In the seventies Jim Croche recorded a haunting song called “Time in A Bottle.” You probably remember it. The song laments the swift passing of time and it’s made all the more poignant when you realize the singer himself was killed in a plane crash when he was a young man. A dear fried of […]
Reasons to Get Out of Bed in the Morning
My Dad taught be to rise early. He challenged me at twelve years old to take a morning paper route. The paper was the Dayton Journal-Herald. My first Journal-Herald route was in a the little burg of DeGraff about thirty miles northeast of Dayton. I rose around five every morning and peddled my bike around […]
Are Your Lights On?
It must have been the coldest day of the winter so far. Our neighbor silenced the pleading of his children by climbing to the top of his TV antenna tower to hang a star of colored lights. His daughter came down the hill red-cheeked, all bundled up and begged us to come up and see […]
The Saturday Evening Bell
High in the Alps of Switzerland is a village called Champrey. It was there that Francis and Edith Schaeffer settled in the years when Europe was recovering from the devastation of WWII. Students traveled to Champrey from all over the world. They came to ski and hike in the beautiful mountains surrounding the village. The […]
God Sees
You can take every precaution, but you really never sin in the dark. It is very unlikely that you will successfully conceal your sin from me. And it is impossible to conceal your sin from God. I speak from personal experience, painful and humiliating personal experience. I’d really rather not document them here, but I […]
The Funeral Of A Majestic Oak
Some men stumble through life without really noticing anything around them. They only exist, they don’t really live. Among them are those who think they have to wait until they have enough money to buy life, fools who believe the slick lies of the add slogans. Some keep looking for just the right person who […]