The sound of the drill terrified five-year-old Sarah She leaped out of the dentist rsquo s chair and refused to get back in Nodding understandingly the dentist told her father ldquo Daddy get into the chair rdquo Jason thought he was meant to show his daughter how easy it was But then the dentist turned to the little girl and said ldquo Now climb up and sit in Daddy rsquo s lap rdquo With her father now cradling her in his reassuring arms Sarah relaxed completely and the dentist was able to continue That day Jason learned a great lesson [... more]

Get sound advice on how to run the race of life and finish well [... more]

I used to dread Mondays Sometimes when I got off the train to head to a previous job I'd sit at the station for a while trying to delay reaching the building if only for a few minutes My heart would beat fast as I worried over meeting the deadlines and managing the moods of a temperamental boss For some of us it can be especially difficult to start another dreary workweek We may be feeling overwhelmed or underappreciated in our job King Solomon described the toil of work when he wrote ldquo What do people get for all the [... more]

In a World Cup qualifying match that pitted the US against Trinidad and Tobago the Soca Warriors shocked the world when they beat the US men rsquo s national team a team ranked fifty-six places higher The - upset eliminated the US team from the World Cup Trinidad and Tobago rsquo s victory was so unexpected in part because the United States rsquo population and resources dwarfed those of the small Caribbean nation But those seemingly insurmountable advantages weren rsquo t enough to defeat the passionate Soca Warriors The story of Gideon and the Midianites features a similar upset one [... more]