Nov 4, 2015 | Christian Living, Psalms
I learned my first Latin paradigms years ago with a nonsense phrase: OSTMUSTISNT. I put the words endings I needed to remember together in a made-up word. Whenever I need to remember those endings, I simply recall this nonsense word. Students have always used mnemonic...
Oct 21, 2015 | Christian Living, Psalms, The Bible
I associate Psalm 23 with an uncle who passed away when I was a child. He was a World War II veteran and he was, as we used to say, shell-shocked. He had a terrible nervous disorder. Doctors were unable to control his blood pressure and he died unexpectedly one night....
Apr 20, 2015 | Christian Living, Family
I can recall watching my mother, years ago, burst into tears as she prepared for brain surgery. Every step and every moment of that process was enormously difficult. My mother was a gracious woman, but she was anxious when we arrived at the hospital together, and the...
Dec 15, 2014 | Family, The Bible
Years ago when our youngest son Paul was about 4 ½ years old, he decided to count down the days to Christmas. He had just enough memory and cognizance to realize that Christmas was an exciting time. For weeks he asked us over and over—“When’s Christmas? When’s...
Nov 24, 2014 | Christian Living, Culture
Some time ago I did a funeral and was saddened to realize that I was dealing with a family that had no tradition of Christian faith. The patriarch of this family had passed away in his early 60s, and his daughter wanted me to do his funeral. The family had no...
