My recent near bout with death has, I suppose, made me much more contemplative of essential issues of life. Leprosy set in first, I think, followed by rickets, diphtheria, yellow fever, Ebola, the black plague, tuberculosis and malaria.
Where does a person even begin when writing a column like this?
The one famous phrase in that lengthier quotation, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely," is reasonably well known.
Most pastors have hobbies, hobbies that I myself am simply not mentally and emotionally cut out for.
The golf cart would beep, but it would not move. It was not on a green somewhere, mind you, but in our church fellowship hall where it normally is. We use it to shuttle people from the parking lot to the church during special events and even just on normal days for some of our seasoned citizens. But last week, when I went to move it, beeping, but no moving.
To begin with, please allow me to thank all of you who participated in the Bible quiz from two weeks ago.
I rarely use this weekly column to answer editorials or other columns; I much prefer to be proactive rather than reactive. However, on certain rare occasions, something comes along that warrants being answered since it speaks to large multiple issues all at once.
Acts 20:35 says, "I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive."
Several times through the years, I have been asked, "What books do you recommend that I read?" And the question is one that makes me happy since it means that someone already understands how important it is to read.
If you, perchance, do not know much about God, then please allow me to help you by telling you something you really should know: God is always way, way ahead of the curve.
