I read about this the other day and it broke my heart once again. I read about it from time to time and I have the same response every time those words are read. In my mind I always think, they just had a mob mentality.  Let me share with you some of the things that are included in what I read that caused me to define the situation as a mob mentality. There were accusations.  Accusing someone of something doesn’t make it true. Knowing the facts about a person or a situation is so important, but, sadly, the facts are often unknown or ignored. There was mocking.  Mocking means to make fun…

A neighbor of ours recently had a couple of trees removed. Now that, in itself, is nothing unusual. We live in a neighborhood where most people keep their yards fairly neat, so having trees worked on is rather common. However, what was left behind after the removal helped my mind formulate a reminder that I needed. The trees that were removed were evergreens (I think they were some type of cypress, but I’m not too good at that type of thing). There were two of them, and they were quite overgrown, as their branches covered a large section of the road. I would presume that was the main reason they…

What is your first reaction to reading the title of this post? Is it not the case that those four words are usually used by somebody who is making an attempt to “wash their hands” of any responsibility? I hope that you will consider some thoughts about those words that are totally foreign to the idea of using them to absolve myself of any responsibility. Instead, they can be used in the context of being coupled with responsibility.   Some who read this already know that I serve as one of the elders of the Central church of Christ in Paducah, Kentucky. The New Testament teaches that this means that I am…

I’ve been writing a lot lately about sheep. Maybe it is just because my daily Bible reading has included a lot of Psalms lately. I don’t know. Anyway, I came across an article very recently that just struck me in an odd way, especially in light of all the sheep writing I’ve been doing. It spoke about how a couple of companies–one in the USA and one in New Zealand–have partnered together to create a robotic dog and they are testing it out with the task of herding sheep in New Zealand. (Oddly, they named the robotic dog with the same name as our family dog, Spot.) They claim that…

In an earlier post, we looked at and made some comments about Paul’s recounting of his conversion to Christ as recorded in Acts 22. Specifically, we dealt with two questions he asked: “Who are you?” and “What shall I do, Lord?”  s you may or may not remember, we ended that post with this: It seems to me that, in every area of our lives, we need to ask ourselves the following questions and make sure we keep them in the proper order.What (or who) is the source of the information I am receiving?Exactly what am I being told and/or asked to do?Do I have the kind of heart that will allow…