Do The Right Thing

By Marty Norman 

Recently I saw on TV that Governor Mike Huckabee has written a new book titled “Do The Right Thing”.  I haven’t read it yet but I sure like the title.  As best I can tell it pretty much says it all.

“Do the right thing” has always been part of my own personal philosophy. Even as a young girl my father always told me to “do the right thing”.  That was when he was still alive, and I was lucky to have him help guide and mentor me in exactly what the right thing was.  Whenever I got confused I could go and ask, and trust that he knew best.
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The Importance of Obedience

By Rhonda Clark 

Obedience is a rebellious word. It’s a word we all love to hate. Its demanding requirements can wreak havoc on the family unit. Couples divorce because of it, and children become defiant and unreasonable. The family is splintered into multiple factions all because of obedience, or lack thereof. This is not how God intended obedience to be perceived.
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Two Luke

By Jane Thornton 

I was on a mission. With a scrapbook assignment and a deadline, I had no time for nostalgia or reminiscence. But when I flipped a page, both swamped me.
            
My dad was a marine. Just that label encompasses so many of his strongest images:  sternness, authority, integrity, high expectations. Throw in a little temper, and sometimes those severe impressions overwhelm the memories of light-hearted teasing and laughter which were also sprinkled throughout my childhood.
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Refreshing Our Perspective on Prayer

By Sarah Onderdonk  

desensitize vb:  to make insensitive or non-reactive to a sensitizing agent (1)  
Familiarity with things can desensitize us.  I used to be fearful of the highway commute from my suburban Texas home to downtown Dallas where I attend seminary. You could shoot a Dirty Harry movie on stretches of Dallas roadway and years spent cruising around lazy-river-like suburban roads with the kids had not prepared me for a 75-mile round trip alongside commuters who drive like they're going after blinking Pac Man fruit.  After, ahem, a number of years now spent in slow pursuit of my degree, the fangs of the highway commute have sanded down a bit. Today, it's just a long drive in a car and, to be honest, some days it might seem like I'm going after the fruit. You see, I've been desensitized to the fear because it is now familiar to me.

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Do Not Worry

By Kristy Hullett  

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear…who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?  Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”  Matthew 6:25, 27, 33-34
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