Saying Thank You

Two of the most important words in the English language are “thank you.” How we like to hear those words. And how easily hurt we can become if we do something for someone and never hear a word of thanks. As parents, we regularly remind our children to say...

Center Your Thoughts on God

In many ways the Bible is an instruction book on how to live. Listen to some of its most familiar words – found in the twenty-third Psalm: The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He...

What’s the Point of Going to Church?

Have you given much thought as to why you do or do not attend church? Have you asked yourself, “What’s the point of going to church?” Teddy Roosevelt once said, “Even if the preacher can’t preach for sour apples, and the choir is more...

Someone Who’s Been Like a Father

Men who aren’t fathers shouldn’t assume that Father’s Day is not for them. Think of the greeting cards that say, “To Someone Who’s been like a Father to Me.” St. Paul was like that. Although he’s not known to have had any...

Ordinary Dads

Father’s Day inspires stories of famous and heroic fathers with whom you may not identify. You say, “What about ordinary guys like me?” Let me tell you about a man in the Bible named Isaac. Isaac lived in the shadow of his far more famous father,...