Reading Time: 3 minutes “Hocus Pocus”, “Abracadabra”, “Shazam”, and “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo!” Even a cursory scan of the top-grossing movies of recent years would reveal that we have a fascination with all things magical, mysterious and supernatural. Why is this? Some would attribute this inclination to an insidious plot of our ancient foe, but I think…
Reading Time: 5 minutes No, this is not an article of the #MeToo Movement. Such a title might well evoke a host of loaded meanings, but no, this article doesn’t really have to do with the masculine gender at all. I use men in the generic and older use of the term, merely meaning…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Look around you now, wherever you are. Take notice of the straight, vertical lines all around you. Have you ever noticed them before – the legs on the table, the straight line of the corners in your room, the lines in the tile, the sides of a picture frame? They’re…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Step outside on a clear evening and ponder with me for a moment that faithful witness of the night, the moon. I have often been struck by the fact that when I read the words of some ancient writer, musing over our nearest celestial neighbor, or see some piece of…
Reading Time: 3 minutes I sat spellbound as did everyone else in the audience that night. The lights went out and almost all we could see were about two dozen white-gloved hands, seemingly suspended in the air above the stage before us, each holding a drum stick. We were watching an exhibition of military…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Eleven to fourteen million people visit Niagara Falls every year, and they come from all over the world. I would venture to guess that people from almost every nation have made the trip to those stoney shores just to stare at them. They take pictures of this colossal dumping of…
Reading Time: 4 minutes I watched with that strange mixture of fascination and disgust, as the nature documentary showed footage of a cheetah stalking, chasing, and taking down a young antelope. It’s hard not to marvel at the speed and agility of these mighty cats of the African plains. But there was also that…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The happy major chord is made up of three notes, a first, a third and a fifth, but it’s the second of the three notes that give it its distinctive cheerful sound. Take away the third and the chord becomes ambiguous, neither happy nor sad, it can go either way. …
Reading Time: 4 minutes We have been taught that the things all around us are silent, mute objects that “just are.” But the word of God tells us that “the heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge.” (Ps. 19:1-2 NKJV).
