Alcohol Is Most Harmful Drug
Science is telling us something that we have known for decades: Alcohol is deadly. The surprising news is that it is the most dangerous drug presently available legally or illegally. The report, detailed in the British medical journal Lancet and detailed in an article titled Study:Alcohol ‘most harmful drug’ at CNN.com, takes into consideration the […]
Bible Class and School
School attendance is important. It’s so important that it is legally mandatory in most states. For most of us we would never consider letting children miss school. We get them there, demand a thorough education and support the teachers by requiring homework to be completed and turned in. That’s good. We should. But some have […]
Thankful
In case it is slipping up on you please take note. Thursday is Thanksgiving. Life seems so busy. It’s a little embarrassing that we need a special day to be thankful but it does serve a purpose. As he ended his first letter to the Thessalonians Paul had these words, emphasis is min: “Rejoice always, […]
Is That A Ghoul in my Front Yard?
We do not like to think about death – except at Halloween. This once a year fright night brings around all sorts of “undead” to haunt the neighborhood in search of goodies. As expected there is also the usual crowd of scary movies released just in time for the spookie holiday. I thought I would […]
Walk Away and Stop Gossip
In the past year we have written 6 articles trying to stop gossip. We recommend learning to walk away and stop gossiping by refusing to be a part of it. These articles continue to attract comments and questions. Gossip was our first article written a year ago. It’s a good broad introduction to the problem […]
The Need for Good
The business of being a good person is a worthy pursuit. We desire goodness in others especially when they are dealing with us. We should try to be good people ourselves and show that quality to others when we deal with them. Goodness speaks to the quality of our hearts. While one may be able […]
Shut My Mouth! 5 Ways to Stop Being a Gossip
After reading 5 Ways to Stop Gossip, one of our readers asked; “How should the gossiper stop gossiping; if it is a struggle in his or her life?” That’s a great question. We have talked about how you can stop gossip at work and how to stop gossip in the church, but never about how […]
5 Lessons from a Dead Tree
Life lessons come from the strangest places. Friday morning I took short walk along the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay and saw this tall and very dead pine tree standing among many living trees. Some lessons started tumbling through my head. Let me share them. 1. Death Leaves an Empty Spot If you use you […]
Christian Slaves
Servant. Slave. Neither title is very appealing to us. Master. Leader. Boss. These are better terms for us. More appealing. Comforting. Encouraging. Rewarding. But there’s a problem. Christians aren’t called to be bosses. We’re called to be servants and slaves. Used almost 150 times in the New Testament the terms are frequently used to describe […]
School Starts
Schools resume tomorrow in Baldwin County. With their opening things begin to move back into a routine. Summer vacations are over and most people will get back into a Monday through Friday routine that will go largely unchanged until May. With such a key date looming as the start of school we might decide to […]
