While doing missionary work in Uruguay, South America, my companion and I met a young man on the streets of Montevideo who expressed interest in our message. He gave us an address and suggested that we meet him there at a specified time the next day.
At the appointed hour, we descended from an old, rickety city bus and stared up at the address we had been given—it was posted in bold numbers at the entrance to Montevideo’s municipal cemetery!
SUPER BOWL 51 WAS THE MOST EXCITING FOOTBALL GAME I’ve ever seen. As an Atlanta Falcons fan, it was wonderful to know that my California friend was going to send me a gift card after the game was over—as he has done for many years—since he has a knack for always picking the losing team, which, of course, was going to be the New England Patriots.
INSPIRED BY THE WOMEN’S MARCH IN WASHINGTON, I, too, wanted to do something to support human rights.
I marched at the Texas State Capital last Saturday with three of my friends from our church and about 5,000 others on behalf of little women, those pre-born Americans who are aborted by their mothers, along with pre-born men, and people of all colors, in the thousands, every day.
The Texas Rally for Life was the first time I participated in a march, and I’m glad I did.
I wanted to show my su ...
The “town” of Cornudas, Texas, was little more than a wide spot on Highway 54 between El Paso and Carlsbad, New Mexico. It consisted of two or three abandoned gasoline pumps, a motel, which also appeared to be abandoned, and a rustic little country restaurant operated by what I surmised to be the only family to reside in that isolated desert landscape.
The restaurant was the gathering place for local ranchers, Border Patrol agents, State Troopers, hunters and an occasional trucker or touris ...
THE PRO-LGBTQ JOURNAL, THE ADVOCATE, understood how significant it was that President Trump’s Inauguration set a prayer record. This is what they wrote: “Donald Trump’s inauguration featured a record number of prayers — three invocations (opening prayers) and three benedictions (closing prayers), several from anti-LGBT clergy members and some notably sectarian in what is usually a nonsectarian event.
In 1976 America celebrated two hundred years as an independent nation. In that same year I served on a church council in El Paso that oversaw many of the activities of a dozen or so congregations of my church. I was given the assignment of coordinating the church’s participation in El Paso’s Bicentennial celebrations.
SOMETHING WAS MISSING. I knew right away what it was when I attended my first Johnson City Council meeting. It was a radical idea....
As a pastor in this town, it’s my responsibility to do good, speak often of Christ and represent him the best I can. In this current political climate, the mention of God in the public square is almost a thing of the past, what with the increasing secularization of our culture.
Shortly after I arrived in Texas to teach, the Texas Education Agency informed me that I lacked a required course in Educational Psychology. I signed up for a class that was being offered by a state university at nearby Fort Bliss.
The first class had barely begun when, in response to a question by the instructor, one of the students said, “The Good Book says spare the rod and spoil the child.” The instructor, who held a Ph.D.
A few years ago I heard about a very unique way to deal with telemarketing calls, and it came from an unknown comedian who was making a point of how to get these people off our backs. He said that when a sales person calls, he tells them about Jesus so they won’t call back again.
In 1957 Mexico was in the midst of an unprecedented drought. People were being forced to flee their unproductive farms to seek almost non-existent jobs in the towns and cities. At the same time, membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) was increasing dramatically. Meetinghouses were in short supply and, in most places in Mexico, members met in rented halls—most of which were woefully inadequate with bare light bulbs hanging from ceilings, peeling paint, uncomfortabl ...
