There are six things that go into making milk chocolate: cocoa powder, cocoa butter, vanilla, lecithin, sugar, and powdered milk. If you want dark chocolate, which tastes more bitter, remove the milk. If you want white chocolate, remove the cocoa powder. In similar fashion, if you want chocolate peanuts, add peanuts. Chocolate toffee, add toffee. Every recipe has its ingredients. Take away an ...
Exceeding Expectations
Near the turn of the last century, America was at war with Spain, and President McKinley needed to get a message to a man named Garcia, who was the leader of a group of Cuban rebels. Unfortunately, no one seemed to know exactly where in the thick island jungle the rebels were hiding. It fell to a man named Rowan to carry a letter to Garcia from the President of the United States. Rowan took the ...
Ready, Set, Go
On January 8, 1956, five young missionaries were murdered on the shores of the Curaray River in eastern Ecuador by a group of particularly aggressive natives, known as the Huaorani. Ironically, the missionaries were trying to introduce those natives to the good news of Christ’s love. The story of their sacrifice became legendary within Christian circles and inspired an entire generation of ...
The Five Stages of Grief
In 1926, a set of female triplets was born in Zurich, Switzerland. The firstborn weighted only two pounds. Despite limited technology to care for such small infants, the triplets survived. During their teen years, Europe was in the midst of World War II, and the oldest became interested in relief work. She decided to study medicine, over her father’s vehement protests. Because he refused to help ...
Seeing is Believing?
A few years ago, I was reading an article in Biblical Archeology Review. The article was discussing a pottery shard that had been discovered near the ancient Philistine city of Gath. The shard dated back to the time of King David and was inscribed with the name, “Goliath.” Isn’t that incredible? I was ecstatic! Here was a secular discovery that helped confirm the Biblical account of David and ...
Victory Lap
For nearly eight hundred years by the time of Christ’s crucifixion, Roman generals had been celebrating their foreign victories by having elaborate parades through the streets of Rome. For one day only, a victorious general could ride on a chariot through the heart of the capital to great pomp and fanfare⎯the greater the victory, the greater the celebration. Sometimes there would be games to ...