Early on a Tuesday morning, in April of 1959 I entered this world much to my parents dismay. I was what some people call a “happy accident,” but in my parents case it didn’t start out all that happy. They already had four boys from ages 5 to 17 and…
A colleague recently posted a highly controversial cartoon on their wall about the “stand your ground” laws in Florida. He then proceeded to describe why he disagreed with the laws, loved the cartoon and didn’t feel Christians should support a law that promotes violence (that is a weak paraphrase). My…
Another case is dominating the news pages and the liberal media is once again attacking the Stand your Ground laws being adopted by more and more states. There are so many issues here that it is difficult to address them all, but allow me to add a little clarity to…
I am one of those guys who grasped for the brass ring and chased after the ever-elusive dream only to learn that my value to society is not in becoming famous, or recognized, or wealthy. To be the best I can be very simply is to be genuine, to be…
I was sitting in church Sunday and our local preacher reminded me that I am getting to be an old man. During his sermon he said something to the effect, “You know your getting old when you start asking, why do things have to change?” It was at that moment…
I am prepared to go down fighting, kicking and screaming with heel marks pasted across the floor. That is often how I feel when I stop and think of all they implications of the modern world and how it has impacted our society. Even as I write this, I know…
For the past couple of days I have had to suck it up and get ready for our last big fundraising event of the year. It started Sunday when I woke up to learn that a hit and run driver had side swiped one of our cars parked on the…
I have decided that I hate the “like” button on Facebook because it is endemic of our society. It illustrates a societal trend of jumping on someone else’s ideological bandwagon. We don’t have to think for ourselves anymore – all we have to do is “LIKE” someone else’s political post,…
Have you ever been in a situation where the general consensus is contrary to your opinion (maybe even contrary to the obvious facts of a situation), but you weren’t sure if this was the venue to pick a fight. My advice – speak up. When I was younger I used…
“Tell Bill the word is integrity.” There are not many images that stick in my mind for decades at a time, but those words, “Tell Bill the word is integrity,” do. They appeared to me in a wonderful little book entitled, “A Touch of Wonder” by Arthur C. Gordon. In…