Sometimes a Little Humble Pie is Good for your Soul.....Wait for it
This is just the time of year when people are glued to the television watching the playoffs in the NFL. Years ago, Don Shula was the coach of the Miami Dolphins and took his team to a perfect season and won the Superbowl. He decided to get away from the media and the newspaper and take his wife...
WHAT KIND OF TATER WILL YOU BE IN 2019?
We just came through Christmas Season. At Christmas dinner we have all sorts of wonderful foods. We have mashed potatoes, we have sweet potato casserole, and it got me to thinking there are all sorts of tater people in this world. For example, there are people who just sit around...
DON'T MISS CHRISTMAS
There’s a legend in the middle east about a shepherd, one of the original shepherds. And every Christmas his grandchildren would gather around the fire with him and all the family. The grandchildren would say, “Tell us again, Grandpa, tell us again about that first...
A GRUMPY MINISTER ON CHRISTMAS DAY
In the year 2005, our family was going to drive to Florida on Christmas Day, at least part of the way. And so I said to the girls and my wife, I said, “Think of someplace fun you want to have Christmas dinner, someplace special.” About 5:30 that evening we started getting...
A CALM WHEN THINGS GET CRAZY!
A while back at a mall during Christmastime, there was a woman who had been shopping all day. She’d heard over the speaker that there was a sale going on in the linen department, so she ran and grabbed a tablecloth that she wanted to buy. When she grabbed it, another...
BLOWIN' KISSES
Years ago, there was a family getting ready for Christmas; wrapping up all of their Christmas presents. They had a 3-year-old little girl who was so excited about Christmas coming, so she wanted to give her father something. So, she went and got the expensive, gold wrapping paper that was...