Reluctance
Have you ever done something with a sense of reluctance? It may have been something someone asked you to do and you felt obligated. You consented and did what you were asked to do, but you did it with reluctance. …
Year: 2016
Trey Pearson
Where do I begin? Another Christian musician has ‘come out’ in a recent article in Billboard. The tragedy of Trey Pearson is, unfortunately, becoming a little more common. The article recounts Trey Pearson being filled with conflicting emotions, mental anguish …
Who Was Ty Cobb? – Part 4
Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong The following is adapted from a speech delivered at Hillsdale College on March 7, 2016, during a program on “Sports and Character” sponsored by the College’s Center for Constructive Alternatives. …
Transgendered
Transgendered, sexual orientation disturbance, androgynous, genderqueer, gender dysphoria, multi-gendered, gender non-conforming. These are some of the terms used to describe those who have a mental disorder which contradicts their physical makeup and assigned sex at birth. This topic recently came …
God’s Desire
God loves the lost, and God’s desire is that the lost should be saved. This fact is missed because many people have an image of God as some old bearded guy sitting on a throne somewhere ‘up there.’ He’s just …
Who Was Ty Cobb? – Part 3
Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong The following is adapted from a speech delivered at Hillsdale College on March 7, 2016, during a program on “Sports and Character” sponsored by the College’s Center for Constructive Alternatives. …
Do It Again!
Teenagers are notorious for short attention spans and a focus that is easily distracted. Such was my demeanor at 16 years of age when I spent the summer with my grandfather helping him remodel a fishing cabin into his retirement …
Seeing the Invisible
I frequently have opportunities to talk to unbelievers about God, and it just so happens that because of my work in healthcare many of them are very intelligent and/or highly educated. They are not dummies. The have all kinds of …
Who Was Ty Cobb? – Part 2
Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong The following is adapted from a speech delivered at Hillsdale College on March 7, 2016, during a program on “Sports and Character” sponsored by the College’s Center for Constructive Alternatives. …
Lost Its Luster?
Did you ever have something that you really liked or enjoyed that eventually “lost its luster”? Most people have – I did. When I was in grade school one of the things I loved to do with my friends after …