This week I met a ten-year old girl who expressed her goal in life in no uncertain terms: "I want to be a star."I was pretty sure she didn't mean that she wanted to become a celestial body shining through the night. No, she wanted people to notice her.As these ideas...
Luke chapter 10, verses 25-37 brings us the parable of the Good Samaritan. Here we have a story about a well-to-do legal eagle anxious to make an impression and display his knowledge of the scriptures. But Jesus threw back the challenge and asked him who was the...
Someone Who Cares “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” John 13:34,35What a great way to spend some time....
HTML clipboard HARRY WHITEHEAD is one of those people you never forget, not because he is famous or powerful, but because he is kind and patient. Harry was my drafting teacher during my junior and senior years of high school. A thin black man with a dark beard and a...
On the front page of the L.A. Times there's a photo of San Diego Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham tearfully confessing is guilt to bribery and tax evasion.On an inside page of a local Southern California newspaper, the Daily Breeze, we're told that Paul Bryant, an...
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." (Gen 1:27 NIV)When I went to work that Friday morning, I had no idea that later in the day I would fulfill one of my oldest son's wildest dreams. I was busily...
The end of summer always brings about an invasion of flying, stinging, yellowish bugs to our deck - WASPS! Whenever we go outside to enjoy nature, we have to dodge these little kamikazes, resuscitated from the past. It makes even simply stepping out on the deck an act...