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The Daily Bide is brought to you by a team of writers from Youth for Christ/USA. The writers all have various years of experience in youth ministry but share a common bond in serving Jesus and discovering what it means to abide deeply everyday and to connect God's Story with those around them. A number of the Daily Bide writers have also written portions of our 3Story® resources. You can check out our resources or connect with our writers at dailybide@yfc.org. If you have a question or a story you would like to share, please reference the Daily Bide date in your email.

What Is Christmas All About

TODAY’S STORY In Texas, a religious liberty battles rages at one school over quote from ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ In the classic holiday TV special “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” the main Peanuts character, saddened by the over-commercialization of December 25, decides to put on a play. But when his classmates push him to modernize the production and mock his sparse Christmas tree, Charlie Brown, exasperated, shouts out: “Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?” Linus, his thumb-sucking and blanket-toting best friend, speaks up. “Sure, Charlie...

Broken

TODAY’S STORY Tokens of broken hearts on display at LA museum (Photo above: One divorced woman couldn’t bring herself to throw away her wedding dress, so instead she stuffed it into a pickle jar.) The Museum of Broken Relationships in Los Angeles offers visitors a glimpse of heartbreak in all its forms. Relationships come and go... but at a museum in Los Angeles, tokens of heartbreak are here to stay. The Museum of Broken Relationships showcases over 100 items from jilted lovers around the worold. (SOUNDBITE) MUSEUM DIRECTOR, ALEXIS HYDE, SAYING: "When you're...

Complain or Grumble

TODAY’S STORY Retiring worker sends exit survey complaints to 2K employees PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A retiring Pennsylvania Turnpike worker decided brutal honesty was the way to go when he filled out an exit survey after a 35-year career. Instead of emailing it only to the human resources department, he hit the "reply all" button, sending his critique of the operation to more than 2,000 colleagues. Midlevel manager Michael Stuban tells The Philadelphia Daily News (goo.gl/d88sVR) that the agency asked for honesty and he delivered. He made it clear that he liked his job but...

New Heart

TODAY’S STORY Scientists Probe Mystery of Pluto’s Icy Heart Was Pluto’s frozen heart formed in an ancient impact basin and was it once closer to the north pole? And does the icy heart conceal a subsurface ocean? Scientists are offering several new scenarios to explain the formation of Pluto’s frozen heart-shaped feature, first spotted by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. Researchers have focused on the heart’s western lobe, informally named Sputnik Planitia, a deep basin containing three kinds of ices—frozen nitrogen, methane and carbon...

At least he got a plaque

TODAY'S STORY Michael James Delligatti, creator of the Big Mac, dies at 98 Source: William Grimes, TheRecord.com In April 1967, hamburger lovers in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh, met a newer, bigger burger. Introduced by a local McDonald's, it was called the Big Mac, and for 45 cents it delivered, as a 1970s jingle would have it, "two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun." Response was positive. A year later, the Big Mac was on the menu at McDonald's restaurants all over the United States. By 1969, it accounted...

Foundation

TODAY’S STORY Leaning San Francisco Tower Seen Sinking From Space Engineers in San Francisco have tunneled underground to try and understand the sinking of the 58-story Millennium Tower. Now comes an analysis from space. The European Space Agency has released detailed data from satellite imagery that shows the skyscraper in San Francisco's financial district is continuing to sink at a steady rate — and perhaps faster than previously known. The luxury high-rise that opened its doors in 2009 has been dubbed the Leaning Tower of San Francisco. It has sunk about 16 inches into landfill and is...

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