As I begin my testimony, let me offer a few observations that will allow for a substantive and fruitful discussion on the proposed topic of this hearing, "Walls and Waivers: Expedited Construction of the Southern Border Wall and Collateral Impacts to...
One of the themes of human experience that emerges when we enter spring is that of transformation. The seasons, as they come and go, speak to us of this mystery of transformation. As we move from winter to spring, spring to summer, summer to fall, we...
2 Timothy 2:1-3 (NASB95) 1 You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. ... 3 Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.Philemon 1:1-2 (NIV) 1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus ... To Philemon our dear friend...
Once upon a time, the animals on a certain farm decided to drive out the farmer who was their master, so that they could take over the farm and run it for themselves. Now, they thought, they would govern the affairs of the farm. No longer would they be...
The legal information resource offers some interesting mortality statistics for the United States. Of the 2,400,000-plus Americans who die each year, over 45,000 are killed in transport accidents. The number of homicides, poisonings, and drunken...
Have you ever wondered how to turn a bad day into a good one? Have you ever asked the question, "If God is all good, and if everything is good, how can we turn what appears from our human mind and our human eyes like disaster into absolute good? How can...
Once upon a time there was an accountant. He managed vast sums of money for enormous corporations. One day, he devised a brilliant plan to skim 1% off the top of every company's profit.His family had outgrown their house, his car was a lemon and needed...
What the Bible says about Life- part 2We live our lives like we are in a rat race. We get so hurried that we overlook major details, all the while thinking that we are advancing because we look "busy." Really we are just too busy! The bible says..."12...
Let's pick up our study in Revelation 7:13-17, "And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? And whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they, which came...
Pope Benedict XVI will soon make his first Apostolic Visit to the United States. The last papal visit to our country was by Pope John Paul II in 1999. Benedict will be here April 15-20. Even though the successor of Peter will not be able to tour the whole...