Jigsaw puzzles had their beginnings in 18th century Europe as pieces of wooden maps made by mapmakers of the time. But by 1900, American adults were big fans of the puzzle as a relaxing pastime, although the cost of about $5 per puzzle was steep at a time when the ...
Read More »The Lord is My Helper and Keeper
God is always willing and able to help us. He desires to help us, but the choice is yours. I can remember wrestling with the Word of God, and it kept me up many nights without sleep. You see fear was my biggest issue as well as not wanting to ...
Read More »Navigating the River of Doubt
In early 1914, Theodore Roosevelt was looking for a new challenge after failing to win a third nomination for President. Along with his son, Kermit, and Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon, Roosevelt set off to explore the River of Doubt in the Amazon forest of Brazil. If the former President wanted ...
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Virginia’s question was an honest one: “Is there a Santa Claus?” The editor of the New York Sun during that Christmas season in 1897 was tasked with answering the young girl so influenced by her doubting friends that she had been compelled to put the question to her local newspaper. ...
Read More »Jesus and Michael Kor
There it hung, perfectly positioned to catch my eye. As my daughter and I walked through the store, it’s shiny perfectness was just beckoning me. I seriously debated; calculated the pros and cons, tried to justify in my head a reason to spend so much money on something so trivial ...
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