Commitment. It has ten letters, but it’s often treated like a four-letter word. I may be over-generalizing, but people seem reluctant to make commitments these days. Maybe it’s because life appears increasingly uncertain. News reports shout about terrorist attacks and...
I love the vast variety of words available to us in the English language. Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, heteronyms. I love their sounds and the nuances of meanings. Let’s camp there for a moment. Words have meaning. Yes, you may be rolling your eyes at the moment, but...
I recently learned they’ve stopped teaching cursive writing in most schools. Print? Yes. Script? Not anymore. No longer are children learning how to link the letters of each word in a continuous flow. But it’s not just the children. When was the last time you...
New year. New possibilities. Good thing, too, because many of us look back on various events in the old year and say, “Good riddance!” Still, despite the “Happy New Year” greetings, disappointments will follow us into the new year, too. So what do we do with them? For...
My mother used to say death comes in threes. I remember hearing her remark, during my childhood, about how one person died, then another died a few days later, and who would be the third? As I grew older, I chalked it up to superstition. But trouble does seem to come...
There’s a new “eye in the sky”—and it may be watching you. A new program is aimed at reducing speeding along a local, major highway. I-95 was widened earlier this year, and an increase in the number of speeders has contributed to frequent, deadly accidents. The...
A few weeks ago, I posted the following on my Facebook page: “Is God calling you to serve Him? What is your answer?” It’s a relatively straightforward question. Yes or no. And yet it’s often not so simple.God calls us to serve in our churches, neighborhoods, and Bible...
Is Jesus the Son of God? Some say that such a thing is a “New Testament” idea. Yet 700 years before the birth of Jesus, the Old Testament prophet Isaiah made it clear this baby was more than an ordinary child... For the past four weeks, I’ve been looking at the four...
Four weeks of Advent – four names of the Christ-child from the prophet Isaiah. “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace”...
You’d think I’d learn by now. I mean, how many times do I have to experience the same lesson before I get it? Five years ago, I heard what no woman wants to hear from her doctor. “The radiologist reviewed your mammogram and has recommended additional pictures.” As I...
Our busy culture has birthed an industry of time management experts offering tools and tips to be more effective. One...
We’re into the month of St. Patrick’s Day and four-leaf clovers. The month when green milk is fun (maybe not). And the...
Bible study can be encouraging…until we begin to put the people of the Bible on a pedestal. It’s so easy to think of...