They say that death and taxes are inevitable. They are. But so is the certainty of God’s people grumbling. During the forty years in the wilderness, Israel complained, whined, and protested with such frequency that like a gemstone in a sand tumbler, it transformed grumbling into an art form.

“Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.” (Revelation 3:4 /ESV) Can you imagine receiving a personal letter from Jesus? Exciting, right? Can you imagine the...

“Houston, we’ve had a problem…” Command module pilot Jack Swigert, Jr. uttered what might be one of the greatest understatements of the 20th century as oxygen leaked from the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft as it hurtled toward the moon at 25,000 miles per hour. A number of seemingly insignificant events should have warned NASA of the impending catastrophe, but no one put the pieces together in time.