Winston knows he rsquo s not supposed to chew them So he rsquo s adopted a sly strategy We call it slow-walking If Winston spies a discarded unguarded shoe he rsquo ll casually meander in that direction grab it and just keep walking Slowly Nothing to see here Right out the door if no one notices ldquo Uh Mom Winston just slow-walked your shoe out the door rdquo It rsquo s apparent that sometimes we think we can ldquo slow-walk rdquo our sin past God We rsquo re tempted to think that He won rsquo t notice It rsquo s [... more]

The letter from ldquo Jason rdquo an inmate surprised my wife and me We ldquo foster rdquo puppies to become service dogs assisting people with disabilities One such puppy had graduated to the next training phase which was run by prisoners who have been taught how to train the dogs Jason rsquo s letter to us said ldquo Snickers is the seventeenth dog I rsquo ve trained and she is the best one When I see her looking up at me I feel like I rsquo m finally doing something right rdquo Jason isn rsquo t the only one with [... more]

Recently I found myself someplace I rsquo d seen in movies and on TV more times that I could count Hollywood California There in the foothills of Los Angeles those enormous white letters marched proudly across that famous hillside as I viewed them from my hotel window Then I noticed something else down to the left was a prominent cross I rsquo d never seen that in a movie And the moment I left my hotel room some students from a local church began to share Jesus with me We might sometimes think of Hollywood as only the epicenter of [... more]

In the late s a young man discovered a mysterious depression on Nova Scotia rsquo s Oak Island Guessing that pirates mdash perhaps even Captain Kidd himself mdash had buried treasure there he and a couple of companions started digging They never found any treasure but the rumor took on a life of its own Over the centuries others continued digging at the site mdash expending a great amount of time and expense The hole is now more than feet meters deep Such obsessions betray the emptiness in the human heart A story in the Bible shows how one man [... more]