Have you ever been a dangling participle? A participle is a modifier much like an adjective. Often it denotes some form of action that describes the subject of a sentence. An example is “The flying hawk never flapped its wings.” Flying is the participle. If...
“No” is a favorite word of two-year-olds. Sometimes parents are alarmed at what appears to be rebellion and the beginning of the road to perdition. However, child developmentalists assure us it is a healthy sign of the emergence and growth of individuality. The child is...
I absolutely love chocolate chip cookies. I love them small. I love them large. I love them with tiny chips. I love them with chunks. I love them made by Keebler’s elves. I love them made by my wife. I love them baked. I love...
When I was seventeen years old our high school temperance society went, as part of larger trip, to a night court in Baltimore. The atmosphere was seedy, dark and an amazing snapshot of city government at work. The judge was wearing a robe and did...
When we are very small we have very limited options. We have to eat what others give us and go wherever the family car takes us. As we mature the menu expands. We can decide whether or not to continue to eat the family fare...
One of the many pregnant scenes from Schindler’s List occurs when the camp commandant is drinking with Oskar Schindler and Schindler says to the commandant, “Power is when we have every justification to kill and we don’t.” Paul wrote to the Romans, “For the wages of sin is death.”...
God is creative. He longs to talk to us. The writer of Hebrews begins, “In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways.” He still does. It doesn’t have to be a long time ago to other people. ...
We had a Luke 15 kind of day. In Luke 15 Jesus tells three lost and found stories and thus it was we had three lost and founds in just a few hours. When we took our dog for a walk in the forest we...
We have a fox who has decided he or she likes our yard. Just ten feet from our patio he has dug a den. Almost every night we get pictures of him moving about. We have a trail camera that is activated...
I think I should create a Hall of Fame and fill it with interesting souls I’ve met on the road to paradise. The first person I nominate is an old guy I met at the beginning of my ministry. He was in his eighties when...