Every good salesman knows if he takes a client golfing he, the salesman, must be sure to miss those crucial putts and not win. A pool table came with our house and occasionally we have guests who want to try it out. I make sure...
The Book of Revelation speaks of a remnant people saved by Jesus out of a great last day conflict. The word “remnant” is defined as scraps, fragments, leftovers. When I was younger I never left anything on my plate. My mother taught me to eat...
He was a mountain of a man. He had to be over 400 pounds and filled the door to my hospital room. He came to draw blood and was gentle and kind. When he spoke he was obviously not from New England. He was from...
I sat down this afternoon to watch a program on Netflix. It was a British production and I was having such a difficult time understanding what they were saying I finally turned on the subtitles. That helped a lot. I felt kind of stupid needing...
If your church has a school or is affiliated with another church that has a school please do not weary hearing offering appeals for Christian Education. Over and over we hear calls for funds for evangelism and never bat an eye. After all isn’t that...
We have a lovely oak tree that has been living beside a straggly looking pine. The pine was once very nice and almost 50 feet tall. But it was damaged in our last hurricane and never recovered so today we had it removed. My wife...
My wife asked me to get the cinnamon out of the pantry. Being the good guy that I am I opened the door and stared and stared. For all that I wanted to help I could not see any cinnamon. Finally I said, “There isn’t...
She sat across from me in a waiting room and I could not but stare at her tattoo. She appeared to be about 55. She was probably younger but her tattoo hinted at a hard life which puts years on people. I see teenage girls...
Recently I watched one of my friends put on his laced shoes merely by forcing his foot past the laces and into the shoe. It was fast and efficient. True, he did have to raise his heel up and down a few times to get...
I remember it as if it were yesterday. My father, a school teacher, who always went to school in suit, white shirt, tie, and a white handkerchief in the left top pocket of his suit coat, came home and announced it was time for me...