Gimme Three Steps…
It's true, men don't like following direction. This came home to me the other day as I was assembling a small table for our living room. There weren't that many pieces and the assembly "seemed" straight forward so I dove right in. That is until I had to connect...
Germ Warfare
You see it in every restaurant bathroom you go to: "Employees must wash their hands before returning to work." I've even seen detailed instructions in bathrooms as to how to wash one's hands properly! In 1546 Italian physician and scholar Girolamo Fracastoro first suggested that unseen "germs" were the cause...
Hellenists VS. Hebrews!
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Let's Get Ready to Rumble!" With that announcement, the "Thrilla in Manila" was underway, probably one of the greatest professional boxing matches ever. It seems we humans have an ingrained "love" of fighting,
Today, Do You?
Today, Jesus asks a man "Do You believe that I can do this?" The man answers "Yes" and the Lord tells him, what He tells us today, "According to your faith be it done to you." Today, life throws some pretty tough times for us, and each time we are...
Our Saturday Guest Blog – Understanding the Creed
Our Saturday Guest Blog comes to us from Orthodox Christian Network. It is a wonderful series of teachings on the Creed of the Orthodox Faith. While this is certainly a project that will take time, this is a wonderful resource for your own education and edification concerning the central...
“Hey, Did You Hear That?”
A few weeks ago we were all at home, just sitting in the living room when there was a noise outside the back door. My wife turned to me and asked "did you hear that?" I had and went to investigate. It turned out to be nothing more than...
Hey, Wash Your Hearts!
My dear bride has a hard and fast rule for my two girls: "Wash your hands!" You see, my wife is a trained elementary school educator and part of that training has to do with hygiene. Teaching children to wash their hands before they eat, after they play, and...
It’s Hard Work Being Content!
G. K. Chesterton once said "True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare." So true. Real contentment is something that doesn't come "naturally" in a world...
Support Your Local Sheriff
Recently, the American actor James Garner passed away. He was known for several roles but one of my favorites was in the 1969 comedy "Support Your Local Sheriff." In this movie Garner plays a character that becomes sheriff in an old West town just for the money, and, well,...
That Green Eyed Monster
The late Fulton Sheen once said "Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius." And there is simply no other vice that destroys both parties as jealousy. It cankers the soul of the one who experiences it and it reduces the object of jealousy to a forever unreachable "thing." No...