The bacon phenomenon is a perfect storm of internet memes. Bacon meme experts say there is no single point of origination, but in tracking the popularity one is led along a path that includes things like: The Bacon Explosion recipe (a checkerboard of bacon used as a wrapping for sausage and, more bacon); the Atkins diet, which … [Read more...]
9 Reasons to Teach Hope
Hope is underrated and under-utilized. Its middle-child billing in 1 Corinthians 13 (faith, hope, and love) seems to makes it easier to ignore since, well, it’s not love, which we’re told, is the greatest of the three. Yet, hope is the driver of faith and the inspiration to persevere, which is something we need to do every day. … [Read more...]
School-Year Prayers
You’d think that key prayers and teachings in Scripture were prayed and delivered with the American school year in mind. And, well, they might have been, given God’s omniscience. The child and teen years are years of significant spiritual formation. And in the course of a school year students spend a big chunk of their waking … [Read more...]
Seeing the Golden Rule in the Golden Sludge
Maybe you saw the pictures…gold-colored sludge oozing its way down the Animas River in Colorado caused by a breach in a dam at an abandoned gold mine. Workers were doing maintenance on the mine on August 5, 2015 and accidentally destroyed a dam holding back a retention pond that contained waste water from the mine. Reports say … [Read more...]
Five Quick Tips for Personal Bible Study
Does your personal Bible time needs some encouragement? Let these tips serve as a booster to spark some inspiration and motivation for the most important thing you can do in a day: listen to God through His Word. 1. Start a Quest Meaningful Bible study is hard to achieve with a casual or haphazard … [Read more...]
A Moment for Holy Wow
Stop what you’re doing. Take 10 minutes to breathe in a verse of God’s Word, Ephesians 2:10. Consider it a personal flash mob devotional moment. There is some Wow to be had in this verse. First the whole verse, then we’ll step into it phrase-by-phrase. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus … [Read more...]