Miscellaneous

Living in a country that is the world’s shining example of freedom, we have often stretched the idea of freedom to mean we are entitled to have […]

Are you happy? The average person bases their answer to that question on one key thing — their current circumstances. And that’s why they’re often unhappy. God […]

Chill out, I’m not talking about the man-made idols we worship. The respectable Idol I’m referring to is Savion Wright (pictured above) who got his few minutes […]

Rick Pendleton tells a great story about two hunters who came upon what at first appeared to be an abandoned farm. The barn was sagging, the house […]

By the time I got to Chicago, I almost had to literally pry my fingers off the car’s steering wheel. I had gripped the wheel so tightly, […]

Good writing is routinely annoying. It is! The best writing gets into our thoughts and stirs our emotions because, at some point, it will challenge our thinking […]

Newman Howard Smith used to tell of a remark made by Winston Churchill the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. After the fall of France to the […]

If you have liked some of the WaterBrook Multnomah titles I have recommended — or appreciated being steered away from a few! — then you’ll have to […]

Summer tried to hang on, but it’s gone already, being replaced by some rainy days of fall. What pairs better with a rainy day than a good […]

Before I traveled to Italy several years ago, I took the trip virtually. I was living in Hawaii at the time, and getting to Italy from an […]