“We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 5:8) I believe the above verse; and I wonder just what Tim McVeigh thought when his spirit left his body and he saw God. Interestingly, McVeigh chose not to offer any last words that might have brought some comfort to the families of the 168 people he killed. Instead, he chose to portray himself as the one who was suffering, a martyr. “I am the […]

“If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.” (1 Corinthians 15:13) I consider it a real joy and privilege to write this column. In fact, many of you have told me that it’s one of the first things you look for in the newspaper on Saturday morning. Do me a favor. When you finish my column this morning, stop and say a prayer for my family and me. When I moved to Griffin in 1992, I thought […]

“Honor your father and your mother.” (Exodus 20:12) Tomorrow is a big day in the life of mothers. In fact, our country has celebrated Mother’s 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 Mother’s Day now carries with it. Its founder […]

“He sighed deeply and said, ‘Why does this generation ask for a miraculous sign? I tell you the truth, no sign will be given to it’.” (Mark 8:12) When I was in graduate school, I took a course in organization theory. In the early weeks of the semester, I realized that I did not have so much as a clue as to what that course was about. I didn’t understand the readings and found the lectures to be even more confusing. I finally worked up the courage to […]