Category: in a nutshell
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In a Nutshell
Tidbits – 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. He compared different types of music to different types of plates. Maybe the easiest question…
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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…
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In a NutshellTidbits – August 2023
All sorts of time to talk with God Some years ago a friend told me about a plan she had put into motion – she’d…