The Apostle Paul was a very colorful man in Christian ministry. He made tents for a living but wrote Scripture & raised the dead in his spare time. He figuratively stormed the gates of hell and literally paid a visit to heaven (before his life was even over!). He planted churches, plotted missions, and pioneered … Read more
“Pressure makes diamonds…dragons make heroes”. Fact & fiction both agree that adversity has the potential to bring out the best in those who endure it. Folks who want to be great are a dime-a-dozen, but those who will do what it takes to get there are one-in-a-million. If you want to be remembered in the … Read more
I’ve never been as interested in working for McDonalds as I have been recently. Not because of a long-suppressed desire to wear a polo shirt & headset, and not because I want out of the job I’ve already got, but because operating the griddle at Mickey D’s is more lucrative than ever. And I’m qualified. … Read more
Would you feel safer in a city where the penitentiaries are overflowing with crooks & criminals of every sort, or in a city where the prisons are half-empty because the judge liberally pardons them? A FRIGHTFUL SCENARIO Imagine coming home to find your entire family slain in cold blood (a quick Google search revealed that … Read more
A Sad Story… Barbara was stunned. The bloated body they pulled out of the river had been violently stabbed to death. There was no mistaking that this was her husband (she knew it by the clothes he wore). Only a short time ago, having devoted themselves to God’s work, she and Roger had left America … Read more
The devil is a busy one. He doesn’t have a lot of time to spend on any particular individual. If a quick conversation with a naïve woman (Gen. 3:1-5) or an evening spent inside of a betrayer (Luke 22:3) isn’t enough to get the job done, he’ll move along to more fruitful fields. He didn’t … Read more
Good grief, we’re doing it all over again. It’s the same thing we did only 12 months ago (and 12 months before that, and again 12 months before that), so I guess it shouldn’t really surprise me. But lately, it just feels less appropriate than usual. If memory serves me, it was indeed about this … Read more
American’s have been in “pursuit of happiness” ever since 1776. Christians have been tracking it even longer. From the Garden of Eden to the Shores of America (and every place in between), mankind has always been dominated by a concern to be happy. Everybody Wants To Be Happy… Blaise Pascal (1600’s; French Mathematician) recognized this … Read more
(The following account is entirely fictitious. All names, statistics, & quotations are purely fabricated). Chapter One: The ROOKIE Chet Baxter learned to play baseball before he could hold a Popsicle, which came as a surprise to no one. His granddad helped build the St. Louis Cardinal’s dynasty in the 1920’s. His father, and two of … Read more
Months ago I began having a new kind of nightmare. The theme of these dreams is always the same, even though the details vary. Recently it was a horrifying car ride with a former work supervisor. Another time I recall trying to fight my way out of an unwanted hug. Maybe it’s little more than … Read more