INSIGHTS MAGAZINE CANADA
Confusion
by Chuck Swindoll
One of the toughest assignments in life is to communicate clearly what happened during a time when emotions were high. People who “fall in love” can hardly describe it. Those who went through a calamity or experienced a sudden loss often convey the information in a confused manner. The same is true for people who were involved in car accidents. The following is a series of actual quotes taken from insurance or accident forms. Believe it or not, they are the actual words of troubled people who tried to summarize their encounters.
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Jellyfish Ministry
by Steve Johnson
Recently while in Cuba I walked along a beautiful beach and came upon a jellyfish that had washed ashore. It seems high winds and strong currents had pushed hundreds of them toward the shore with many being cast up on the sand to await death.
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When the Bible is Offensive
by Steve Callaway
The Bible is offensive! Come again, you say. If you, like I was, were a frequent Sunday school attendee in your formative years this statement may be shocking. The Jesus I met there was a slightly effeminate blonde flannelgraph figure who spent His spare time hosting hilltop luncheons, burping babies, calming storms, and handing out healing and happiness like lollipops all the while emitting a strange radioactive glow. But all this changed when I read through the Bible for myself.
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How to Cross Communication Barriers
by Scott Tolhurst
Parenting is a crash course in cross-cultural communication. If you want to communicate across the barriers of language, age, or context, don't take a seminar—have a child!
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Creamed by a Dairy Truck
by Phil Callaway
I wish you could meet Jim and Jean Southworth. They're my kind of people. No one understands better than the Southworths that no matter how tough things get there's always light at the end of the tunnel. Even if it's coming from the headlights of a truck. At 5:30 one morning, Jim, Jean, and their three children were sound asleep inside their home on a peaceful residential street in Salem, Oregon. Their eldest son had just poured himself a drink in the kitchen before heading back to bed.
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Forgiveness
by Help Me Understand
There are times I wonder if I really understand forgiveness and times where I know I don't. For the most part I can tell someone who has done me wrong “I forgive you,” and really mean it. Where I have trouble is when that person has wronged someone I love. How do I forgive those who walk out on their families? And those people who hurt defenceless children? And what about those who talk maliciously behind others' backs? How am I supposed to just let that go?
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