Category Archives: Passage To Ponder

As football begins, I’m reminded of the story of Johnny, who loved playing sandlot football, but was just a scrawny, little kid and a bench warmer on his high school team.

Johnny’s chance came when the first-string quarterback broke his ankle, and he became a starter. His dream was to play college football at Notre Dame, but he was rejected. The University of Pittsburgh offered him a scholarship, but he failed the entrance exam. Finally, the University of Louisville offered him a scholarship. Continue reading →

“Outside St. James Church in Shere, England, you will find a metal plaque marking the site of the cell of Christine Carpenter, Anchoress of Shere 1329,” according to a post in PreachingToday.com.

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This month, Norma Jean and I will celebrate our 57th wedding anniversary.

We married at a time when divorce rates were increasing, due to a change of laws that introduced no-fault divorce and a shift in moral values. The divorce rate peaked at about 50%. In recent years, the number has decreased slightly and is now approximately 42%. Continue reading →

I recently read that an African impala can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance of greater than 30 feet. Yet these magnificent creatures can be kept in an enclosure in any zoo with a 3-foot wall.

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In the past five months since Donald J. Trump began his second term in office, he has continued to be criticized, second-guessed, and verbally attacked with vengeance and vitriol.

He must be the first President in history that can’t do anything right. He’s been subject to intense scrutiny and criticism over actions and policies his predecessors have taken, or at least promoted, yet they were not castigated by the news media. Continue reading →

Billy Sunday once said in a sermon that there are 256 names given for Jesus in the Bible. Then he added, “I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express.” Sunday’s comment reminds me of an observation made by Ralph Waldo Emerson who said that Jesus’ name “is not so much written as ploughed into the history of this world.”

I’ve been working on a series of lessons for the Wellandport VBS about the names of Jesus based on material from Apologetics Press. The five we’ll be studying are Messiah, Nazarene, Lord, Almighty, and Savior. I wish we could have a sixth lesson from today’s text Continue reading →