Cyndi and I could barely talk as we watched the horror that unfolded in Texas early Saturday morning from the safety of our family room. The loss of life was overwhelming. And the tragedy of losing children overloaded our senses. The disaster was unimaginable. I...
A lot has happened in our companion book this past week. Author Mitch Albom is expertly building the drama of the miracle phone calls, orchestrating several threads at once, including background on the delivery mechanism. The telephone. Albom shared that one time,...
When I searched for the word “validation” on Google, I was shown definitions from Oxford Languages, the search engine’s default go-to dictionary. Two of their bullet points seemed relevant to this week’s theme. The first tells us that validation is “the action of...
When a stone hits calm water, ripples spread out from the center of impact, telling the further reaches of the lake what has happened. They say news, good or bad, travels fast. The news begins as a single source, but as the ripples spread further, the news is...
Is it real? This is a common question asked by skeptics, even if they’re hopeful, the answer is yes. And when it comes to heaven, there are few questions in life that carry the weight of this question. In this week’s chapters from our companion book, The First Phone...
What do you think happens when we die? Late Show host Stephen Colbert occasionally asks this question to guests on his show in an episode called "The Colbert Questionert." The celebrities interviewed by Colbert provide a variety of responses, offering a glimpse into...
In our worship series, Lifeboat, we learn about a group of people desperately clinging to life after the yacht they were on sank. Three days after the accident, after drifting a considerable distance from where the boat went down, they pull a stranger into the...
As we come to the last episode of our Lifeboat series, we reach the end of our companion book, The Stranger in the Lifeboat. Mitch Albom treats us to a surprise ending. It was Benji who took the explosions on board the Galaxy. His goal was to kill the owner, Jason...
“Fabrication” is used a lot in manufacturing to refer to the process of producing a product. The word refers to the idea of creating something from raw materials. The word also refers to fabricating a story or telling an outright lie. When a person lies, they’re often...
Higher prices on essential items disproportionately affect families with lower incomes more than those with higher incomes. While most of us can put off buying things we can do without, many essentials cannot be delayed for very long. Certainly not long enough for the...