It’s interesting to see what people will write about you when you don’t know they’re writing it. For example, a few months ago, I finally decided to get online and see what this “Legacy” that my family keeps mentioning is all about. While I was blown away by the number of fantastically written articles and podcasts that I saw (not that I’m biased), what struck me as the most interesting was what my family had written about me in the “About” section. For those of you who have only heard about me from this short snippet, most of what was said is true. I will point out two flaws in…

Ask any Christian, and they will inevitably speak of how important it is to read, study, and talk about the Scriptures. Bible study and Bible discussions are vital to the growth of a Christian. However, too often, we allow three words to stand in the place of a true study of the Bible, or (more often) a true discussion about the Bible. They are three words that we need to remove from our Bible discussions, because they do not help one bit. What are those words? “I feel like.” How often do we hear (or say) that our feelings are what matter when it comes to matters of morality and…

It was the time for gift giving this past December. Our children, their spouses, our grandchildren, Donna, and I were all assembled for the yearly ritual. As you might expect, the grandchildren were especially excited. That just seems to come with the territory when young children are involved. However, this time there was something different about the excitement. To be sure, one of our granddaughters was excited about the gifts she might (and did) receive. She was also excited, though, about the fact that she had found gifts to give to the other family members.  We found out later that she did a lot of her “shopping” around the house in which she and…

Boom! Whoosh! Clap! Crunch! Crash! These sounds were heard Saturday evening in Cookeville, Tennessee, where I live. Thousands of trees came down all over the county. Many of those trees landed on the tops of houses. I woke up Sunday morning got out early and surveyed the damage. Many roads were still impassable. It looked like bombs had gone off and there was debris everywhere. If you looked right or left you could see the devastation. Power lines and trees were the biggest casualties. It will take our city a while to recover. It was a “hundred-year-old tree pulled up by the roots once in a lifetime” kind of storm.…

Not too long ago, I was asked to speak at the memorial service for a fine Christian lady. During the service, something caught my attention. At one point during the service, I was seated in a location where I had a very clear view of a very small drawer. Because of the location of the chair in which I was seated, I was able to, in effect, look over the shoulder of the body of the lady and see the edge of the bottom half of the lid of the casket.  As I did that, I saw something I’ve seen a few times before. For some reason, though, this time it caught my…