Confirmed Reservations Made Good morning! I am sitting at Gate 8 in Little Rock, Arkansas as I jot my thoughts today.  I remember when, as a student, flying with ‘stand-by’ status.  On the way home from college, I would go… Continue reading

“Get the credit you deserve” The fast-talking salesman in the radio commercial made his pitch to those who ‘needed’ a car but who had a bad credit history. He closed with the line, “get the credit you deserve.”  A loan… Continue reading

I stood admiring the car that was more than 60 years old. I saw the ‘before’ and the ‘after.’ It had just been towed in from the barn where it had sat for decades the first time I saw it.… Continue reading

God’s guerrillas You are on a mission for God!  Your aim?  Reconciliation of people; to each other and with God. It’s a dangerous calling, often putting you into the cross-fire.  It can be thankless and is best accomplished when you… Continue reading

More to his life than . . . Most morning as I page through the local newspaper, I scan the obituaries.  Lives are compressed into a few paragraphs that tell us the essential facts but seldom very much about the… Continue reading

The dark side of justice? The red sedan passed me on the interstate like I was parked, though I was cruising along at 70 MPH.  He probably was going about 85 MPH.  A couple of miles down the road I… Continue reading

My Trustworthy Guide “Do you sit in judgment on the Bible or does the Bible sit in judgment on you?”  I don’t remember who first asked that question or where I read it, but it is an extremely important one. … Continue reading

The door on the hospital room had a large red stop sign attached. On it was a note: “See nurse before entering.” They gave me a mask to wear and cautioned me not to touch the patient or his bed.… Continue reading

A sin unseen “Get right with God,” the pastor says. “Clean up your language, throw away the pornography, stop taking what doesn’t belong to you.”  We ‘get it’ when talking about lust, greed, theft, and profanity.  That’s all good, for… Continue reading

Old friend, Guilt, you keep me from sleep David, Israel’s king and poet, a man who loved God and yet became an adulterous murderer, tells of the deep pain of guilt: “When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through… Continue reading