I thought it must be boring for my dog to eat the same thing every day so this afternoon I bought her a new kind of dog food. It is 50 pounds of Pedigree for adult dogs with roasted chicken, rice and vegetables flavorings. It...
I am fascinated by the bread aisle in supermarkets. Someday I’m going to count how many different varieties are available. There is Wonder Bread that keeps our bodies healthy in twelve ways. There is Wonder Bread lo-cal that obviously doesn’t keep us healthy in any...
On occasion I hear people talking about how very sinful and rotten the world is becoming. Since I took a ton of history classes for my undergrad degree I’m afraid I have to disagree. The world has always been a rotten place. People didn’t live...
There is a poignant passage at the beginning of Romans 9. Paul was thinking of his friends, his family and all his people. The prospect of them being lost and not sharing in the joy of salvation and the freedom from the burden of the...
It’s a dark day for my vegetarian friends and colleagues. You have not been as meatless as you perhaps thought. I clearly remember the day I was riding my motorcycle and had some kind of bug go straight through my mouth into my esophagus and...
While sitting in a hospital waiting room I watched an elderly couple come in for an appointment. He was in a wheel chair and was looking very frail. When a nurse came and wheeled him down a long corridor and he was out of sight,...
I watched a little boy about 8 years old walk over to his little sister about 6 years old and push her down and then walk away. What happened next was fascinating. His dad grabbed him and said, “Why did you do that?” And of...
When we think of the names of Bible writers we rarely mention King Lemuel. But he was responsible for one of the more famous chapters in Scripture. Proverbs 31 describes the perfect wife. She does everything and she does it well. I have one of...
I just finished reading an article in the New York magazine about an actress regarded as being critic proof. I wondered if that meant she was so good no one would dare criticize her or if it meant she was able to not pay attention...
This has been a weekend of transitioning my email from Verizon to Gmail. It seems that I have been sending the devotionals to too many people. Gmail is more generous and allows a bigger email list. One of the issues is setting defaults to make...