One of the most enduring and captivating posters to pass before my eyes during my more than a decade of working in Christian retail was composed of an artist’s rendering of Jesus saying the words “I AM” with several and various Scriptural names and descriptors […]
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I hope you have your voter registration card handy and have mapped out the location of your polling place. Maybe you’re thinking, “Now wait just a minute, it can’t be that time again, it seems like only yesterday that we voted last!” Exactly, the […]
If someone were to take a poll of the least favorite books of the Bible, Job would probably land toward the top of the list, right alongside other popular contenders such as Leviticus and Ecclesiastes. However, the 42 chapters of this Old Testament work have great and significant teaching which […]
Perhaps it’s because I have a little bit more time in the Summer to watch too much of the news, but it seems to me that at an ever increasing rate we see things we never thought we’d see and find ourselves asking “what in the world?!” However, while events […]
A couple of weeks ago the results of a recent poll concerning Christianity made the headlines of several newscasts. The survey showed that in less than a decade the percentage of professing believers in America dropped from 78% of the […]
A few years ago the family and I went to the Pizza Hut at the Morse Shores Shopping Center to enjoy their lunch buffet. (Yes, Palm Beach Boulevard used to have a Pizza Hut, just like it used to have a Pizza Inn, a Perkins, a Wendy’s, and a Sonny’s!). […]
Oft times many of the seats in the committee room were empty, but not this day. Between the congressmen and reporters it was truly standing room only. The two sides of the political aisle were firmly ensconced in their respective trenches as the star cabinet member (with far reaching political […]
It occurred three decades ago, still it’s etched very vividly in my memory. There had been some kind of incident at recess that involved water balloons. I hadn’t committed any malfeasance but because I was in the proximity of the heinous act I was sent along with others to sit […]
Perhaps there is no sadder story to tell than that of an unrequited love, a love that only goes one way. How many movies have been made, how many books have been written and, more importantly, how many hearts of real people have been broken from the reality that they […]
Everyone reading this newsletter probably got something “new” in recent days. Maybe it was the new book by your favorite author or the new CD by your favorite artist (aka the Gaither Vocal Band for those of us led by the Spirit!). Perhaps it was a new recliner for relaxing, […]