Connections

When you pause to think about it, the years fly by so swiftly.  Sometimes it feels as though you are living in a dream, but then you realize that what you are experiencing is all too real.  And life is so short.  Our nation is only 245 years old, and I have been around more […]

How Great Thou Art!

Perhaps I posted these thoughts before.  I’m not certain about that.  My memory becomes a bit fuzzy at times.  Anyway, it does no harm to repeat them.  After all, truth is truth.  When I was a very little boy someone told that the sun was much bigger than the earth.  I looked up at that […]

A Passionate Protestant

The photograph above was taken in 1961, several years before the birth of our fifth son.  Ann was in the shopping mall one day with the four boys in tow, and a lady asked Ann if she was Catholic.  “No,” Ann replied, “just a passionate Protestant.”

A Lantern in the Daytime

Pilate said to Jesus, “What is truth?” He did not wait for an answer. On many occasions I have heard it said that young people of today no longer believe in absolute truth.  Truth, they say, is relative.  It also follows that, without absolute truth, there can be no absolute right or absolute wrong, During […]

Surprise

My wife and I spent July 4th, 1994, with our son Harold and his family in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Janes, our grandson, was seven years old.  Granddaughters Irene and Kira were five and one respectively. They were sweet children, and we enjoyed our visit with the family immensely.  During the visit I remember that little […]

Bind Their Wounds

I remember a brother in the faith who once remarked that Christians often shoot their wounded.  He was absolutely correct. This man served in the air force, and after being severely injured in an airplane crash he left the military and attended seminary.  He proved himself to be an excellent pastor and teacher, but his […]

Winter in Florida

This is a reprint of my post of July 23, 2018.  Sometime during the autumn of 1939, shortly after the outbreak of war in Europe, my family moved to Florida.  I believe that Dad was thinking of retiring there.  Anyway, he rented a house in Punta Gorda, on Florida’s gulf coast, and we settled in […]

Prison Reform

Last year the Trump administration made some important reforms in our Federal penal system. More reforms to the legal and correctional systems should be pursued.  Too many young men are being incarcerated, and once in prison they are often hardened by exposure to evil and twisted felons.  There they are also prey to purveyors of […]

Vibrations

I am not a physicist, theoretical or otherwise.  I have a hard time understanding Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, and Quantum physics tends to put me in an absolute funk.  But even the greatest minds are incapable of putting it all together in a comprehensible whole.  They have been unable to come up with a theory […]

The First Stone

The First Stone Over the past month or so I have been shocked and saddened to learn of Ravi Zacharias’ secret life.  Evidently he was guilty of serial sexual indiscretions, and these were later compounded by untruthful denials.  The facts slowly emerged after his death last year I was a great admirer of Ravi.  I […]