Rome went through three main stages in its historical development. It started as a monarchy—which meant it was ruled by a king. Then it became a republic, where all authority…
I read someone say that "once suffering is completely accepted, it ceases in a sense to be suffering." And there’s some truth that. That it’s the time of waiting—anticipating the…
I remember speaking with someone about the Lord’s Supper—Communion––one time. And we were specifically talking about a once immensely popular evangelical pastor/preacher because he had just released a video not…
A beloved southern Baptist and Texas pastor told a story once—a story of a young lady who was brought before the church by some members and leaders for discipline, because…
There’s a phenomenon that was discovered sometime in the 1970s called inattentional blindness. Inattentional blindness (also called perceptual blindness) is the failure to notice something that is completely visible, because…
Sophocles, the famous ancient Greek dramatist wrote a play about a legendary king of Thebes from Greek mythology, called Oedipus Rex. Laius king of Thebes is warned by an oracle…
The World’s Strongest Man is an international strongman competition that’s been held every year since 1977, attracting some of the biggest, burliest, most beastly men on earth. The men who…
A number of years ago, in the 1970s, police in Delray Beach, Florida picked up a woman from a shopping mall known to her neighbors as \"Garbage Mary.\" Mary appeared…
4 years ago today, on January, 26, 2020 which was a Sunday, Kobe Bryant woke up, quickly got his 13-year old daughter Gigi ready, and rushed to catch the 7am…
A man told a story once about the unexpected lesson his friend had learned about the power of experiencing or seeing something firsthand or as close as possible to that—up…