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I had a philosophy professor in college once say, “If you can trust a chair, you can trust Jesus.” When we gave him the expected puzzled look, he went on: “Do any of you know who made the chair you are sitting on? Not the company, but the actual man or woman? You have no… Read more
Then Jesus said to the Roman officer, “Go back home. Because you believed, it has happened.” And the young servant was healed that same hour (Matthew 8:13). There is an old comedian named Steven Wright, whom I used to love as a kid. He had one joke about a light switch in his house that didn’t do… Read more
Time for a little pop-culture trivia:Q. “I pity the fool” is a catchphrase spoken by which famous actor?A. If you answered Mt. T, you are correct.Q. Which Mr. T character said those words?A. If you said B.A. Baracus from “The A-Team”—wrong! Contrary to popular belief, B.A. never said, “I pity the fool.” It was another… Read more
When I was in college in Virginia, there was a place nearby called Mountain Lake. At the base of this mountain was a cave where some of my classmates and I would go spelunking. It was a bit adventurous. Pitch black, bats, underground rivers. It was cool. To enter this cave, most people went through… Read more
