It doesn't make any sense. Why would he do that? What was going through his mind when he made that choice? Doesn't this person know he's disrupted my drive? Ah, yes, the constant temptation of the self-centric universe offers me tons of opportunities to learn about myself! Ouch! But, seriously,...
It never fails. I'm sitting with a young couple in pre-marital counseling and we get to the part of the service where the husband is commanded to love his wife as Christ loves the Church and the wife is to "obey" her husband. They look at each other. They...
My best friend in the world died of a brain tumor many years ago. Anyone who has either struggled with cancer or knew someone who did, knows the radical nature of cancer treatment. The chemotherapy is literally poison used to kill the cancer. But it's still poison. Many have...
Fear is an emotion that has both a psychological and physical response. When I am afraid, my knees knock; my hands sweat; my mind races; and my heart beats faster, all in response to fear! Funny how my body reacts the same way to being in love! I'm just...
Mystery stories are fun, but I'm not a fan of the genre. I guess I prefer my suspense in movies rather than reading it. But, we moderns love mysteries! We salivate over discovering who did what to whom and when. And yet, when we read about mysteries in the Bible,...
The old saying is "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree." And then there is "He's a chip off the old block." When I was a young man I feared these old sayings, terrified that they were right. You see, I didn't want to be like my dad....
"But it's not fair!" You could hear the pain and anger in her voice. You could see her face was contorted and shaped in a way that communicated just how upset she was. Hey, get use to this if you have children! My daughter was indignant that her sister...
My wife constantly wonders why the girls listen to me and not her. The truth is there is science behind why. The male voice has a lower register and strikes the ears of children differently than a woman's voice. The woman's voice is usually closer to the pitch of...
Growing up in the South, I was use to the normal rhythm of the year at our church of a "spring revival" and a "revival" in the fall. What is a "revival" you ask? Well, it's where a congregation gets a special speaker to come in and make us...
"Not good. Not good at all!" We were working on a project and the manager was extremely difficult to please. He didn't like the artwork. He didn't like the text. He didn't like anything. And, when my team asked him, "What do you like?" He said something that let...
