Category: in a nutshell
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In a Nutshell
Tidbits – November 2026
How Big Government gets bigger While society insist God is dead, we know Man was made for worship, and it shouldn’t surprise us then, when the godless go looking for a god. In the face of uncertainties, sickness, or in…
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In a NutshellTidbits – October 2026
For sale, cheap: my New Kids on the Block CDs I once heard a wise older man teach his listening audience how to evaluate music….
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In a NutshellTidbits – August 2026
Great truths from small children Never hold a dustbuster and a cat at the same time. Only Grampa can make money come out of your…
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In a NutshellTidbits – July 2026
How he learned he needed to preach Mark 2:28 Some years ago, on an early Sunday morning, a young Dutch pastor faced a quandary. A…
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In a NutshellTidbits – June 2026
Done before the first down Notre Dame’s famed football coach Knute Rockne wasn’t above employing psychology to give his team an edge. A legend is…
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In a NutshellTidbits – May 2026
On logic Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr. Watson once went on a camping trip. Some hours after they lay down for the night…
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In a NutshellTidbits – April 2026
Some is better than none “There is nothing wrong with starting a hefty book like Calvin’s Institutes and only getting a hundred pages read. Think…
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In a NutshellTidbits – March 2026
Still true in some places… Johan had left Edmonton to go up northward, near Neerlandia, for a bit of skydiving. Late Sunday evening he was…
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In a NutshellTidbits – February 2026
For want of a comma In her best seller Eats, Shoots and Leaves, author Lynne Truss highlighed the importance of commas with the story of…
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In a NutshellTidbits – January 2026
Thrill seeking Ray Comfort is generally a pretty calm and tactful sort, but he has little patience for Christians who want to get a rush…
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In a NutshellTidbits – December 2025
Go Ukrainian While canvassing for money-saving ideas I came across one appropriate for this season. As many of our readers know, the Dutch traditionally exchange…
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In a NutshellTidbits – November 2025
Are you passing the baton? “My dad….made a great commitment in my life and had given me many things to pass on. His father had…
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In a NutshellTidbits – October 2025
No one even knows how to bake bread Our new Prime Minister is very sure he has just the right recipe to get the country’s…
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In a NutshellTidbits – September 2025
Ping Pong by Jay Adams “A soft answer turns away wrath. But a foolish word stirs up anger.” – Proverbs 15:1. Every time I read…
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In a NutshellTidbits – August 2025
Husbands, build up your wife R. Kent Hughes in Disciplines of a Godly Man, on Churchill at his very best: “Winston Churchill once attended a…
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In a NutshellTidbits – July 2025
Roses are red… They come in red, Also yellow. For the right gal, Risk red, fellow. Deep thoughts from Cookie Monster “It weird that we…
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In a NutshellTidbits – June 2025
A one-question test During an episode of the TV drama West Wing, the President of the United States has to figure out whether a boatload…
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In a NutshellTidbits – May 2025
Joke o’ the month Two cars were waiting at a stoplight. When the light turned green, the man in front didn’t seem to notice. The…
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In a NutshellTidbits – April 2025
Trying to have your cake and eat it too A carving on a Cambodian temple built around 800 years ago seems to depict a stegosaurus….
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In a NutshellTidbits – March 2025
C.S. Lewis on the danger of indulging in “outrage porn” The term “outrage porn” was coined by a New York Times writer, Tim Kreider to…
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In a NutshellTidbits – February 2025
Are there little green men? While there seems no biblical reason to preclude finding simpler life on other planets – plants and even animals –…
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In a NutshellTidbits – January 2025
Flying Duck Orchid God’s inventiveness is sometimes so shockingly inventive, it might make you laugh out loud. This is a real flower called the “Flying…
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In a NutshellTidbits – December 2024
Red flags apply to politics too John Piper thinks that deciding who you are going to vote for is a lot like picking out a…
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In a NutshellTidbits – November 2024
Burke’s best Most have probably run across Edmund Burke’s most famous quote: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men…
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In a NutshellTidbits – October 2024
How red tape kills wealth Some years back, Hernando de Soto wanted to discover why capitalism worked so well in the West, but didn’t seem…
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In a NutshellTidbits – September 2024
Lord of the Rings on dating If you’re having trouble mustering the courage to ask out the girl you’re interested in, just know you aren’t…
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In a NutshellTidbits – August 2024
English is a funny language Have you ever seen: • a shoe box? • a kitchen sink? • a ball park? • a home run?…
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In a NutshellTidbits – July 2024
7 debunked evolutionary “evidences” As Dr. Jonathan Wells has documented in his books Icons of Evolution and Zombie Science, there are long discredited “evidences” for…
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In a NutshellTidbits – June 2024
Good parenting is time-consuming In The New Tolerance, authors Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler recall the method one dad used to teach his teenage son…
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In a NutshellTidbits – April 2024
Benefit of boredom There’s a certain sort of belonging that comes out of boredom. One of my formative young experiences was spending four years in…
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In a NutshellTidbits – March 2024
The world’s only pro-life comedian? Nicholas De Santo is an Iranian-Italian who performs what he calls the “only pro-life stand-up act” which, he notes, also…
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In a NutshellTidbits – February 2024
Financial potty training While the illustration mentions a VCR tape, the point is as sharp as ever. The late Gary North (1941-2022) got this from…
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In a NutshellTidbits – January 2024
It was the best and worst of times “The Christian only has to endure this world, this is as bad as it gets for us….
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In a NutshellTidbits – December 2023
“You better watch out!” It’s nearing that time of year again, when you might hear the chorus of a familiar Bing Crosby hit. I always…
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In a NutshellTidbits – November 2023
Practice makes better I had a friend who makes it a point of pride not to open doors for women because. “Women are just as…
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In a NutshellTidbits – October 2023
Halloween in a small American town I live in a delightful and occasionally comical small town where the church-attending Christians make up a solid majority…
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In a NutshellTidbits – September 2023
Season your words “Every day, our words could write a book of 50-60 pages (cited by John MacArthur in his sermon ‘Exposing the Truth About…