Dread seeing family for the holidays? You are not being dramatic. Here is how to walk in with a plan, a limit and an exit, and what an old story adds.
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Hebrew Word for Yoke: What Does “Ol” Really Mean?
Ol (עֹל) is the Hebrew word for yoke: the crossbeam of forced labor in 1 Kings 12 and Jeremiah 28, and the picture behind Jesus’ “my yoke is easy.”
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Debt Relief Scam: How to Check a Promise to Cut Your Debt Before You Call Back
A court just ended an alleged debt relief scam that posed as banks. Here is how to spot a debt relief scam and check any promise to cut your debt before you pay.
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Slow Waves and Memory: Why Waves That Travel Alone Forget
Slow waves and memory: a new sleep study found deep-sleep brain waves that travel alone go with weaker overnight recall. What it shows, what it can’t yet say.
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New Believer Bible Study Questions: Luke Praised the Ones Who Checked
New believer Bible study questions are not a failure of faith. In Acts 17 Luke praised the people who checked the apostle, and belief followed.
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Unique Christian Gifts for Someone Moving Away: Leave a Witness
Unique Christian gifts for someone moving away work when they fit the new place, not the old one. The parting verse on Victorian lockets was originally a boundary clause between two men who didn’t trust each other.
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Who to Believe When Two People Tell Different Stories
Who to believe when two people tell different stories: the first version sounds fair because nothing has contradicted it yet. What to ask before you decide.
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Who Said “Between Stimulus and Response There Is a Space”? Not Frankl
“Between stimulus and response there is a space” is not in Viktor Frankl’s writing. Stephen Covey found it in a library book he never named. Here is the trail.
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Gangsta’s Paradise Meaning: The Psalm It Leaves Unfinished
Gangsta’s Paradise opens with a line from Psalm 23 and stops before the comfort. What Coolio’s 1995 hit borrowed from Stevie Wonder, and what it left out.
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Prayer for My Son: The Father Who Prayed for Himself Too
A prayer for my son you can pray tonight, and the one Gospel that keeps what the father actually said: have compassion on us, not him. It changes the ask.