Appreciate What You Don’t Deserve

I’m on vacation at the beach this week. Today started with waking up at 10AM, then reading on the beach, swimming, biking with my wife, and finally an evening at a nice restaurant. Needless to say, I feel refreshed. On our way down to the white sands of the panhandle...

Research Shows Religion Benefits Children

Proverbs 22:6 Teach a youth about the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Go figure. Church is good for kids. A recent study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Educational Statistics (or NCES for short)...

The Church and the Purple Pen

When I was in the corporate world, my boss would sometimes jokingly use a purple pen to review my work. He was poking fun at the fact that some school systems think red might be too offensive a color with which to grade. Like I mentioned in my last post, the purple...