by Gary Hargrave | Feb 10, 2025 | Blog
The New Year for Trees When Mark Twain visited the Holy Land in 1867, he described the land of Israel as “rocky and bare, repulsive and dreary. … There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had...
by Gary Hargrave | Feb 3, 2025 | Blog
Often turmoil is required to bring a new lifestyle. A nice calm household can have a newborn baby, and you think, “Oh, a new life.” You started a family, but it comes with turmoil. You get that baby home, and you do not know what to do with it. Now you...
by Gary Hargrave | Feb 1, 2025 | Study Guide
A Traditional Indian Folktale There is a familiar folktale about six blind men examining an elephant. This parable goes as follows: There were once six blind men who stood by the road-side every day, and begged from the people who passed. They had often heard...
by Gary Hargrave | Jan 27, 2025 | Blog
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Nazi Germany. January 27, 1945, was a day of deliverance for thousands of Jews as Soviet soldiers from the 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front opened the front...
by Gary Hargrave | Jan 20, 2025 | Blog
As a visionary leader, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was devoted to achieving social justice through prayer and peaceful means. In his own words he declared, “When we allow freedom [to] ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state...
