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Out of place

This Sunday was my third consecutive Sunday at Tioga Baptist. I have been there once before, so the total is four visits. Tioga Baptist is starting a new series in its Sunday School, working from Lee Strobel’s The Case for Christ. It’s certainly not the first time I have heard of Strobel’s book, but it is the first time someone Read More


No prophet, no seer

I am a small fellow, weighing perhaps 140 pounds when soaking wet, so my supper tonight was fully adequate: a thin steak, the size of a handspread, four or so slices of bread, and a salad. Not a staggering feast, but along with an apple before starting supper it is a full meal for someone of my stature and occupation. Read More


So. . . do you know where we’re going?

I’m not like some men of cliche. I don’t absolutely refuse to ask for directions. Sometimes I ask for directions even when I am pretty sure I know. Today I needed to take someone to an airport I’d never been to before. This was not planned; that is, I was asked the night before but it wasn’t in the original Read More


Standards

I ought to find myself a sports team and a girlfriend, for then I shall never run out of things to talk about when someone who does not know me feels obligated to talk to me. I had dinner tonight with a fellow employee from out of town and the poor chap spent the entire time trying desperately to come Read More