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Well, as we approach the top 5, I strongly urge you to read these books. Each one of them is important and offers a great deal of great information.

As I begin counting down my top 10 picks for the year, I want to continue to encourage you to be a reader. Please do not be “alliterate” as I described last time (a person who can read, but does not). There is a whole world contained in books. I do understand that not everyone [...]

Over the course of the past year, I have been privileged to read more than 65 books, most of which were helpful, challenging, informative, and entertaining. In a series of 3 weblogs I wish to share with you these books. I realize your time, like mine, is so very limited. Also, there is so very [...]

Well, in case you had not noticed, it is Christmas time again. Maybe I have my holidays a bit mixed up, but instead of limiting my thankfulness to our November holiday for giving thanks, I like to especially show my thanks during the month of December during the Christmas season. In some ways, the Christmas [...]

Evangelist Oral Roberts died Tuesday December 15th at his California home following a fall at the age of 91. His son, and fellow televangelist Richard Roberts, said of his father, “he was the greatest man of God I have ever known.”

It is hardly believable that is has been ten years since we all worried about the impending disasters almost sure to occur when the millennium ended at midnight December 31st, 1999. Officials regularly told us that we did not want to be in a hospital or on an airplane when the clock struck twelve! There [...]

Well, there has been a lot in the news of late concerning golfing great Tiger Woods. Woods has, arguably the most recognizable name in sports. In addition to his golf prominence he has multiple product endorsements which have been lucrative beyond most of our wildest dreams. Most dream of a possessing a million dollars, while [...]

This year (2009) marks the 150th anniversary of the establishment of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary located in Louisville, KY. The seminary has enjoyed a long and unique history in the face of a rapidly and radically changing world. It’s mission today is hardly different from the original mission of training persons for ministry by [...]

This year (2009) marks the 150th anniversary of the publishing of Charles Darwin’s revolutionary book Origin of Species. Darwin (1801-1882) believed life originated and was sustained through a process called “natural selection.” The scientific community largely accepted his theories in his lifetime, but the general populace would not be so quickly and easily convinced.

Can you believe it, Sesame Street turned 40 last week! I was one of the millions of kids who often spent my mornings watching the colorful characters engaging in banter, projecting moral and life lessons, and generally trying to teach kids how to make the world a better place. When I was watching Sesame Street [...]