I was staying with my sister-in-law, Madelyn, while our husbands, who are brothers, were visiting with their other two brothers. "I will be back in a couple of hours," she said as she put on her gloves and gathered up her large plastic bags.Madelyn and Robin live...
"For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness,...
"Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives" - 2 Peter 3:11In August 1961, Paul Toaspern was a theologian living in West Berlin. Suddenly, the Soviets decided to erect the concrete Berlin...
May I share a mess I’m glad I am out of? My bachelor’s apartment. Of all the names I've been called, no one has ever accused me of being a neat freak. Some people have a high threshold of pain; I have a high threshold of sloppiness. Not that my mom didn't try. And not...
When my car broke down in the worst part of Lima, Peru one evening, it was loaded with expensive computer equipment. When two assailants attacked, someone dared to intervene.Some years ago, while working at the Inca Union, church headquarters in Lima, Peru, I was...
Adam, like many other 8-year-olds, had a lot to learn when it came to cleaning his room. And his mother, Pam, was getting rather impatient at what she thought seemed like a slow learning process. This time, she had had enough."Adam," Pam yelled. "This room is a...
It was the smell that bothered Wayne the most. The clutter and the oily stains on the carpets he could stand, but the fetid aroma that swirled through the house was at times unbearable. Air fresheners would allay the stench for a short time, but the presence of the...