Egyptian foods are healthy, delicious, and nutritious! Almonds and pistachios, cinnamon and mint…there’s also feta cheese, cucumbers, pomegranates, dates, and grapes…just to name a few of the foods Egyptians enjoy regularly. Egypt, which makes its home along the Nile River and its fertile basin, is able to grow much of its own food. Fresh fruit is abundant and readily available. ...

Bill Heid Our fathers’ God, to Thee, Author of liberty, to Thee we sing. —Samuel Francis Smith, “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” (1831) Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else. . . . —The Declaration of the Rights of Man, Article IV (1789) So What Exactly Is Liberty? The French Revolution handed Western civil ...

Hallmark Channel’s When Calls The Heart is a hit among families of faith, but as executive producer Brian Bird tells us in today’s edition of Entertainment Spotlight, it easily could have died before it started. The story of schoolteacher Elizabeth Thatcher and the people of Coal Valley was being made into a movie a decade ago but the 2008 financial ...

Jesus told us not to worry about the future, but very few of us are good at following his command. We worry about our finances. We worry about our family. We even worry about the weather. A new study guide by author and Bible teacher Laura Dingman seeks to help women live worry-free lives. It’s called This I Know: Trusting Your Unknown Future To A Known God (Moody), and it takes readers on a journey through Scripture to discover practical ways to change the way you look at life.

Good Friday And The Real Meaning Of The Cross Penal suffering in Scripture is released, or not inflicted upon the guilty, because it has been endured by a substitute.      —William Shed, Dogmatic Theology (1888-90)   The Need for the Cross Early on in the Bible we get some bad news. Our rebellion deserved divine wrath.  God is just and ...

Here’s what you need: a short basin a small clay or plastic planter soil small rocks one large flat rock grass seed or moss some sticks   Instructions: Fill basin with a thin layer of soil. Place the small clay planter in the basin and pour soil around it. You may want to wet the soil so that you can ...

A 68-year-old man sets a motorcycle record. Pancakes are made in public for the first time. And Edward Bellamy – the author of a major book on socialism – is born. It all happened the week of March 25, and it’s all discussed on this week’s edition of Providential History. March 25 One Direction, motorcycle speed record, homeschoolers lose major ...

Do violent images on television and in movies impact our children? Melissa Henson of the Parents Television Council says they do – and that the data proving that is overwhelming. Henson is this week’s guest on Words of Wisdom, as she joins us to discuss a new PTC study that showed violence on broadcast television has actually increased since the ...

If you’ve watched the television hit Downton Abbey, then you’ve seen James Faulkner in action – as Lord Sinderby, Rose Aldridge’s father-in-law. But as Faulkner himself will tell you, nothing compares to the role he plays in his latest film, Paul: Apostle of Christ, which opens Friday (March 23) nationwide. Faulkner plays the lead role of Paul, who in the film is sitting in a Roman prison and awaiting execution. Faulkner is this week’s guest on Entertainment Spotlight.

The opera Faust premiered. The first college basketball game was played. And a landmark in the history of homeschooling took place. It all happened the week of March 18 – and it’s all discussed on this week’s edition of Providential History.   March 18 William Henry Monk, soccer, John Cawood. https://s3.amazonaws.com/heirloomaudio/LTAClub/Podcasts/ProvidentialHistory/March2018/Providential_03-18-18.mp3   March 19 Faust, the first college basketball game, ...