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My friend scored me a seat directly in front of the speaker at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes banquet the other night. I was blessed to hear Dan Reeves deliver his perspective on life from a football champion’s point of view. He had played for the University of South Carolina and the Dallas Cowboys. He’d…
It happened to me at age sixteen. Near closing time at the neighborhood drugstore where I clerked the front counter, the cafe owner next door poked his head in to say I was welcome to his leftover apple turnovers. I always bought one to go with my lunch. After we locked up, I dashed over…
Last night, I watched the closing ceremonies of the 2018 Winter Olympics with tears in my eyes, reminiscing about the three years I served as BellSouth Telecommunications’ manager-Olympic Programs for the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta. We can poke fun at ourselves about the hair-frizzing humidity, hip-bruising holsters containing the latest technology (pager, walkie talkie…
Pinterest rocks! Need ideas for ANYTHING? Surf Pinterest. The week before Thanksgiving, my daughter sent me a pin on a stunning table centerpiece. It featured white pumpkins covered with writing. Squinting, I realized the words were expressions of gratitude. Stellar idea! I wrote “I Am Thankful For…” on two white pumpkins and plopped them in the…
Beliot College, located in Wisconsin, crawls into the minds of its freshmen each fall semester and comes up with a list of their mindsets. This freshman class, most of whom were born in 1999 and slated to graduate in 2021, is the last year of the Millennials. Here are a few of the findings Beliot…
During worship service on Sunday, November 5, a gunman opened fire inside and out of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, a small community east of San Antonio, Texas. Twenty-six church members, ranging in age from five to seventy-two, didn’t survive the attack. My heart breaks for their families. News sources report the gunman…
Imagine the worst thing that could happen. Then, multiply it by three. My 15-year-old friend ran away from home with her two friends last week. Within twenty-four hours, they had shoplifted, interfered with a police officer, and stolen three cars, each from a different county. None had a driver’s license. They wrecked the last car,…
Our neighbor noticed a small bump in his driveway. Over the course of a few weeks, it grew larger and larger, finally breaking the asphalt. What on earth could rupture something so thick and hard? Unable to contain our curiosity, we pulled back the cracked edges and discovered a beige, rubbery substance. My neighbor poked…
I’m a HUGE football fan . . . SEC football, that is. I graduated from the University of Georgia and proudly call myself a Bulldog. I can bark with the best of them. Georgia fans have started a new tradition at the beginning of the fourth quarter—doesn’t matter whether we’re home or away. We flick…
Why do retailers set up their shelves of Christmas products BEFORE Halloween and start playing Christmas music the day after? Because Christians are enabling this commercialization. Remember that the Advent season of preparation for the celebration of Christmas starts the fourth Sunday before December 25. This year, Advent begins Sunday, December 3. Help stop the…