12/29/11 IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!

On the old television game show, Family Feud, one question asked was, "What are the most popular New Year's resolutions that people make at the start of a new year?"

One of the top resolutions was to make more money.  Another was to save more money.  A third was to take more tim...

08/30/11 Marbles

Do you have God in your life? Or do you have your life in God? In the first instance, God is a part of your life like a marble added to a jar. It's only a part of you, a part of the whole, a part that you get out and use occasionally like on Sundays or when you want something. In the second instance...

08/24/11 HOW QUICKLY THE TIME FLIES!

As I write this, our van is loaded up and we will be leaving in a couple of hours to take our youngest daughter to a new journey in life called college. Our other daughter will leave the next day and our house will be empty. I wonder: "Where did the time go? It seems to have flown by so quickly...

07/29/11 WATCH OUT FOR THE BRICK!

A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. Who could blame him, with his Jag boasting a 240-horsepower engine? He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars, however, and slowed down when he thought he saw someth...

06/29/11 MOMENTS OF GRACE

On January 12 the Washington Post conducted an experiment: What would happen if a world-class performed elegant classical music on a priceless instrument in the Metro station of the major American city?

The city was Washington DC. The musician was Joshua Bell, who can earn upwards of $50,000...

05/28/11 SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE!

I am sometimes amazed by the quick passage of time and the changes of life. Just this year in our home alone, we have experienced several key changes. Our son has moved to Cincinnati to start his career; one of our parents has died; another parent has moved from their home in Evansville to live at C...

10/31/09 HOW WILL YOU EXPRESS YOUR THANKS?

John Brooks Fuqua was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia and raised on a small tobacco farm. His family struggled in the lean times following World War I and barely survived. J. B. Had a dream of a career in radio, but in order for a person to make it in that world, he needed an education and mo...

08/24/09 THE GIFT OF PRAYER

What is prayer? What do you think it means to pray? If someone stopped you on the street and asked you to define prayer, what would you say? I used to think that prayer meant bringing my "shopping lists" to God and told God what I wanted and how I wanted it and when I wanted it. I thought prayer was...

07/26/09 WHO ARE YOU LIFTING UP IN PRAYER?

Christian musician, Steven Curtis Chapman, has written a song entitled "Carry You to Jesus". It is a song about lifting up another person in prayer. The person is going through a difficult time in which there are no words to offer or an understanding heart is just not enough in this case. So the son...

06/27/09 THANKFUL! THANKFUL! THANKFUL!

As we prepare to celebrate the birthday of our nation, I thought you might enjoy these thoughts from an unknown author:

Only in America can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

Only in America do people order double cheeseburgers, a large fry, and a DIET coke.

Only in America do ba...