“I figured I was just one number away from getting rich,” said Jay, a salesman. His gambling career started with Lotto and Win 4. His bets were only about $10 a week at first. Then, one week he hit on five of six Lotto numbers and won $2,000. His spending on lottery tickets spiked to $10 a day. Before long, […]
I love watching video footage taken by a drone! At first, the camera gives me a close-up of someone on the ground. Then suddenly it lifts off, and the person rapidly shrinks in an expanding picture. As the drone gains height, the figure becomes a dot in a huge panorama. Yet I’ve seen this person […]
My maternal grandmother came from a wealthy family. Her Hungarian ancestors moved from Slovakia to Transylvania and worked hard to establish themselves. Soon the family owned a huge orchard, vineyards, land, and a beautiful house. The orchard was especially productive. One year the family business won an award in a produce exhibition with apples the […]
While the bad news might be that you are in terrible debt, the good news is that you are not going to make it into the Guinness World Records as the first person to get out of debt! Many, many have done it before. Here are eight tips they have used: 1. Treat the root […]
When I was a child, our neighborhood was safe, and I played outside every day with my friends. We used our creativity and imagination, enhanced our problem-solving skills, and developed healthy bodies. But by the time my son was growing up, I rarely saw neighborhood children playing outside. The trend had shifted, and the outdoors […]
We all know that too much technology is bad for children. Children of the 21st century can navigate distant worlds from their video game controllers but are not equipped with an understanding of the real world outside their window. Fascinating entertainment options have them hooked almost as soon as they can focus their eyes. Parents and […]
It was American psychologist B. F. Skinner’s famous studies with rats and rewards that have helped us understand why it is so easy for humans to get hooked on digital media. Of course, there were no digital devices at the time Skinner was doing research, but there was gambling. It is now well known in […]
In the book of Galatians, Paul warned his converts: “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from […]
The plot of any good thriller concludes when the villain is vanquished and the hero destroys his evil regime. But when Christ is finally victorious over the devil and evil, the story is still not over! That’s why the book of Revelation doesn’t end with chapter 20, which describes the awful and eternal second death […]
I used to be a murder victim! Some of you are already asking, “How can you be a murder victim and still be alive?” It’s because the killers didn’t kill me. They killed my children. Two young men entered my house one evening and gunned them down. Like so many other crimes that leave victims […]