A young man has a dream of playing in the NFL and works hard to achieve his goal for many years. Just when he seems to be on the cusp of fulfilling his dreams, he suffers a rare injury during a hit that he receives in what would turn out to be his last college football game. At the...
What are you tempted by? Are you tempted by the taste of chocolate to eat too much? (That’s me!) Are you tempted to buy things you don’t need, by advertisements promoting the next great thing? Are you tempted to ruin a friendship for a momentary pleasure?
This week’s word is tempt,...
What makes a teacher great? This is something I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about in my life because I’ve had so many great teachers, and a few that weren’t so great. I’ve studied at two colleges and one seminary, as well as classroom training sessions for several different jobs....
I come from a family of teachers. My grandma taught school (primarily first grade) for 45 years. My mom has taught and helped with preschool and kindergarten for 24 years, and she taught kindergarten Sunday School for 25 years. I enjoyed the privilege of teaching Biblical Greek and...
Have you ever thought about why we can’t be good at EVERYTHING? I understand that it sounds like an arrogant question, almost like we have the right to be talented. Maybe it’s just me who enjoys contemplating why things are the way they are in our lives. Obviously, some people are...
What are you good at? Perhaps you’re good at singing, or playing sports, or solving math problems, or listening to people, or any number of other things. I’m good at math and problem solving and working with languages, and back in high school I was a pretty good dancer. Have you ever...
I wonder how many of you out there have had experiences in your life that you realized later on were important because they taught you valuable lessons that were critical in those later circumstances. I know I’ve had those experiences with what I would say were “smaller” steps of faith...
How would you like to live a portable lifestyle? You wouldn’t have the continuity of going home to the same place every day, and you would probably spend much of your time moving around. I lived in the same house from the time I was born until I went to college, so until that point...
“Such an attitude runs the risk of denying the existence of evil”.
I found this quote in an article on Wikipedia that talked about the criticism that a certain religious group of people faced because of their decision to respond to evil with love and compassion. I chose to begin...
