The Tortoise and the Hare

Jan 21, 2013

I’m sure you have read or heard Aesop’s fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. The story concerns a hare that ridicules a slow-moving tortoise and is challenged by him to a race. The hare soon leaves the tortoise behind and, confident of winning, takes a nap midway through...

Jesus Versus Bo Peep

Jan 14, 2013

I have read some of the the histories of nursery rhymes and sometimes I’ve wonder what the writer was thinking. After all, nursery rhymes are for little kids. Take Ring Around The Rosy for instance. The history of this rhyme dates back to the Great Plague of...

New Year’s Resolution

Jan 1, 2013

New Years is a time where lots of people do some reflecting on their life over the past year. Often those reflections reveal some shortcomings or regrets and result in resolutions that are intended to ensure those shortcomings and things that caused regret won’t be...

Humility

Nov 11, 2012

  Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom was a Dutch Christian, who with her father and other family members helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. Her family was arrested due to an informant in 1944, and her father died 10 days later at...

Champion of the Underdog

Nov 4, 2012

Who doesn’t like a story about an underdog who comes out on top? How about these: The Tortoise and the Hare, The Little Engine that Could, Rocky, The Karate Kid, Forrest Gump, Rudy, Brave Heart. Watch this short video about an underdog named Jason McElwain, an...