Global tourism is a major world industry, generating about $1.5 trillion of revenue in 2019. Due to the pandemic, that decreased by about 65% in 2020. But tourism is steadily on the rise once again. For the past thirty years, the top country for tourism is France, with it’s museums, restaurants, quaint villages, beautiful beaches, […]
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On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Commons in England and said: “I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We
I recently read a story about an artist named Niggle. Niggle had a vision of a perfect tree and a beautiful countryside behind it, and he devoted his life to capturing this vision in a painting. He spent most of his career perfecting this painting, but there was one problem. After all these years, he
Archery is simple. You have a bow, an arrow, and a target. And sometimes, you only get one shot. This was true for William Tell.
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We were made for great stories. One of my favorite involves a young boy whose grandfather reads him a story when he is sick. It’s a story of love between a farm-boy and a farm-girl. It’s a story of “fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles…” But not too much kissing.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a pastor, scholar, and spy in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. He studied at Union Seminary in New York in the early 1930s, and many of his friends there urged him strongly to stay in America to avoid the war that was about to break out in Germany. But Bonhoeffer returned
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I spy with my little eye…something valuable in this room. Some have it. Some want it. Some have dreamed about it. But what is it?
C.S. Lewis once wrote: “This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues, and there’s a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life.”
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“If he gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond that will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.” This quotation is from the man known as the father of modern missions: William Carey. Carey and his wife
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The invasion of Ukraine remains much on our hearts and minds. It’s heartbreaking: Bombs destroying apartment complexes and homes; civilian casualties (even children); cities surrounded with no power and no water; over 1.5 million have fled the country. In the midst of the chaos, I’ve seen a beautiful picture of the church. On the day
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