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Officials in Brussels, Belgium said there has been a delay in starting repairs to the streets of the city. They said underground tunnels beneath the city are crumbling, and the roadways are in poor shape, and rather than blame bureaucracy, the officials told parliament that problem is mice. During a…

Ken Slusher says he received such a large bill that it would be funny, if it wasn’t creating problems for them to finance a new home. Their cell phone provider sent them a bill for $2 million for one month of service. He says the problems began when they switched carriers, and the first bill was six…

When Marvin Olasky moved to a new home in Asheville, North Carolina, he was not aware of the presence of poison ivy on his new property. Soon he was itching, blistering, oozing, and miserable enough to see the Doctor. The doctor prescribed 12 days of prednisone pills, one of the side effects is insomnia.…

A Florida college student conducting a casual search on Google found out that he was wanted for murder. Zachary Garcia is a University of Florida student who works at a sandwich shop. The other Zachery Garcia (spelled with an “e” instead of an “a” before the ry) is a Florida teen accused of murder. After…

Influential pastor, Rick Warren, cites the five biggest problems on earth that he believes we must solve, and indeed can solve, with God's guidance. • Millions don't know Jesus. • There is a shortage of qualified leaders. • Half of the world's population lives in poverty. • Millions of people die every…

And I don’t know of any time in our history when our nation needed to be lifted up by God more than it does today. I don’t know if you’ve been noticing or not, but, we’ve got problems. One website I visited this week listed the top five. Want to hear what they listed? The #5 problem: Government size…

Omniscience Whenever I think about the omniscience of God, I usually get very uncomfortable. To think that God knows everything about me usually makes me think of my sinfulness and short comings. Scriptures like Galatians 6:7 that says, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth,…

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems; it's whether it has the same problems it had last year. Statesman John Foster Dulless, 1888-1959, quoted in Sam Horn, POP, New York: A Perigee Book, 2006, p. 217)

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein

ARGUMENTS A disagreement between the city council and a local business means that residents of the Pennsylvania community of Duncannon have a 4-foot potted Christmas tree instead of the 20-foot tree they have used for the past eight years. The 20-foot tree had already been decorated when Kirk Nace, a…

I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone? What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets? What if we flipped through it several time a day? What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it? What if we used it to receive messages from the text? What if…

Four observations David Jeremiah After years of watching Christians miss opportunities God has set before them, though, I can offer four observations about why we don’t walk through God’s open doors. First, opportunities are often disguised as problems. It was the brilliant cartoon philosopher Pogo who…

Shortly after I became a Christ follower an older man challenged me to find key verses in the Bible that might speak to specific situations that I would find myself in through the course of a normal day. After identifying those critical verses and linking them to the challenges that may come my way,…

[1] PROVERBS 24:16 Albert Einstein once said, "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." He may have understated his intelligence, but he does so to make a point: For more than any other reason, he was successful because he was persistent. I'm no Albert Einstein, but I…

John C. Maxwell Successful people do not have less challenging lives than those who do not succeed. In fact, they may go through even greater challenges. What causes the separation? Successful people respond to difficulties differently. It’s easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way.…

"The Paradox of Our Time" The paradox of our time in history is that: We have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less. We buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have…