He loved scaring me. I had a buddy of mine who thought it was hillarious to sneak up behind me and yell as loud as he could. Of course, I'd…
One of my favorite words is "purpose." The reason for this is because I'm convinced that it is a sense of purpose that enables a person to endure the hard…
Tuesday, Make a Gift That Share Eternity!
"Hey Father, For what it's worth I just want to thank you. Your Orthodox bootcamp series on youtube really helped me get started on…
"Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance." Virgil
Most of us know someone in our lives that just seems to be able to stay with a challenge until it is…
As a boy, I loved the old Popeye the Sailorman cartoons. Every afternoon, we'd come home from school and my grandmother would let us watch the Popeye Club on channel…
If you've hung around these parts for a while, you know already what I'm going to say: Spiritual maturity is a particular emphasis for me. And the reason for that…
"What you need is an attitude of gratitude." The trainer was teaching us new salesmen how to keep positive in the face of rejection. You see, it's being told "no"…
"He just doesn't get it." Two of my friends were talking about me and they didn't know I could hear them. They were right. I didn't get what they were…
The transformation in our world from a time when slavery was a "peculiar institution" and a time when the notion of "purchasing" a human being is unthinkable is nothing short…
I'm not a big, outdoorsy, guy. So, camping out was never something I really enjoyed, except for this one time. Me and my best friend, Mark, had a great "fort"…