by Dean Merrill | Mar 17, 2019 | Articles
What’s the busiest month of the year? Obviously, December, with all the shopping, partying, concertgoing, and traveling. What’s the second busiest month of the year? I nominate May. School projects and finals, then graduations, spring sports for kids...
by Dean Merrill | Mar 17, 2019 | Articles
Zipping out of our bedroom the other day, I glanced again at a framed poem on the wall. I wrote it years ago on an American Airlines flight from Dallas back to New York, and two Christian magazines picked it … Read more...
by Dean Merrill | Mar 17, 2019 | Articles
Guess what: Yet another new Bible translation is being rolled out this summer. The big announcement came a week or so ago at the International Christian Retail Show in Atlanta. Actual copies will be on sale by Labor Day. Have … Read more...
by Dean Merrill | Mar 17, 2019 | Articles
On a hot day in Samaria, Jesus said something odd to his disciples as they returned from a quick trip to the sandwich shop. The morning’s travel had left them all thirsty and hungry, so much that Jesus was “tired … Read more...
by Dean Merrill | Mar 17, 2019 | Articles
Some mornings when you open your inbox, you wish you hadn’t. An update arrived last week from a couple who are lifelong friends of ours, telling that the wife’s Stage IV cancer is now clearly winning the war. These people … Read more...
by Dean Merrill | Mar 17, 2019 | Articles
A seven-year-old climbs in the minivan after attending a birthday party. “Did you have fun?” his mother asks. A star quarterback tells the after-game interviewer, “We said at halftime, ‘We’re too uptight. Let’s just go out there and have fun, … Read more...
