward the runway we moved off to the side where, oddly enough, we began watching plane after plane roll right past…
I love cowboy movies. They are just plain fun to watch. Westerns always have a few necessary components. Obviously there is the climatic gunfight. There usually is a break-neck horse chase. There should always be a heroine or woman worth fighting for. And generally there needs to be a barroom brawl in which the hero…
I’m guessing that most of us have heard of the Taj Mahal. Some may not know where it is, but the name is certainly familiar enough (it’s in India if you were wondering). But what most people are unsure of is what the place actually is. The most that some know is that it is…
