Sometimes I wish Emily Post was still alive. I have unanswered questions regarding being polite. I was at the supermarket and while going down aisle one I met a man coming toward me. We greeted. A few moments later, because we were going through the...
If you are going to lie you better know who you are lying to. They might very easily catch you in your perfidy. This weekend we stopped at a large nursery that was having a fall celebration with pumpkins, horses, cider doughnuts and other such...
The greatest debate in your life is not a nationalized television event. It is a live universal event where you are the focal point. Check out Zechariah 3. “Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan...
Yesterday afternoon I along with some friends were enjoying a vista that included a far away transmitter tower. Wondering just where it was we set out to find it. When we did find it we were amazed at how close it had been to our...
This evening when I entered my classroom the teacher from the former class was still present. I noticed on the white board the following message, “No cell phones - No ear buds.” I turned to the prof and said, “Let me guess. Your class was...
Recently I listened to a discourse that portrayed science as the enemy of faith. It was as if scientists were out to destroy any connection between one’s walk with God and the world that He created. How very strange this seems. It seems to me...
I was browsing in the index section of the hymnal I grew up with and noticed forty-seven of the hymns were written by what appears to be a very prolific writer because I have seen his - or was he a she - name on...
The rich young ruler knelt before Jesus and asked, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied, “No one is good except God alone.” The issue of defining who or what is good has been contemplated...
Our supermarket has ten checkout lanes. Yesterday there was only one open with eight people waiting in line. To add insult to injury there were four employees chatting over at the service counter. I don’t usually consider myself an activist, but this exceeded my sense...
The immediate flooring inside our front door is dark stone. The front door faces west. In the afternoons a small dot of light slowly moves across the stone floor. Obviously there is a hole in the door. But it is so tiny it is not...