Glad Tidings of Good Things (July 28, 2016)
“He Is Sleeping, Mr. President”
John Kenneth Galbraith, in his autobiography, A Life in Our Times, illustrates the devotion of Emily Gloria Wilson, his family’s housekeeper:
It had been a wearying day, and I asked Emily...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (June 18, 2018)
Pushing Past Failure
Sparky didn’t have much going for him. He failed every subject in the eighth grade, and in high school, he flunked Latin, algebra, English, and physics. He made the golf team but...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (June 16, 2016)
Fishing from the Asphalt
Herb Miller, in his book Fishing on the Asphalt*, writes that the average church member has
listened to 6,000 sermons,
heard 8,000 prayers,
sung 20,000 hymns over and over,
and asked zero...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (August 18, 2016)
Dad’s Key
In a moment of teenage carelessness, a 16-year-old girl wrecked her mother’s car.
She was uninjured, so she called home to tell her parents, fully expecting an angry reaction. Instead, her father asked only...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (April 21, 2016)
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Glad Tidings of Good Things (June 7, 2018)
A Brick in the Wall
You may have heard the expression: “He was a brick!” Few know the origin and significance of that expression. The term implies all that is brave and loyal.
Plutarch, in writing...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (September 22, 2016)
Personal Prayer List
Perhaps the most neglected of God’s gifts is the use prayer as we should, based on God’s word (1 Thessalonians 5:17). I have recently made study of prayer and how it was...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (September 7, 2018)
Avoid Coverups
Centuries before the time of Christ, near the Greek city of Sparta, a young boy saw his teacher approaching on the path ahead. Fear gripped him.
At the age of seven, the boy had...
Glad Tidings of Good Things (October 4, 2018)
He Didn’t Know Who He Was
Willie Loman is the name of the principal character in Arthur Miller’s famous play, Death of a Salesman.
Willie Loman’s ambition in life was to be a super-salesman and, at...