MY RULES FOR LIFEI try never to say anything behind a man’s back that would give me the least embarrassment to say to his face.
I try never to speak back to personal critics-friends do not need to hear the defense and enemies would not believe it.
Every day I try to greet every person I see […]
Do you ever get tired of doing the “little things” in life - things like cooking, mowing lawn, washing clothes, going to school … or work every day? Those things that have to be done over and over; things that seem to never end?
Which things are the most important - little things or big things? […]
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY
Jesus once said that the greatest example of love that will ever be known is that a man would die for his friends. That’s the ultimate expression of love. The principle is “the greater the love, the greater the willingness to sacrifice.”
The world will never know a greater love than Jesus has for […]
I hate this new packaging, don’t you? First of all, it’s embarrassing when a grown man can’t open a package of potato chips. So you finally give it a hard yank and play “pick up chips.” Now you have the next problem - you’ve ripped the bag too far to be able to reseal it! […]
As I was preparing to teach a class on the concept of a Christian leader not being “self-willed” (Titus 1:7), it occurred to me, having grown up as a preacher’s kid, and now being a preacher myself, that I could recall numerous occasions when churches had been fractured and split because of self-willed leaders.
In the […]
Paul writes to the Ephesian Christians, “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord… Servants, be obedient to your masters… as to the Lord.”
The phrase, “as unto the Lord” is a key to Christian perspective of life. It takes our attitude about our role in life to a new and higher plane. […]
A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired. During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives. Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a […]
Tuesday, October 3, 2006, John Mather and George Smoot were awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for what some scientists have heralded as “the greatest discovery of the century, if not of all time.”
They claim to have found the ultimate proof of the Big Bang theory of the universe’s origins by discovering faint variations in […]
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator and I immediately wanted to paint another one.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you feed a stray cat and I learned that it was good to be kind to animals.
When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw you make […]
It has become the ultimate word to denote an ignorant, narrow minded, religious bigot. Words are incredibly powerful. Words are the vehicles through which ideas, concepts and values are delivered. If you say it often enough, from a broad enough platform, with enough “respectable” voices…. it will become acceptable. Soon, it will become respectable.For a […]