A fast-food loving black bear stole a $45 Taco Bell order from the front porch of a home in the Orlando suburb of Longwood moments after the Uber Eats driver delivered it, an Orlando television station reported. This is no Florida man story, as there’s no evidence a Floridian dressed in a bear costume stole the food. Rather, the […]
Read More Beary HungryA 1941 artwork by Dutch abstract artist Piet Mondrian has been found to have been hanging upside down in various museums for 75 years. An honest mistake since the piece features interlaced red, yellow, black and blue adhesive tape strips that subtly thicken at the bottom. But a photograph of Mondrian’s studio shows the same […]
Read More UPSIDE DOWNSu Zhu Yuan thought Americans celebrated Christmas as part of their patriotic duty. Relatives gave gifts. Neighbors prepared feasts. Storefronts in Chinatown advertised sales. But during her eight years in the United States, no one told her the biblical story behind Christmas–until this year. On Sunday, Yuan celebrated the birth of Jesus for the first […]
Read More Christmas rebirthChristmas is the season of choice. If you want to buy a food processor, Amazon offers you 2,000 types. Or how about a drill—there are more than 40,000 options. No, I’m not making those numbers up. Choices can be glorious, and confusing, and empowering, and overwhelming, all at the same time. And in the West […]
Read More FINDING CHRISTMASIn 2018, when Dale and Julie Marks bought their home in the Beaverdale community of Des Moines, they were excited because the community is known for its elaborate holiday lights on all its homes. Julie said, “It was like a dream come true to buy a house here. I’ve wanted to live here since I […]
Read More Christmas miracleThe rock star, Sting, in his autobiography Broken Music, tells how he bought his first bass guitar. In a local music shop, in the middle of all the shiny new guitars, he saw an old Fender bass. is a careworn relic of the sixties, the paintwork ruined and the varnish flaked. Among all the shiny others on the […]
Read More Made newOne hot afternoon, a certain woman walked to her neighbor’s produce stand to buy grapes. The line was long. And each person seemed to get special attention. But she waited patiently. When she finally made it to the front of the line, the owner asked for her order. She asked for grapes. “Please excuse me […]
Read More Waiting . . .Deep in the Congo, at a Christian mission, a young woman died in childbirth as she gave birth to a premature baby. The missionaries tried to improvise an incubator, but the only hot water bottle they had was beyond repair. So, they prayed for the baby and for her little sister who was now an […]
Read More The Little thingsA few years ago, The Edge, U2’s guitarist, took his son out trick-or-treating in L.A. Both The Edge and his son dressed in The Edge’s trademark black beanie, black leather jacket with a guitar slung around his neck. As they walked away from one door, they heard the couple in the house say, “That’s a […]
Read More trick or treatWhen Christ’s image is reflected in us His work of purifying is accomplished.
Read More Patience of purification
Pursuing God 