“Mens sana, in corpore sano” goes the old Latin saying. “A healthy mind in a healthy body.” It’s vital that we pay proper attention not only to our physical existence, but also to our minds and souls — to the intangible but essential part of who we are. While I write a lot about things […]
Comic Belief: Miracles out of Messes
I’d had my share of mess-ups even before I became a speaker. In my last year of graduate school during Psychotherapy practicum, I was given my first patient. Thinking I was the next Sigmund Freud, I grew a beard, smoked a pipe and looked psychological. My patient had test anxiety, and I was to do […]
Outside the Walls: Fatherly Advice
“I already know, Dad.” I had my doubts in the confidence that exuded from my oldest son, Caden, as he took the car keys from me. He put the car in drive and sped off entirely too fast with the DMV in the rearview mirror. I had a lot of thoughts that flowed through my […]
Editor’s Word: The Power of Theology Is Applying It
Recently, my middle daughter shared with me that she and her husband were reading through Wayne Grudem’s “Systematic Theology.” I was impressed, to say the least! She said it was not difficult reading. That conversation spurred me to think through the whole subject of theology. We might have a tendency to think of it as […]
Outside the Walls: Show the Son
“We aren’t in South Carolina anymore,” I thought as I looked around at the makeshift housing along the roadside, and the conditions in the school that would be our home for the week in Puerto Rico. It was the first mission experience where our students were immersed in another culture and a flight away from […]
Wholly Healthy: Sexual Abuse — Know the Signs
It seems that every week, every month, we learn of another allegation of the sexual abuse of children. While it’s easy to throw stones at various groups, a horrible truth remains: Humans are sinful and abusive. We can find sexual abuse in any group. It’s not a problem that can be relegated to Catholics or […]
Editor’s Word: America’s population is aging
As a nation, we are getting older. That reality touches just about every area of American life. Everything from new razor blades that are designed to help shave another person to remote patient monitoring and innovative health care delivery systems are just a couple of the new offerings for an aging population. By 2030, according […]
Comic Belief: GOLF: GAME OF LIFE = FINISH
The other day, I lived out one of my dreams. I played golf at the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, and the management provided me with a caddie. Me, with a caddie. I felt like a real pro. It was a little stressful at the first tee. I took a mighty swing and […]
Outside the Walls: One Sweet Prayer
“Daddy, can I have some Easter candy for breakfast?” As cute as my son Corder is, there are some requests that fall on deaf ears in my house (especially when Grandmama isn’t around). However, there are other requests that put me on the move every time: “Daddy, can you help me with my homework? Daddy, […]
Comic Belief: Everyone’s talking about L.O.V.E.
Everyone is talking about love. The Bible says we are to love one another. It sounds good, but it seems impossible. Whoever said, “I love mankind; it’s the people I can’t stand,” was right. A waitress running a cash register got irritated because everyone who walked by asked what time it was. Finally she bought […]