This week our nation is mourning the loss of former Secretary of State Colin Powell. As often happens when a celebrity dies, social media has been flooded with posts highlighting information about his personal life, his accolades, his contributions to our society, and personal quotes. I would like to share one of those quotes with […]
Let’s talk about money. Sometimes people say money is the root of all evil, but the Bible never does. More on that in a moment. Further, the Bible never says being materially poor is somehow inherently better than not being poor – unless, that is, we are talking about people who are “poor in spirit.” […]
Most people, or at least a lot of people, know that “fleece” is “the wooly covering of a sheep.” Research reveals as far back as the 1570’s the literal sense of “fleecing” was “to strip a sheep of fleece.” Fleecing a sheep leaves it more vulnerable to the elements, in a sense “stealing” the coat […]
Will money make you happy? Arnold Schwarzenegger answers, “Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.” On Monday night, October 4, 2021 a single ticket sold in the Morro Bay area of California won the $699.8 million Powerball lottery jackpot after matching […]
Early American Benjamin Franklin once made this terse irrefutable observation: – “The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still ‘tis nonsense.” There may be no topic about which more learned nonsense is spoken and written than the origin of the cosmos and everything in it, including you and me! […]
A surgeon was very selective with the people he wanted to work with. It was the first day on the job for a young nurse and the surgeon decided to issue a test. As the young nurse assisted the surgeon during a procedure, she noticed a problem. She said to the surgeon, “You’ve only removed […]
One day a woman went to her minister and informed him that she wouldn’t be attending church services anymore. The minister, who was caught off guard, responded, “But why?” The woman went on to explain her reasoning, “I heard another woman gossiping about another member, a man who is a hypocrite, the song leader is […]
There once was a little boy who came to his father and said, “Dad, I’m eight feet tall.” His father looked at him and said, “You can’t be. You’re not eight feet tall.” But the boy insisted, “Yes, I am Dad. I’m eight feet tall. The ruler says that I’m eight feet tall!” The father […]
There’s a story about a young boy with a very bad temper. The boy’s father wanted to teach him a lesson, so he gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he had to hammer a nail into their wooden fence. On the first day of this […]
Maybe you’ve heard the story of the man who was trying to teach his horse to obey and to stop and start on command. Being a very religious man, he came up with a couple of religious statements to use in training his horse. He trained the horse to go forward when he said, “Praise […]