From Wikipedia:
Origins
A ticket to “Washing the Lions” in London from 1857. This traditional April Fools prank is first recorded in 1698.
In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1392), the “Nun’s Priest’s Tale” is set Syn March bigan thritty dayes and two. Modern scholars believe that there is a copying error in the …
How can I teach my kids the meaning of Christmas?
The best and most effective way to teach children the meaning of Christmas is to approach them at their own level of understanding and build upon that understanding as they age. Christmas is the time we commemorate the …
Victims of Modern Day Slavery
Spread across South Asia is a forgotten people group too numerous to count. They’re despised by their countrymen and viewed as subhuman. Even the shadows they cast are believed to be contaminated. These people are the Dalits (“Untouchables”) of South Asia.
A Dalit’s …
“Time On His Hands With Nothing To Do”
“Idleness is the enemy of the soul.”
St. Benedict
Have I ever gotten into unseen trouble when I had time on my hands with nothing to do?
“To have too much to do is for most (people) safer than to have too …
This is an 8 minute STAND_ALONE film. It deals with several unbelievable “hidden” truths in the very first verse of the Bible. They have been there for over 3,000 years! Watch the film until the end…the suprises continue until the last moment! …
Sharing a very appropriate “daily message”……
February 24, 2010
God‘s Cleats
Rachel Olsen
“Wisdom and money can get you almost anything, but only wisdom can save your life.” Ecclesiastes 7:12 (NLT)
Devotion:
The Vancouver Olympics have me glued to my TV. Figure skating, downhill skiing, snowboarding, even curling – I’ll watch …
The persecution of Christians in the U.K. and the United States is heating up like never before. Street preachers are being told it is against the law to hand out tracts and read the Bible in public, school officials are threatened with prison for praying over a meal and prison …