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IN MY LIFETIME I have met very few people who are so welcoming, so gracious, and so selfless in the way they treat me, that they feel like family to me. I’d like you to meet one such family. They are German. I just got back from vacationing with …
I KNOW THE SQUEAK of a three-inch baby bunny hanging from the mouth of a Labrador retriever. It’s faint. Barely audible. High-pitched. “eeek.” Buddy the Dog – back from two weeks of boarding while our family took a May vacation – quickly sniffed out …
I’M TAKING A HOLIDAY. I’ll tell you why. If the writer of Ecclesiastes had lived in Nashville, he might have put it this way: “Work your fingers to the bone. Whadda ya get? Boney fingers. Boney fingers.” That was actually the late Hoyt Axton’s song. …
I’M GUESSING we’re about to witness a new wave of worriers. It’s graduation time. High school and college kids are going to be looking for work – during the deepest recession since the Great Depression. Which would make this the Great Recession. Some …
THE BIBLE has a few choice words for critics. Here’s an excerpt from The Complete Guide to the Bible, Student Edition. It’s from the section called “Where to Find it in the Bible.” CRITICISM As far as the Bible is concerned, criticizing others is …
I’M GETTING WEARY of all the bleak around me. I heard an interview a few days ago with Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock in the new movie Star Trek Into Darkness. The gent interviewing him made the observation that this was a dark movie. Quinto …
HERE’S THE MORAL of the story, first: Don’t be messing with your iPhone during prayer. My Bible study group had just enjoyed a wonderful Mother’s Day Bible study this past Sunday. Two gentlemen in the class tag-teamed to lead our session. They did a …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Dennis Knight of Elk City, Oklahoma, and he wins a free book for his trouble. Here’s his question: What is success from a biblical standpoint? It just so happens that I have a section on what the Bible …
A WOMAN gets the last word in the manly man’s Book of Proverbs – a book written by men, for men. In the closing chapter, a mysterious king named Lemuel – mentioned nowhere else in the Bible – passes along the wise sayings of his mother. Here’s what …
As Mother’s Day approaches, I can’t help but feel for those ladies who hate the day because it throws a spotlight on their emptiness. Here’s a painful chapter from my life, excerpted from my book How to Live in the Moment. I LEANED …
“God led them in a roundabout way through the wilderness toward the Red Sea.” Exodus 13:18 IT’S A SEA WITH AN ASTERISK in the Bible. When we read “Red Sea” the asterisk usually says it’s yam suf in Hebrew, “sea of reeds.” That leaves many Bible …
YOU COULD CUT THE TENSION with a chainsaw during our Bible study this past Sunday. It so troubled one member of the group that he had a hard time focusing on the sermon afterward. Have you ever been in a Bible study group when things suddenly got …
