Okay, I lied. It wasn’t intentional, but when I said I wasn’t going to write again until after the cruise I forgot that sometimes things just have to be said! (not that this column is one of those things…) If I were to pass out to each of you different colored glasses and, then, I [...]
What did it for me was “Lasciviousness.” I might need to explain: not the word so much as the way we used it. I was probably fourteen at the time and had been very well schooled in every doctrine and argument of the church. No kidding: I had read all of Foy E. Wallace Jr.’s [...]
It is hard to imagine you haven’t seen something after you have. Let me explain: I saw The Ten Commandments so I know what Moses looked like and what the parting of the Red Sea was all about. Kind of. Had I been there, though, and seen it firsthand without the benefit of 48 years [...]
[NOTE: Patrick is posting several articles this week and next since he will be out of the country June 30 - July 10. Remember to go to escape2sea.com if you want to go on a cruise with him and his friends next January 7th. Only a dozen or so cabins are left.] It hadn’t been [...]
From early on in our family’s life we made a habit of gathering around the table once every six months or so and making a list of those things we believed and lived by. They weren’t lists of rules (eat your veggies, tithe, etc.) but lists of overriding principles; a description of who we were [...]
Here’s a story that changed my life when I first heard it from Jack Exum nearly twenty years ago. Jack was once a missionary in Northern Ireland and the Irish, like the Brits, drive on the other (aka “proper”) side of the road. They also prefer roundabouts to stop signs as it keeps the traffic [...]
I still have the photo in my wallet. Not “A” photo but “THE” photo. It is my wife’s senior picture, taken just a few months before we were married twenty six years ago. I have more recent photos of her in my planner, but the one in my wallet is the one I see most. [...]
Several posts ago I mentioned that I signed out my son from school and put “want to” under “reason.” More than one commented that they wished they could do that. Can’t you? And what is stopping you? We are the fathers of our sons and daughters. We are the protectors, the ones who take the [...]
I’ve always been a big fan of Deuteronomy 6:1-9. It is the way we decided to raise our two kids — one now an adult and the other almost there. We were never very good at figuring out formal family devotionals and sitting down every night like the John Nelson family did in the old [...]