Category: in a nutshell
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In a NutshellTidbits – July 2023
When they call God “she” Remaking God in their image, homosexual “pastors” are professing Him to be a “her.” That’s blasphemy by God’s standards, of…
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In a NutshellTidbits – June 2023
Those wild and crazy Vikings! You may have learned in school that Vikings visited North America long before Christopher Columbus did, but I bet you…
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In a NutshellTidbits – May 2023
Get ready to be reviled “Pastors need to teach their people about how to handle with grace being looked down on more than ever before….
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In a NutshellTidbits – April 2023
Media-created news If you feel a need to know all that’s going on in the world around you, it’s important to understand how little the…
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In a NutshellTidbits – March 2023
Why is so much Christian fiction bad? Back in the June 30, 2007 issue of WORLD magazine, Marvin Olasky “interviewed” the long-departed novelist Flannery O’Connor…
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In a NutshellTidbits – February 2023
What Darwin didn’t know Darwin, ignorant of the inner workings of the cell, could imagine them to be simple. But the more we learn of…
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In a NutshellTidbits – December 2022
Just ain’t the same “Watching church on a livestream is like watching a fireplace on TV: you can see everything with no warmth.” – Charlie…
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In a NutshellTidbits – November 2022
Chesterton saw it coming… A hundred years ago, in the Aug 14, 1926 edition of the Illustrated London News, G.K. Chesterton wrote a column that…
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In a NutshellTidbits – August 2022
Great Communicator on communication and diaper changes Ronald Reagan was nicknamed “The Great Communicator” for his ability to connect with his listening audience. But that…
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In a NutshellTidbits – June 2022
If you ain’t Dutch… Readers from a Dutch background are undoubtedly familiar with the slogan, “if you ain’t Dutch, you ain’t much.” Those same readers…
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In a NutshellTidbits – May 2022
A gentle answer to a rude question Christian comedian Phil Callaway recently told a story about a lady who thoughtlessly questioned whether he should ever…
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In a NutshellTidbits – April 2022
Treasure your parents, pastors, and good teachers “You don’t live long enough to learn from experience.” – Jewish proverb “We frequently know more, not because…
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In a NutshellTidbits – March 2022
Junior knows best? In a recent review, Roman Catholic film critic Steven D. Greydanus argues that we’re seeing an expansion of the old doofus/domineering dad…
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In a NutshellTidbits – January 2022
On books “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx When…
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In a NutshellTidbits – December 2021
Seasonal dad joke When a hotel sponsored a chess tournament they held it in their main lobby. That was a mistake, as it turned out…
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In a NutshellTidbits – November 2021
Chesterton on whether love is blind The world tells us that we shouldn’t try to change those we love, that if we really love them…
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In a NutshellTidbits – October 2021
Evolving “facts” When a student visited his old university during a 20-year reunion he discovered that his old Evolutionary Science professor was still working there….
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In a NutshellTidbits – August 2021
Now, that’s a Nicaean pun! A self-described “heretic,” famous for formerly being the lead singer of a popular Christian band, got some attention this summer…
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In a NutshellTidbits – July 2021
Is it in the Bible? Many common phrases either have their origins in the Bible, or are direct quotes from the Bible. But some phrases…
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In a NutshellTidbits – June 2021
Proverbs for social media Solomon was born 3,000 years before tweets and status updates became a thing, yet his wisdom applies all the same. “Sin…
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In a NutshellTidbits – May 2021
Walter Williams on his income inequality with Michael Jordan Does the tenth commandment still apply if our neighbor is Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, or Michael…
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In a NutshellTidbits – April 2021
Richer than you knew Today’s complaints about “income inequality” mask the fact that, in the West, anyone who can afford a smartphone is richer than…
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In a NutshellTidbits – March 2021
On mundane faithfulness… “Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help mum do the dishes.” – P. J. O’Rourke Francis Schaeffer on being a…
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In a NutshellTidbits – February 2021
Sign seen on a… Whatever your business, there’s a pun for you. Here are some signs that probably never were but definitely should be… IRS…
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In a NutshellTidbits – January 2021
Silent Cal speaks American president Calvin Coolidge was so close-lipped his nickname was “Silent Cal.” A popular joke told about him had an attractive young…
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In a NutshellTidbits – December 2020
A million monkeys “Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would…
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In a NutshellTidbits – November 2020
Famous phrases from the Bible The influence of God’s Word on our culture is such that even those who have never cracked open a Bible…
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In a NutshellTidbits – October 2020
Move just one stick to fix the equation I thought there were three right answers, but after posting a version of this to Facebook, friends…
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In a NutshellTidbits – September 2020
When the pastor fell asleep Maybe you already knew that Charles Spurgeon was called the “Prince of Preachers,” with more than 3,500 published sermons. But…
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In a NutshellTidbits – August 2020
What would King Solomon do? A policeman arrested two men and confiscated a pair of loaded dice. In court, each man accused the other of…
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In a NutshellTidbits – July 2020
Translation that busts a gut “During my time of study in Amsterdam several decades ago, I personally experienced this challenge of translation. One day I…
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In a NutshellTidbits – June 2020
Is this love? How can a parent help put a daughter’s crushes in the right context? How can we help her view this boy with…
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In a NutshellTidbits- May 2020
Graphic Pictures… The image is outrageous, but the act itself’s okay? That picture’s met with fury… But, the killing is okay? Imagine our sheer terror,…
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In a NutshellTidbits – April 2020
Are we only after better-behaved pagans? Christians have made a habit of advocating for Christians positions without advocating for them as Christian positions. So we…
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In a NutshellTidbits – March 2020
It’s so easy to get things wrong While doing evangelism, Christian apologist Ray Comfort will often ask his conversational partner a series of quick trick…
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In a NutshellTidbits – February 2020
Lightbulb moment I was in my 4th-year neurophysiology course, learning about the brain, when the professor used a curious word: “think.” As in, this is…