Several years ago my friend and teacher, Ken Boa, in his Wednesday morning Bible Study, mentioned how Moses, in Psalm 90, instructs us to number our days for a specific purpose. “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” (v. 12) Just before...
Are you and I ready to die? Today? Do we ever even think about it, and about what death will mean? Probably not, at least until some condition or event suddenly inserts the reality of possible death into our everyday life. See, I even wrote “possible” death, as if...
Here are three quick updates to earlier posts, with several hyperlinks to excellent resources. Progressives: What Does Abortion Have To Do With Economic Policy? The movie Unplanned is now available on streaming video and on DVD. Whatever your thoughts on the subject,...
If I’m a broken record on the War on Drugs, consider this post to be a 45, not a 33—it’s short, but not sweet. As I wrote last November in a detailed earlier post, the War on Drugs is pure insanity: Doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different...
This Saturday I spent the first part of the day on two unrelated but connected events. In the morning I assisted my talented wife as she visited several Estate Sales on their second days, looking for bargains from the belongings of those who moved to a different...
Last week a reader of The President asked me during a group Skype discussion whether I think President Trump can return Christian values to our nation. I believe the answer is “Yes”, for him or for any President, though perhaps not as one might initially think, and...
After a season of grand political events, this month’s post will be more narrowly focused and personal. Last week I had my first-ever battle with kidney stones, from Saturday afternoon thru Thursday evening, when a surgeon at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta removed one...
Most believers have experienced friends or family members who tell them “I used to be a Christian, until I studied the Bible.” Or some variation on the “I’m too intelligent to believe in a Mesopotamian myth” theme. I heard that again this week from a wonderful,...
Secular Atheist Demolishes Darwinian Evolution Thomas Nagel is a University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at New YorkUniversity. He is a well known secularist and atheist. And yet, in his new book Mind and Cosmos, or Why the...
Last week Mark Tidwell spoke at Ken Boa’s Bible Study in Atlanta. Please, when you have forty-two minutes, watch Mark’s talk at https://www.kenboa.org/video/2013-01-30-wed/--nothing I could write today will have the impact of Mark’s story. And he has a powerful...
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