While driving this morning, I caught Part 2 in a new series by Charles Swindoll. He was teaching from Nehemiah 10 and reinforcing the truth that a nation is only as strong as her home. When he said, “When the morals of a nation are under stress…,” I took notice.
I was a twenty four year old grad student when a nurse placed an 8 1/2 pound baby boy into my arms. I wasn’t even sure of the proper way to hold him. I looked at this baby and then at my beautiful and exhausted wife. She smiled and said, “You’re a father now … You have a son … What do you think?”
R. C. Sproul says that every man is a theologian–some are just better than others. If this is true, then one of my favorites is Tom Petty. And, some of his best theology comes from his song, “It’s Good To Be King.”
Sitting around the campfire with friends many years ago, I took part in a game called Two Truths and a Lie. In this game, each person made three statements and everyone else tried to figure out which one was the “untruth.” It was just a game, an icebreaker. But, in our real world, lies have terrible consequences.
“Our boys survived on Cheryl Surprise,” so my husband says. You know, that something you conjure up in the kitchen last minute and you add anything that is edible and make a new creation? When your kids say a few days or weeks later, “Hey Mom, can you make that whatever it was again?” and […]
One of the joys of living close to our children is being able to spend significant time with grandchildren. I recall one evening Cheryl and I watched two of them so their parents could go out to dinner. In addition to the usual laughs and fun we had with our six-year-old grandson and his three- year-old sister, we were witnesses to the unique way God has designed males and females.