Laymen’s Corner

In the time period between Joshua and Samuel the Prophet, there was no king in Israel. The people did what was right in their own eyes. Since Israel did not drive all the people out of Canaan, they became a thorn in the side of Israel. Israel jumped between the wide road and the narrow road.

Laymen’s Corner

In the time that Judges ruled over the nation of Israel there was a famine in the land of Israel. A Jewish woman named Naomi with her husband and two suns went down to the land of Moab and lived there several years. First Naomi’s husband died and her two sons took wives from the Moab people.

Stranger Than Most

There’s something magical about the number 70 in my husband’s mind. As in 70 degrees. In the spring when the outside temperature hits 70, he starts up his whining about how it’s too hot in the house. Of course he’s wearing jeans, socks and a long sleeve shirt.

Three Rights Make a Left

The last few weeks I have traveled to St Thomas in the Virgin Islands several times…By phone of course.

Stranger Than Most

Most of the people who come to see me have problems with control. Usually they want to control other people. Parents want to improve a child’s behavior; spouses want each other to be more supportive, family members want less fighting in the house.

Three Rights Make a Left

After years of working in Disaster Relief there is one truth at every disaster. No matter how busy you are, often you have to stop what you are doing and listen to a victim’s story.

Laymen’s Corner

Israel’s failures through the book of Judges is listed after the phrase “At that time there was no king (leader) in Israel and everyone did that which was right in their own eyes”. Israel’s promise to follow GOD did not last very long. Without a leader they could not stay faithful.

Stranger Than Most

A key issue in our society is the interplay between personal freedom and public safety. At what point does protecting the community outweigh the rights of the individual? This didn’t used to be a problem because, for a very long time, no one had any rights.

Three Rights Make a Left

I apologize that I have not written my regular column this week as Lori and I are in Floresville to attend the funerals of our dear friends Bryan and Karla Holcombe along with the funerals of their Son, grandkids and pregnant daughter-in-law.

Laymen’s Corner

Much of the land of Canaan had been taken and assigned to the tribes of Israel. Joshua is now old and soon will die. As long as Joshua was leading the Children of Israel were willing to follow, and after Joshua died they followed the Elders who outlived Joshua.