Pro-Choice?
After I spoke at a public high school on the pro-life position, the pro-choice instructor took me to the faculty lounge for lunch. He pointed to a table where four teachers were smoking and...
Does the Bible Offer Hope for Depression?
Note: This article considers the spiritual side of a serious topic. Please note that depression sometimes necessitates medical intervention.
Depression is perhaps the most common emotional problem that we face today. Experts suggest as many...
Can’t Be Stopped
Can’t Be Stopped
A funny story came out of the old Brooklyn Dodgers football team in the early years of professional football.
George Cafego played halfback for the Dodgers. One day they were playing the New...
Becoming “One”
In describing the marital relationship, Jesus taught that the husband and wife become one, yes, to the point that “they are no longer two but one flesh” (Matthew 19:5–6). Even so, in describing the...
A Caring Cowboy
A family, all nine of them, loaded all their earthly possessions into a covered wagon pulled by a four-horse hitch and set out to join fourteen other families leaving Arkansas headed for Texas and...
The Hottest Spice
Currently, the hottest pepper is officially the Carolina Reaper, cultivated by “Smokin” Ed Currie in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The official 2017 Guinness World Record heat level was 1,641,183 Scoville Heat Units (SHU).
Is your...
The Problem Everybody Has but Nobody Talks About
Hans Christian Anderson’s short story “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is about two weavers who promised an emperor new clothes that would be invisible to anyone unfit for his position. They made no clothes at...
Ten Commandments of Human Relations
1. Thou Shalt Love People, Not Just Use Them (Matthew 22:39). The greatest thing in the world is a person. The greatest thing about a person is his motives, and the greatest motive is...
Are You Covered?
In recent months, several natural and unnatural calamities have struck our country and community. Terrorists destroy buildings and lives; planes fall from the sky; evil people have given “hate mail” a new meaning. Periodically,...
Blessings in Disguise
There was a single survivor of a shipwreck who was thrown upon an uninhabited island. After a while he managed to build a crude hut in which he placed the things he had salvaged...