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HOW MUCH MONEY should a human spend on a sick critter? Buddy the Dog, on a scale of 1 to 10, is more than $500 sick at the moment. He has been to the vet 3 times in the last half-week. First it was a double ear infection. Now he has what appears to …
I TOOK MOST OF THE DAY OFF yesterday. It was for a church thing. Here’s the problem. On April 27 our church had what we call a Mega Mission day. We rallied folks from our church to do spring chores for people in our city who needed help. We worked …
MY TWO KIDS ARE GONE. My son is married and living a few miles west with his two ladies. It’s legal. One lady barks. My daughter is about to be married. We’ll dance the wedding waltz in October. She lives a few miles north. This house used to be …
IT’S THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK. It comes from Andrew Campbell, who gets a free book for his trouble. Here’s his question: I know you answered a question for a guy a while back about guns and personal defense [Christians, guns & self-defense]. Why …
ON VACATION I didn’t give much thought to where we might go in Germany and Switzerland. Both of those countries are beautiful, so I figured it would be hard to go wrong wherever we went. So when our group was putting together an itinerary, I was …
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 …
