I AM A TIRED WOMAN is the title of the following anonymous article [marked by the *’s] I ran across a few years ago. (Excuse me if it offends you by saying this, but the author had no issue with saying she was a woman, and no difficulty verbalizing women are in some ways different from […]
There’s an old Alabama football joke that went around in the 90’s: Q: What do a maggot and an Alabama football fan have in common? A: Both can live on a dead Bear for 20 years. I first heard that little Diddy in the “days of the Mikes” – if you’re a Tide fan you […]
Someone observed that marriage is like horseradish — men, and women, sometimes praise it with tears in their eyes. Marriage can bring tears of unparalleled joy, or tears of intense pain and grief. After the Lord, a good marriage partner can be the greatest help we have in life. As the old marriage ceremony goes, […]
During a football game one Sunday afternoon, one of the players got upset at a referee after he disagreed with a call that he made. The player was twice as big as the referee and probably ten times as strong. He was angry, and his anger prompted him to do something unthinkable and unacceptable. He […]
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said: “It is always the right time to do the right thing.” Joey Prusak, a teenager from Minnesota and manager of a Dairy Queen, is a person who demonstrated that thought. Joey is a 19-year-old manager at a Dairy Queen in Minnesota. While serving customers in 2013, Joey observed […]
A quote attributed to a man named Paul Washer blessed me since I happened upon it — “I have given Christ many reasons not to love me. None of them changed his mind.” To that we should all say, “Amen” (see Romans 3:23) and also, “Praise be to God” for the love that compelled Him […]
In a hospital setting, cleanliness is very important. In fact, the closer you get to the operating room, the more important cleanliness becomes. Doctors in an operating room are very concerned that the scalpel not only is not covered in dirt, but that it’s not even dusty because the smallest amount of impurity contaminates the […]
Helen Rowland said, “Marriage is like twirling a baton or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.” So it does. But it’s not easy. The prevalence of divorce proves that. Al and Tipper Gore stunned many when they announced in June 2000 that after 40 years of marriage, they were calling it […]
The pop / soul singing group “Sister Sledge” was formed in 1971. The group consisted of sisters Debbie, Joni, Kim, and Kathy Sledge. This set of sibling singers achieved spectacular success internationally at the height of the “disco” era of modern music. In April, 1979, they released their breakthrough album “We Are Family” which included […]
No one knows when the return of Jesus Christ will happen. But what the Bible does reveal about the world’s ultimate consummation should bring godly motivation. This was the point Jesus made in the parable about the ten virgins in Matthew 25. In a Jewish wedding ceremony, the groom and his groomsmen would pick up […]