It’s a fine distinction: Memorial Day is for remembering those who died during war; Veterans Day is to celebrate all of those who have served in our military. Is it okay to celebrate during both special days? Absolutely! We are grateful for both those who died protecting our freedoms, those who served in the past, and those who continue to serve. The first such remembrance day goes back to May 1, 1865 in Charleston, S.C., at the close of the Civil War. More than 10,000 people joined freed … [Read more...]
The importance of relative care, foster care
Take just a moment and think back to when you were a child. Think about how you depended on your parents and family to take care of your needs. Think about your friends and all the familiar places and things you did. Now, use your imagination further – what if you had to be placed in foster care due to abuse or neglect? Imagine how traumatizing that would be. Would you want the case manager assigned to you to place you with someone you know (a relative or friend) or with someone you … [Read more...]
‘Let Israel hope in the Lord’
One of my favorite films, the musical classic “Fiddler on the Roof,” depicts the joys and sorrows of a small community of Jews living around the year 1905 in the fictional Ukrainian village of Anatevka. From sunrise to sunset, the endearing protagonist Tevye lives, with his kith and kin, like a fiddler on the roof, “trying to scratch out a pleasant simple tune without breaking his neck.” The film powerfully depicts the longing of these Jewish “strangers in a strange land,” exiled from the … [Read more...]
The Que-Burger Indicator
I like looking at charts. Don’t you? They can convey a lot of information in a visually appealing way. While they can also mislead (just like words), they allow the brain to process data in a way that often communicates more powerfully than written or spoken words. (At least, from a guy who likes looking at charts.) Recently, while looking at a chart of the dollar’s value over time, I knew inflation was reducing the buying power of my dollar because of the Que-Burger Indicator. The … [Read more...]
Legacies of Commitment
My wife and I were blessed to enjoy an example of marital commitment that spanned over 130 years between her parents and my parents. While some would say, “but times have changed,” these couples weathered the swinging 60s, tumultuous 70s and the economic challenges of the 1980s. While the accumulation of years has slowed by the passing of Julie’s mother, the example of our parent’s marital commitment shines as an example to their children and grandchildren. While our parents walked similar … [Read more...]
Glad mom is home
The word of God is quite clear that those who know the Lord, not merely know about the Lord, are destined for life with our Heavenly Father for all eternity. Not everyone knows this truth, and part of who we are as Christ-followers is helping people hear and receive the gospel message. For genuine believers in Christ, heaven is our home. My mom is home. I miss her. As I pause to write this column, my mind is filled with mental images of her. Her smile was warm and hospitable. There was … [Read more...]
Let us remember: ‘We are bound for the Promised Land’
More than 2 million people flocked to northern Italy in 2010 to take a rare glimpse at the Shroud of Turin, purportedly the burial clothe of the crucified Christ, bearing His image. Another 2 million-plus pilgrims visited the shroud again in 2015. Five hundred years ago, by contrast, Protestant Reformers renounced such pilgrimages as, at best, vain superstition. The sixteenth-century English Bible translator William Tyndale, for example, criticized pilgrims who journeyed from church to … [Read more...]
Knock-knock, He’s there
There’s a longstanding debate over which knock-knock joke is the best of all time. I would like to call it a knock-knock knock-down-drag-out, but I’m afraid you’d stop reading and I hate to lose readers in the first paragraph. We can’t argue that there are definitely knock-knock joke staples. I can give just a word or two of some of these and you hear the entire joke in your head. Like that yodelly one with “little old lady who.” Or how about “Boo who?” “You don’t have to cry about it, … [Read more...]
Mansion in glory
I recently had the opportunity to visit Beaufort, South Carolina, for the annual gathering of State Baptist Foundation Presidents. Amid our meetings, strategy sessions and prayer, we had a bit of time to explore the area’s history. Founded in 1711, Beaufort played significant roles both in the Revolutionary and Civil War due to its location among the Sea Islands. It also played a unique and shameful role in the slave trade. During those difficult days, true heroes like Harriet Tubman and … [Read more...]
Children learn from nature
“Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” – Luke 12:27 (NKJV) Isn’t it amazing how God created the world and everything goes together? It is hard to understand how anyone could think that it all could “just happen”. Children can learn much from nature, such as how God planned for it all to work together, gave it the nourishment needed, and an example of the resurrection. God … [Read more...]
Not ready yet!
Who hasn’t ridden with kids in the car on a long journey? You may not have children yet, but you were a child once upon a time. Every kid asks or is tempted to ask, “Are we there yet?” As a dad, church bus driver, and husband, my most common response to this question is, “Five more minutes.” We are close, but just not close enough to our destination or pit stop. Sharon and I are remodeling our home. I call it the House of 10,000 Projects (Not the Money Pit). It seems every week Sharon … [Read more...]
Jackson County law criminalizes gospel’s call to conversion
“I know a leading psychiatrist who thinks it a bad week if he does not help two or three of his patients to (place faith in) Christ,” the Christian apologist and Oxford don Michael Green once wrote. Unfortunately, should that psychiatrist ever move to Kansas City, Mo., he could be the target of government prosecution for sharing his faith with patients – particularly, if he shares the gospel with children confused about their gender. As previously reported in The Pathway (here and here), … [Read more...]
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