“No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money (Matthew 6:24 NIV).”

–Jesus

Do you ever allow your thoughts to drift back to the days when life seemed so much simpler? When families dined together, neighbors were actually neighborly, screens were what kept bugs from getting inside the house, and friends were people, not numbers accumulated […]

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them (Genesis 1:27 NIV).

–Moses

Imagine this conversation between two chess players in a hotly contested match:

“Checkmate!”

“Hardly, my friend.”

“But your king’s trapped.”

“That’s no longer my king,” he says, as he uses the piece to take the other’s bishop. “I’m identifying the king as a queen.”

“Say what?”

“Yep. Was a king, now a queen.”

“But you can’t do that. It violates the rules of […]

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

–Benjamin Franklin

Notwithstanding my “expectations bar” being set pretty low for our Washington politicians, a recent interview with a well-known U.S. senator really surprised me. When asked the difference between “equality” and “equity,” this self-acknowledged socialist scratched his balding scalp covered with wild wisps of gray hair, pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose, muttered a few words, and then admitted, “I don’t really know.”

Seriously? This is a man who has […]

“Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.”

–Ulpian (ancient Roman jurist)

At least in the Carolinas, if not the entire nation, folks were recently riveted by the Alex Murdaugh trial. Perhaps not since the OJ Simpson trial has there been any spectacle so closely followed. The jury had barely been seated and Netflix had a series out, documenting the Murdaughs’ morass of mayhem, mishaps, and murder.

I’m sure we all know now of the trial’s outcome […]