"Did I keep my heart pure for nothing? Did I keep myself innocent for no reason?" (Psalm 73:13 NLT)I was a goody two-shoes, but for what?John Newbery published the story, “Goody Two-Shoes,” in London in 1765 and popularized the phrase. The story tells about an orphan...
I TRIED IT for a week and that's all I could endure.All my teenage male peers were sloppy. I wasn't, but I wanted to fit in, so I decided to try their lifestyle. It wasn't easy. Piling dirty clothes on the floor, leaving food scraps on my bed, and allowing loose...
Jesus Freak. A term of the late 1960s and early 1970s referring to a countercultural movement and used pejoratively for those affiliated with the Jesus movement.Freak, along with any adjectives modifying it, was actually a neutral term used to describe the specific...
He was only a young man when bands of foreign invaders pummeled through the walls of his city, destroyed his homeland, and carted him and thousands of others to a foreign land. Suddenly, he was introduced to food he'd never tasted. None of the foods he was accustomed...
The following is reported to be a true story that says a lot about Japanese products and their quality standards.It seems that IBM decided to have some parts manufactured in Japan as a trial project. In the specifications, they specified that they would only accept...
"The righteous keep moving forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger." Job 17:9 NLTAs a young boy, clean hands were important to me-a trait that has obviously been passed down to my grandson. As he attempts to master eating with a fork and...
Many, many years ago, so long in fact that it seems like eons, I was asked, along with several other church members, to go up to the altar to pray for those who went forward for prayer. I agreed, but unfortunately, my heart was not in it. I kept on thinking, "Who am I...