By Dan Hamilton When you were a child in Sunday school, do you remember doing fun songs with motions? I recall some of the choruses required the girls to compete against the boys, where one group stood up and shouted out “Hallelujah” and the other “Praise ye the Lord.” Sometimes there were hand motions; with […]
By Dan Hamilton The origins of old sayings are often interesting. If several online sources are correct, the phrase “pass the buck” began with poker games about 150 years ago. Cheating was common in those games. Players made sure that no one person was allowed to be the dealer out of turn, so a knife […]
By Dan Hamilton Superstitions and good-luck charms come in a variety of disguises. We expect those who are outside the church to follow a few crazy superstitions. Don’t be surprised at nonbelievers kissing the dice before they’re rolled or not making a major decision on Friday the 13th. Although we hate to admit it, even […]
By Dan Hamilton Perhaps you grew up in a home where justice was swift and powerful. No matter which parent handled discipline problems in my home as a child, we never had to wait very long for justice to be served. Somehow the authorities in our household could get to the cause of the conflict […]
By Emily Hill Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote some of the most freeing words I’ve ever read when he described what it means for humans to do good in light of the revelation of God in Christ: “The good consists of nothing more than allowing our action to be determined by the knowledge that it is not […]
