Maybe you’ve heard of Roy Riegels, better known as “Wrong Way Roy.” In the 1929 Rose Bowl, he got mixed up and ran sixty-nine yards in the wrong direction. It’s been the worst blunder in college football history. Well, he reminds me of “Wrong Way Jonah,” who ran off toward Tarshish when God told him […]
Sibling rivalry is sometimes as innocent as the competition between brothers who are NFL quarterbacks or sisters who are tennis champions. But on other occasions, sibling rivalry can be tragic. Consider the biblical story of Jacob and Esau, twin sons of Isaac. In the womb, they struggled with each other. In life, they fought. In
When Paul Harvey gave his famous speech, “So God Made a Farmer,” at a 1978 convention of the Future Farmers of America, he began: “God said, ‘I need someone willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, and then go to town and stay
In these days when we fear a coming global economic apocalypse, it’s important to be familiar with the message of Joel, a prophet who dealt with economic calamity and its aftermath. In Joel’s day, the monetary devastation was caused by locusts, which could destroy a nation’s economy overnight. When swarms of locusts descended on an
Unfaithfulness mars many a marriage, and some homes don’t survive the trauma; yet God’s grace can step into even the hardest spots. In the book of Hosea, we have a poignant story of a prophet married to a prostitute, and of a husband’s undying love. The love story between Hosea and his wife Gomer symbolizes