Anyone trying to stand strong on truth can sometimes feel all alone, outnumbered, hopeless, “losing.” Or at least ill-equipped to keep battling what’s false, evil, dark. Perhaps some of that…
King Asa’s Prayer
Tag: faith
Step 1: Think Right
The ad was for one of those TV shows in which people marry at first sight or marry someone just released from prison. A distraught woman was wailing, “I didn’t…
Doggone Those Heroes!
Certain people’s lives cause me to say, “Yep, he/she ruins the curve.” Meaning that in spite of horrific circumstances, the person stayed on the Lord’s path, continued to pray and…
Trained Controversialists
The following quote is reflecting a situation from many, many years ago—and in another part of the world. But it struck me as resembling, just a bit too closely, our…
The Ten Commandments Will Not Budge
I taught teen Sunday school the whole decade of the 1990s. During the week, these kids would watch the trashy TV talk shows when they got home from school. I…