Hi Friend, There are profound concepts that a minister must deal with from time to time.  A man in another profession may face the same idea, give it a passing thought, and move on, but the minister has to answer the question.  That requires thought about things others might sweep

Hi Friend, When Jesus instructed his disciples to go and make disciples of all men, he spoke from an underlying assumption. Namely that all men are made in the image of God and thus all men were created with an internal receptor for the Spirit of God. On the one

Hi Friend, In his book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” Dale Carnegie made the insightful statement that the most basic motivating factor for man is power.  Money, he believed, was only a means to obtain power. He may be right. In a psychological study of men working in

Hi Friend, From the time Adam and Eve were given the perfect world in which to live there has been a consistent problem that has remained with mankind to this day.  The explanation is revealed in the Bible when God created a world that was perfect—even for an extreme environmentalist. 

Hi Friend, Donna and I were seated for lunch when the waitress introduced herself before taking our order.  She was young, attractive and sporting several conspicuous tattoos.  On the right forearm was a large graphic of two elephants with trunks intertwined.  Putting a permanent picture of two elephants painted prominently

Hi Friend,   British Professor David Starkey walked through a graveyard in Bayeux in Northern France.  He observed there 4,000 headstones of British Commonwealth soldiers that died in WWII in Normandy to liberate the French from Nazi tyranny. The inscription carved above the classic columns of the war memorial reads:

Hi Friend, The year was 2012 when Glenn Beck had a meeting at the Vatican with the then Pope. He was clearly impressed with members of the Catholic hierarchy who candidly reported that the Catholic Church was in a fight for the soul of the church. Pope Benedict was 85

Hi Friend, It is surprising that the history of Israel is vague to many people, even students of the Bible.  David is a familiar name, maybe because he fought the giant Goliath thus becoming the hero to the underdog.  But most don’t know that Israel fought a devastating civil war

Hi Friend, On Monday our country will celebrate the founding of our nation.  Abraham Lincoln captured the sentiment when he said, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers, brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created

Hi Friend, A recent report from the Office of National Statistics in England shocked me, and it has many other free people.  They reported that almost 70,000 people died within 28 days of receiving the Covid-19 vaccine.  If it could be worse, 175,000 people died within 60 days of getting

Hi Friend, Waiting for my car to be serviced I sat next to a police officer from Sharonville, Ohio.  It’s a quiet suburb of Cincinnati that borders a conjunction of expressways. The conversation started easily as I asked him about his work.  I was surprised when he told me about

Hi Friend, Counted among those “unforgettable people” I’ve been privileged to know were Ewald and Elsie Unger whom I met in 1974. In the early ‘30’s they were young, just married and beginning a family in Germany when the madman Adolph Hitler came to power. Their homeland was swept up

Hi Friend, The nature of human beings has changed little since creation nearly 6,000 years ago. However, one internal and unseen change revolutionized the world. It transformed the nature of man. We don’t know exactly when the decision was made, but the Prophet Joel wrote about it almost 800 years

Hi Friend, The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele tweeted out on Monday, “Is there a deliberate plan to destroy the United States from within?  Why are the authorities and some of the media not even commenting on these things?  Why are they letting their beautiful cities rot?” His comment

Hi Friend, My grandparents were literate people but I doubt they ever heard the word euthanasia.  Maybe I’m wrong.  They may have euthanized a cow or sheep.  But they would have referred to euthanizing a human being by another word:  murder. They would be shocked that the state of Oregon

Hi Friend, The name Helen Keller is well known to most people. She was born to a wealthy family in Alabama in 1870 and at nineteen months of age became afflicted with an ailment that left her blind and deaf. Fewer people have heard of Annie Sullivan who became the

Hi Friend, In his book “Men and Marriage,” author George Gilder makes the salient point that it is family that causes a national economy to flourish.  He expands on the theme in his book Wealth and Poverty.  It is a profound and honest recognition of the absolute necessity of stable

Hi Friend, Steve Jobs, the founder and creative genius behind Apple Computers, accomplished some amazing feats during his life but there is one of the most significant is almost unknown.  One surprising narrative is that he was the force of restraint to keep pornography off the iPad.  In a 2010

Hi Friend, When boarding a commercial jet, the mind goes to all the things that could go wrong.  It’s more than just moving at over 500 mph—you’re seven miles above the surface of the earth.  I’m nervous about climbing a ladder to clean the gutters.  I tell myself that more

Hi Friend, It is spring when flowers poke their colorful heads out of the ground and the newness of life is celebrated by the Holy Days of God.  The promises begin with the Passover Lamb who was sacrificed for the sins of man.  These sacred days culminate in the fall