by Jeremy | Apr 5, 2013 | Sabbath Thoughts
I love my smartphone. The more I use it, the more I am convinced that its capacity to both save and waste time is nearly limitless. I have an app, for instance, that tells me when the sun and moon rise and set on a given date anywhere in the world. Did you know that...
by Jeremy | Mar 23, 2013 | Sabbath Thoughts
“Peace.” In the New King James Version of the Bible, that word appears in nearly 400 distinct verses. It’s a topic God inspired the writers of the Bible to focus heavily on, perhaps because it is a subject so integral to the human condition. Ever since the first man...
by Jeremy | Mar 15, 2013 | Sabbath Thoughts
Wolfgang Engels was a man on the wrong side of a wall. Conscripted into the East German army, nineteen-year-old Wolfgang Engels found himself tasked with placing barbed wire alongside the infamous Berlin wall as a deterrent to all those who might be considering a...
by Jeremy | Mar 9, 2013 | Sabbath Thoughts
“Tomorrow” is a strange concept. No matter how close you come to it, you’ll never actually reach it—because once that clock ticks over to midnight, what was once tomorrow becomes today, and tomorrow takes a 24-hour step away from you. It’s an unattainable goal, always...
by Jeremy | Mar 2, 2013 | Sabbath Thoughts
August 23, 1973 was a normal day at work for employees of Stockholm, Sweden’s Kreditbanken—normal, at least, until Jan-Erik Olsson entered the bank with a gun. For six days, he and his friend Clark Olofsson held four employees of the bank hostage while making the...
