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Many aphorisms and idioms in use today trace their origin to Biblical writ, such as: A drop in the bucket (Isa. 40:15) Treat others as you want to be treated (Luke 6:31) By the skin of your teeth (Job 19:20) A wolf in sheep's clothing
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Mickey Mantle was one of the greatest baseball players in history. Sometimes referred to as \played for the New York Yankees from 1951 to 1968. During these years he hit 536 home runs and received 3 MVP awards. He was a switch hitter and is the only player in history
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Some think that Tess of the D'Urberville's was the greatest of Thomas Hardy's novels; many high school students read his The Return of the Native. His last book was Jude the Obscure. He lived another 33 years after it was published but chose never
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Apparently, most clever murderers are fictional. Agatha Christie came up with some of the most ingenious and bizarre plots, in which the murderer remains unknown until the very end of the story—and often it was a person that the reader did not expect. Columbo could unravel the well-laid
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A man in the Orlando area has been promoting church oneness. He seems to be earnest and sincere in trying to have Christians be one. He stopped by the building here one Sunday morning during Bible class. Your congenial editor was not teaching that morning and spoke with him, indicating
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On December 22, 2021, I came across a comic strip I had never seen before in the daily newspaper, called, WUMO, by Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler. It only had one frame, in which four adults were sitting around the table—playing a game. The caption underneath read simply, “Post-
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Presumably, society will always be plagued by incidents of violence. Probably, most citizens of any country oppose evil, destructive acts against persons and property—especially when perpetrated against the innocent. Predictably, however, when such unjustified treatment of others becomes commonplace, many seem to build up an immunity towards the inhumanity,
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With the demise of Francis (April 21, 2025), a new search begins for the next pope, and the questions people are asking include, “What will he be like? Will he stress ecumenism? Will he soften the church’s stance on abortion? Will he endorse homosexual marriages? Will he become more
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Scripture warns us not to be deceived (1 Cor. 6:9; 15:33). We can be deceived in many ways, but one of the major sources of deception is self. We find ways to avoid facing unpleasant truth and rationalize away personal guilt. It is foolish to try to deceive
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In 1977, musician/singer Billy Joel released an album titled The Stranger. The signature song on that album was "Just the Way You Are," which won two Grammy awards in 1979. The song was about his first wife, Elizabeth Weber, and as the title of the song implies,
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A blessing we often take for granted these days is the ease of access we have to a wealth of information. This generation walks around with devices in their pockets that would have been considered miraculous just a century ago. Imagine trying to explain a smartphone to someone from the
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As a teenager, mom and dad took us to hear the late brother Marshall Keeble in a tent meeting at Lawton, Oklahoma; he said: "A man is not saved and then baptized. A woman does not wash clothes because they are clean. I have seen a lot of smart