“According to your faith, it will be done to you.” (Matthew 9:29) Microsoft’s operating system, Windows XP, has been selling for over four years now. I just bought a laptop computer for my daughter for college preloaded with it. When you first turn on the computer, you have several days to activate the operating system. Activation is Microsoft’s way of forcing you to register your product. When you register it, Microsoft takes an image of your drive, which prevents you from installing it on another computer. In other […]

“And hearing they may hear and not understand.” (Mark 4:12) Several weeks ago, my wife and I were visiting friends in Georgia and heard a humorous story about a misunderstanding their seven-year old daughter had. She attends a private Christian school operated by their church, but has a close friend that attends public school. When she was five, her mother was taking her to another town and they passed by a Publix Supermarket. “Mom,” she asked. “Is that the Publix School that he attends?” We laughed when her […]

“Honor your father and your mother.” (Exodus 20:12) Sunday is a big day in the life of mothers. In fact, our country has celebrated Mothers Day on the second Sunday in May ever since President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it as a national holiday in 1914. But that’s just part of the story about how one of our nation’s most coveted days began. Strangely, the rest of the story has been forgotten, given way I guess to all the commercialism that Mothers Day now carries with it. Its founder […]

“But you, O Sovereign Lord, deal well with me for your name’s sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.” (Psalms 109:21) I have a friend who had a near-fatal accident several years ago. She was returning home from a church outing in moderate rain when her mini-van began to hydroplane. The vehicle plummeted down a steep embankment, turning over several times. She, and the teenagers who were with her, escaped serious injury in spite of the circumstances. She knew she was more than lucky and […]