My father, Frank Kovacic, passed away at the age of 82 in 2007. “Recently, when my mother moved from their house to a senior apartment, we came across my father’s small memo book from college days and a plain composition book. The books were found at his desk where he spent about 45 minutes daily. […]
MONDAY Reading for Today: Luke 18:18-30 2 Timothy 4 Proverbs 13:13-25 Nehemiah 11 Luke 18:18-30 What’s your bottom line? What could Jesus ask you to do that would cause you to turn away from him in sorrow? Sometimes in reading this story we mistakenly conclude that riches were the problem. They were not. The young […]
Our oldest son had a T-shirt that read, “There are two things you can be sure of: 1) There is a God. 2) You are not him.” The Colossians needed an 18-wheeler full of those T-shirts. After Epaphras had planted the church in Colossae (1:7) the church experienced a heresy that threatened to undo the […]
Using white marble, in the year 1173 builders began constructing the bell tower we know as Italy’s famous Leaning Tower of Pisa. The tower was supposed to stand 185 feet high, about one-third the height of the Washington Monument, but the soft subsoil on which it was built caused one side of the structure to […]
Use one or both of these questions to introduce the lesson: 1. Consider the words, “Who do you think you are.” Do they make up a question or an exclamation? Under what circumstances could they be one or the other? 2. Nineteenth-century poet William Ernest Henley ended his classic poem “Invictus” with these often-quoted words: […]
