by Morning Reflections | Jun 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
When I was growing up, some of the older boys in my school used to taunt me:“Old MacDonald had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-o!” It appears they were right, because it’s all come horribly true. I’m old. My name is McDonald. And I do indeed live on a farm –...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Norman Borlaug may be the most remarkable person you’ve never heard of. The American agronomist, who died in 2009 at the age of 95, revolutionized global food supplies. In the words of former Minnesota Senator Rudy Boschwitz, “Norman Borlaug is the first...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
According to Greek mythology, the seemingly invincible warrior Achilles was saddled with the original Achilles heel. His mother Thetis, in an effort to endow her infant with immortality, had dipped him into the river Styx.Unfortunately, his left heel never made...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
“The Lrod is naer to the broknehreated and svaes the crsuehd in siprit.” (Psalm 34:18)If you copy the words above as written, your spell-checker will throw a hissy fit.What’s interesting is that our brains have no problem making sense of them. Researchers...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
(c) Paramount Pictures 1956 No one remembers the first person who said it, but it really is a great line:God may have gotten his people out of Egypt, but his next job was far tougher: getting Egypt out of his people.According to the book of Exodus, there was nothing...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
(c) Southeast Christian Church Congregational leaders are currently wrestling with a question that no one alive has ever had to face:When the pandemic is finally behind us, will church attenders come back to church? There are good reasons for believing that the...
