by Morning Reflections | Jul 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
On July 14, 1789, a Parisian street mob stormed the Bastille, a state prison that symbolized the oppressive regime of King Louis XVI. Today is Bastille Day, the French version of America’s Fourth of July. It commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution. The...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
For more than 4,000 years, on three different continents, many of the smartest people in the world pursued a dream. They yearned to turn ordinary junk into treasure. It was the dream of alchemy. Through a combination of research, magic, and laboratory...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
It’s back. It’s time for America’s annual mid-summer obsession with sharks. NatGeo’s Sharkfest, a four-week celebration of the fearsome eating machines, kicked off two nights ago. The Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, which begins on July 24,...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
For most of my life I have rooted against China. I was born the same year the Chinese announced they had become members of the exclusive club of nations who can deploy nuclear weapons. When I was a teenager, global sales of Mao Zedong’s Little Red...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
When digital technology arrived in church offices towards the end of the 20th century, it launched a timesaving revolution with regard to mundane tasks like bulletin preparation. It also provided some genuinely funny moments. One of them happened at a church that...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Blessed to be a blessing.” That turn of phrase never actually appears on the pages of Scripture. But it’s an accurate summation of God’s ongoing plan to rescue our broken world. God will bless a particular individual, who will in turn become the conduit of God’s...
