A Journey Through Ephesians One

A Journey Through Ephesians One

Throughout the month of August, we’re taking a close look at 23 verses of the New Testament.  They comprise Ephesians chapter one, which paints one of the Bible’s most comprehensive pictures of what it means for ordinary people to be “in Christ.”...
The Healing Power of Love

The Healing Power of Love

If a single individual can be credited with the founding of modern American surgery, William Halsted should be mentioned first. During the late 1800s Halsted was one of the “Big Four” physicians who helped launch Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.  A...
The Case for Gentleness

The Case for Gentleness

The odds are good that at some point in your life you’ve had the chance to play a revolutionary musical instrument called a soft-loud.  These days we usually call it a piano.  For the better part of three centuries (the early 1500s through the...
Hot Dogs

Hot Dogs

It’s summertime, the season for hot dogs.  There have always been two great mysteries surrounding the quintessential American snack:  What are they really made of?  And who actually invented them? The first mystery has become the stuff of urban legend – as in, why...
Shadow Missions

Shadow Missions

In 1979, the Charlie Daniels Band proved that a song about fiddles could become a national hit.The Devil Went Down to Georgia is the account of an epic fiddle-playing contest between Satan and a young man named Johnny.  Who is the ultimate virtuoso?  The stakes are...