The advertisement says, “Buy one and get one free.”  What a deal!  You pay for the first, but that second one is free!  How could it be?  Can anything these days really be free?  It isn’t really free.  It is an advertising gimmick to get you to pay the full price for the first […]

     I got up early this morning because I had to go into work and see my boss off on a trip to Chengdu, China.  It was a cold, windy, and snowy Saturday morning and I would like to have stayed in my warm bed, but this was important to me.  My boss is escorting

     Last Sunday the Filipino Congregation said goodbye to two more blessers, as they leave for a new life in Canada.  As a group of foreigners working in Beijing, this is a regular occurrence, but this sendoff was different.  These are people who got involved and made a difference in the ministry and lives in

     The strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere just made landfall on the Mexican coast.  With high-tech tracking and computer models to predict its likely path, this storm didn’t come as a surprise. There is a long history of damage from hurricanes in that area and the people know death and destruction can take

With all the trouble we see in our nation and around the world, there are many who long for the good old days. I agree that some things were better in times past, but I don’t want to go back. Even if you could pick the place and the time, it would mean you and