(This post is adapted from a sermon for the second Sunday of Advent. It is based on Isaiah 40:1-11 and Mark 1:1-8. All scripture quotations are taken from the Common English Bible, 2011.) There are plenty of voices crying out in our world today. These voices are crying: Lord, hel...
currently centering our soul on Broadway at the Barrymore Theatre. Overlapping with one another to great effect by a cast of excellent pros, “the greatest American play ever written“, as described by Edward Albee, assembles itself on that wide stage like a church choir singing its sermon, ...
sneezing all the way. I had terrible allergies that went haywire from the smell of grass and gas that filled my nostrils. Keep in mind that there was no guard to keep grass or dirt or rocks from spraying you while you cut. I regularly got nicked on the shins from whatever debris...
Our most commonly heard request in marketing coaching calls is, "How do I generate more leads?" They've heard all sorts of advice, gotten all sorts of prices from various media and seen a variety of approaches, and they even get a sermon from me on the topic. It doesn't matter - ...
You could hear cows mooing and smell the barn in the milk section. In the egg aisle, chickens were cackling and the chicken coop was in the air, and it was even better in the vegetable section - you could literally hear the farmers and smell the fields! "Wow, that sounds incredible!"...
could smell him. I read once that scent is the thing that draws us together, that we don’t know it but that’s what makes us desire another person. But I knew. I’d known it as a seventeen-year-old and I knew it then.
His favorite saver: "Maybe that one will catch you on the way home."The other technique is to just keep on keeping on. One of my all-time favorite inspirational speakers once gave a sermon on sex. The funny quotes she told at the beginning left the audience speechless. She handled her...
The senses of taste and smell bring us pic- tures of flavor and perfume while the sense of touch pre- sents to our mind such tactile sensations as heat, cold, damp, rough, sharp, soft, smooth, and so on. Everyone has the ability to see pictures in his mind. Imagination is well ...
Joseph Nkwain, of the village of Subum in northwestern Cameroon, awoke one summer’s night to find he could barely breathe because of a terrible smell. He heard his still-sleeping daughter “…snoring in a terrible way, very abnormal,” he later said. While struggling to walk to her bed...
CARL: How can I help you, Officer? TROOPER: Is this a new car then sir? CARL: It certainly is, Officer. Still got that smell TROOPER: You’re required to display temporary tags, either in the plate area or taped to the inside of the back window. ...