by Bill Cook Sooner or later, when the family is all gathered together, the embarrassing stories come out. Mother, bless her heart, may illustrate with a picture or perhaps a funny video. King Solomon’s Family Story Some of the stories that would have come out in Solomon’s family would have seemed tragic. There was the […]
by Bill Cook As we sat in the restaurant with our two young daughters, the mother in the booth across from us told her child, “Hey, see that booth over there, across the way? Go over there and get me that ashtray.” The child was old enough to read and know better, so she answered […]
by Bill Cook “What should we do?” someone recently asked me. “Should we adopt the children we’ve had with us for a year, or send them on to another home and take in more children to foster parent?” You’ve had questions just as tough lobbed at you—right? How do we make such difficult decisions? I […]
by Bill Cook My “hunting trip” had been 20 years in the making. I was on my way to look at a car—not just any car, but an old car that was the same make, model, and year as the first car I had owned. I paid careful attention to landmarks as I traveled. I […]
by Eric A. Shelhart I have a confession to make. I have walked past homeless people on the street and acted like I didn’t see them. I have even lied to a person on the street asking for money, even though I might have had a dollar in my pocket. If we are honest, most […]
