For those of you who love baseball and have good thoughts of the late Yogi Berra, I hope you’ll enjoy these nuggets from him: “All right! Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height!" “The secret to managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the...
What would you expect from such simple creatures? Your last name stays put, the garage is all yours, wedding plans take care of themselves, chocolate is just another snack, and you can never get pregnant. Furthermore, car mechanics tell you the truth, you never have to drive to...
I do not know of one person who doesn’t love a mountaintop experience, and this would also hold true for those who experienced them in both the Old and New Testaments. These are times when we all enjoy a special spiritual intimacy with the Lord and are able to see things more clearly...
Since the dawn of our nation’s founding, every generation has endured a time of testing. From the first battle at Lexington, to the burning of the White House in 1812, to Teddy Roosevelt’s charge up San Juan Hill, to the carnage and human cost of the Civil War, to the death and...
As I think back to my mother when I was a child, and as I have watched our three children and ten grandchildren relate to my wife, I have observed all of the following in action: a barber and beautician, fashion consultant, chairperson, mechanic, teacher, veterinarian, equipper, interpreter...
All three of our children played baseball in organized leagues growing up. At first, it was a lot of fun, and one of our kids even played on a team that was undefeated. But then, my wife and I finally decided to give up on baseball altogether, and for the following...
In our culture, as you probably well know, the significance of important, highly valued, religious days and times has long been forgotten. For the most part, we live our lives on the surface of frenetic activity. We surf and skim over a body of information, but rarely dive into the...
A Christian psychologist recently conducted an analysis on the effects of alcoholism within the family. In his study, he traced the lives of two boys who were reared in an alcoholic home, but, at an early age, they had been separated by thousands of miles and were totally unaware of the...
Do you need a little laugh about something that is also true? Read on! George Phillips, an elderly man from Walled Lake, Michigan, was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he’d left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. ...
In the forests of Northern Europe lives the ermine, a small animal best known for its snow-white fur in the winter. Instinctively, this weasel-like animal protects its glossy fur with great care lest it becomes soiled, and hunters often capitalize on this trait. Instead of setting a...