Like many people today, my heart is aching today for the families of nine people and a fellow church congregation in South Carolina. First let me say that the only media commentary that I have actually read or listened to with a studied mind regarding last night’s horrific murders was from Jon Stewart. His message…
This story of a 17-year-old girl in Connecticut strikes my heart as I am also the mother of a teenager who had cancer. There will be no winners in this legal battle as the teen and her mother are going through a tug of war while also being beaten by a terrible fiend called cancer. The…
Whoever pursues righteousness and unfailing love will find life, righteousness, and honor. Proverbs 21:21 (NLT) There was a man, with a God-given voice to sing,…
A truly good wife is the most precious treasure a man can find! 11 Her husband depends on her, and she never lets him down. Proverbs 31:10-11 (CEV) And the Proverb goes on to say that this woman: is good to her husband every day makes her own clothes (and the cloth!) gets up before…
Rizzoli and Isles is a show that I have enjoyed watching and the character, Detective Frost played by Lee Thompson Young, has been a favorite as he seemed more like a real person with common sense and a gentle soul. His weak stomach in the autopsy room always made me chuckle because that is me….
I have been troubled about the lessons that are being spouted about love throughout the media. There’s even a Christian online dating service that reminds us in its TV ad that God just might not be able to bring two people together and so people should put some of their own efforts into it and…
(a biography, Alabama Roots Series) by Anne Chancey Dalton (ISBN#978-1-59421-078-5) I was grew up watching the Vietnam War on TV. It was the first war televised to the world. Maybe it is because it was on television or maybe it was because it was an “unpopular” war but I haven’t read about many Vietnam War…
My husband sent me a post today and it is truly the BEST that I have read regarding the media craziness over “Ben and Jerry’s” and “Chik-Fil-A”. With my eyes cleaned out from Mr. Noble’s wise and pithy words, I was then able to enjoy eating my chicken sandwich and Chunky Monkey ice cream! “Ben…
Former pastor, Eddie Long, is the more recent in a long list of Christian leaders who have succumbed to temptation in a very public way. J. Lee Grady, former editor of Charisma wrote in his most recent blog,Phoney Rabbis, Lost Discernment and the Eddie Long Disaster True restoration requires a lengthy process of repentance, restitution and inner…
I occasionally receive an email inviting me to take a “consumer survey”. I signed up for a couple of these because no one has ever called my home asking for my opinion and I happen to think that my opinion may, in fact, reflect “middle-road-majority” America. Today I received a survey asking numerous questions about…