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Unity Through Song Game 3 of the 2018 World Series set a record of the longest game in series history at 18 innings. The only people who were on the field working for the entire game were the umpires. The home plate umpire squatted and made a judgment call on 561 pitches over seven and a half hours! The apostle Paul urged the church at Colossae...

Persevere in Prayer Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympian in history with twenty-eight medals, twenty-three of them gold. This success did not happen by accident. At the peak of his training regimen, he spent in the pool five to six hours a day, six days a week. In addition, he lifted weights three days a week. Such dedication to...

Living in Christ The apostle Paul faced many setbacks in ministry. In 2 Corinthians, he describes some of the difficulties he endured: flogging, imprisonment, stoning, beatings, and shipwrecks, just to name a few (2 Cor. 11:23–28). At the climax of this list, he says he is daily concerned for all the churches (v. 28). When he heard about...

Treasures Can Be Hidden Hidden somewhere in the Rocky Mountains is the Fenn Treasure. Multi-millionaire Forrest Fenn hid more than one million dollars of gold and jewels, then in 2010 published a poem with nine clues for treasure hunters. He wanted to encourage people during a recession and “give hope to those who had a sense of adventure...

Treasures Can Take Many Forms Charles Spurgeon wrote in Morning and Evening about today’s verse that Mary’s reflections had engaged her whole being, including “her memory—she kept all these things; her affections—she kept them in her heart; [and] her intellect—she pondered them; so that memory, affection, and understanding, were all exercised...

Israel as God’s Treasured Possession There are many ways to treasure our memories. We collect souvenirs. We take photos or make videos to enjoy later, sharing them with family and friends via social media. We write about them in a personal diary or blog post, trying to capture for ourselves or others what was so special about the experience...

Saving God’s Treasured Possession Do you have a treasured possession? How did it gain that status? If you're a collector, it could be because the item is rare or valuable. You might treasure an otherwise ordinary object for personal reasons, like a child who loves a teddy bear because it was a gift from grandma. Or maybe the object, such...

Dishonest Treasure Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson is one of the most famous American adventure stories. The hero is a boy named Jim. The book includes many exciting pursuits, a ship full of pirates (including the mutinous Long John Silver), an island treasure map on which X marks the spot, and a strange man named Ben who lives...

Lamenting the Loss of Treasure A lament is a structured poetic expression of deep personal or communal grief, such as an elegy or funeral oration. By writing a lament, the poet intends, according to the Literary Study Bible, "to give full expression to the suffering of his people and the sorrows of his own soul." The lament shares memories...

Do Not Treasure Worthless Idols The prophet Isaiah was clearly familiar with Ancient Near Eastern practices related to idol-making. As described in the Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, a handcrafted idol could become regarded as divine through a special ritual known as "mouth washing," which "required the priest to whisper into the ear of...