Dr. Ron J. Bigalke

Endurance under sail, Antarctic Ocean, c. 1915 Paget colour photograph by Frank Hurley (The “I Am” Sayings) In August 1914, he set sail for his third trip to the South Pole. Shackleton departed from London with 27 men (and their dogs) aboard his ship, the Endurance . In January 1915, his ship became trapped in sea ice off the coast of Antarctica, and the crew was compelled to vacate the ship, which was eventually crushed. Shackleton and his men were marooned upon four feet of ice covering...

The Thunderbird application has five default tags for messages: important, work, personal, to do, and later. The tags serve as reminders to maintain a proper perspective each day, to identify which tasks are the priority. John 11 reveals how Jesus’ sense of urgency is fundamentally different from the average person. “Now a certain main was sick, Lazarus of Bethany” (v. 1a). His two sisters, Mary and Martha, sent word of the illness to Jesus. Next are what seem to be irreconcilable statements:...

(The “I Am” Sayings) To destroy something is generally easier than the act of creation, for the latter necessitates careful arrangement and effort to achieve a specific outcome. The scientific concept of entropy—or the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that natural processes tend to progress toward a greater degree of disorder or randomness over time—is one of the most observable facts of life. From physical structures to personal relationships, building something requires...