Views: 76The hymn “Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus,” United Methodist Hymn 462 (GBH 162), was written by Louisa M.R. Stead. Biographical information on Miss Stead is very scanty, but the “Blue Letter Bible” website has it that she was born around 1850 in Dover, England; and died in Penkridge, Zimbabwe on January 18, […]

Views: 62I went out to get a slow puncture fixed this morning, but I realized the young man who was working on the tire took an unusually long time to remove it. I happened to be around him when he was fixing the tire back, and observed he was using a bar whose tip was […]

Views: 50A “Placebo” is a medicine or procedure prescribed for the psychological benefit to the patient rather than for any physiological effect. It is a substance that has no therapeutic effect. Simply put, a placebo is a medicine which is not a medicine. You are being made to believe it is medicine, because you falsely […]

Views: 56 “We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works […]

Views: 59There are many who believe that certain things run in their families, and are also made to believe there is nothing they can do about it. So they do nothing about it, but wait for it to happen. And when it happens, they say: “Aha, I knew it was coming.” I remember I was […]

Views: 69Statistics from US census bureau shows that between 1947 and 2020, married households have declined from almost 80% to below 50%; nonfamily households have increased from around 10 % to about 35%; and other family households from about 10% to a bit above 15%. This trend suggests an increasing breakdown in the traditional family […]