Believers who are poor have something to boast about, for God has honored them. And those who are rich should boast that God has humbled them. They will fade away like a little flower in the field. The hot sun rises and the grass withers; the little...
Can you imagine the first humans sitting around the fire telling stories about the day they had exploring their world? They might see a bird they had never seen before. Or they played with a deer in the forest. They shared their experiences, their...
I was making some bacon in the microwave yesterday. I really don’t like doing it that way. The absolute best way to make bacon is in the oven. Put the bacon on a cooling rack stacked on a sheet pan, set the oven for 425 degrees and cook it...
Recently I went to Lowes looking for a screen/storm door for the front of the house. My parents were getting me one for my birthday. The front of our house is almond, so we were looking for one that color and found a couple we liked that were...
Perspective. Perspective determines meaning. It defines reality. Friedrich Nietzsche said “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” He was right. It was the English nonconformist...
I love classic cars. My favorite is a 1955 Chevy. With a candy-apple red paint scheme and nice chrome, there is not a more beautiful car on the road. If I were a wealthy man, I would buy an old ’55 and restore it. I would also buy a 1940 Ford...
Dirk Nowitzki had the Dallas Mavericks up 2-0 over the Miami heat in 2005. They went on to lose four straight games and the NBA finals. The knock on Dirk was that he was soft. Over the next few years, the Mavericks never got to the finals again and...
Swallowed up. When I think of that, I have several images come to mind. One is the moment in the original Star Wars movie where Han Solo is trying to evade Federation troops and parks the Millennium Falcon in a crater thinking it is a cave but is...
In the previous two posts in this series, I described the declining educational system and its impact on younger adults. Today I want to provide suggestions to help us communicate better in light of this decline. 1. Communicate in short stories. I...
I was talking recently with a young college student finishing his first year at a community college. He was doing a paper and I asked how the paper was going. He told me he was about half way through, it was due in a couple of days and he had run...