My parents took our family cherry-picking one summer. It was at a beautiful farm with hundreds of cherry trees. I was ecstatic because cherries are one of my favorite fruits. I remember taking the bag the I was given and stuffing it with as many cherries as possible. It was bursting at the seams. My…
Read MoreIt is hard to find anyone who is a model of integrity today. You look to celebrities, athletes, and politicians and all of them tell people what they want to hear, or they are so disrespectful of those they disagree with that it is repulsive. Paul tells Titus to be a model of integrity in…
Read MoreIt seems like everyone is a victim today. Someone has offended them or pain has been caused because of their circumstances. Now there may be truth to these claims but what they do is diminish those who are actual victims, those who have been abused and assaulted. The church should be fighting for the real…
Read MoreMany religions offer promises they can’t deliver on. They encourage you to meditate so that you can find inner peace. They have you eat strict diets that are supposed to cleanse and bring healing. All of these do nothing to take away the real source of the guilt and pain, our sin. Only Jesus came…
Read MoreMy oldest daughter is getting real close to the dating age. Figuring out how to handle this does give me a bit of stress. I’m not going to be cleaning my gun if a boy comes over to take her out, but I do want to know if he has pure intentions. I have talked…
Read MoreAll of us can remember back when we were in school, to a particular student who was always the teacher’s pet. The student was always doing special things for the teacher and in return, got preferential treatment. No one else in the class could stand the person. No one likes when people play favorites. With…
Read MoreI feel so much better when I go for my morning walk. It gets my heart going, and I have so much more energy for the rest of the day — the challenge for me it to get up and get going. I can come up with a ton of excuses not to do it….
Read MoreWhen you go to a doctor for an injury that requires stitches or begins to scab the last thing that they tell you as you walk out the door is to make sure you don’t scratch the itch. If you do, you will create a lasting scar and may prevent the wound from healing. There…
Read MoreAll of us had a job that when we started, we got little to no training. We were expected to jump in even though we had no idea what we were doing. For most of us that is unsettling because we want to do a good job and not mess up. We are equipped for…
Read MoreMy wife and I go round and round about how much light we have on in the house. She likes very little light and prefers the soft glow of a table lamp. I am the exact opposite — the more light, the better. We’ve been married for 22 years, and it’s easy for you to…
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