Dear friends, Patty and I were waiting to board a plane from London Heathrow to Harare, Zimbabwe several years ago. I saw a young man who was also waiting and reading his Bible. I said, “You don’t really believe what you are reading do you?” He said, “yes sir I do!” I said something like,…
Posts from September 2017
Dear sojourners, Life is full of questions! Some are trivial, some essential and some indispensable! How would you answer this question? What kind of people go to “heaven” if indeed such a place exists? A common answer is, “good people go to heaven.” The logic flows something like this: There is a good God who…
Although historians disagree on the details, most agree that President Abraham Lincoln tried to buy slaves during the Civil War in order to set them free. In one case, Lincoln personally offered to buy a slave from an owner. Kentucky was on the Union side but was unwilling to emancipate the slaves that lived there. In late…
Have you ever said, “When I win the lottery…” It has become an idiom, even for people like me who do not play, for a financial windfall that solves every problem and guarantees a happy life. This is why millions of people continue to buy their tickets, despite the fact that the odds of winning…