Time is a faithful servant but a fearsome master. Dr. Seuss illustrates this in his delightful book, Oh, The Places You Go. It’s a story about life’s journey, which doesn’t always take you to the places you want to go—like “The Waiting Place,” where people are Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for [...]
You can judge the health of a civilization by the culture it creates and consumes. At the height of Roman corruption the Empire created and consumed a culture a death and decadence. The bloodlust of the games and the bodily lusts of sexual deviancy led Rome down the rutted road of long decline and prolonged [...]
A great man died this week. Chances are you’ve never heard his name and wouldn’t recognize his picture. But his death has affected me deeply. He was my teacher and mentor. And outside of my family, he probably exerted more influence in my life than any other. He had a wonderful sense of humor. “Men [...]
Who is greater, Michelangelo or the teacher who taught him? This was an illustration my teacher and mentor used in his final chapel message to the students at Dallas Theological Seminary. For anyone who studied under Dr. Howard G. Hendricks, lovingly known as “Prof,” the answer to the question was simple: the student who surpassed [...]
George Washington was an extraordinary man. Perhaps none, certainly few, in American history have exhibited such ambitious personal humility and patriotic spirit as Washington. He is rightly deemed the “Father of his country,” leading American forces to victory and independence over Great Britain, shepherding the Constitution through a contentious convention in the summer of 1787, [...]
Through the Declaration of Independence of 1776, the Constitution of 1787, and the Bill of Rights of 1791, the Founding Fathers did what had never been done in the history of humanity: they broke from the mother country and created a means for lasting liberty. In short, our brave forefathers won liberty with arms and [...]
There’s a sickness in the soul of America. So says Kurt Cameron, of 1980s “Family Matters” fame, in his new movie Monumental. Citing examples of cultural and political sickness—increases of divorce, teen pregnancy, crime, taxes, and national debt—Cameron asks what we can do to heal our nation. The answer he discovered is found in history—particularly [...]
Happy New Year! As has become an annual tradition—a literary resolution so to speak—here is my resolution for 2012: to fix my mind and actions on that which is excellent and praiseworthy. Specifically, to think the thoughts and practice the passions of Paul in Philippians 4:8. Truthfulness: to seeks that which is honest, reliable, and [...]
What does it take to raise an American? I don’t simply mean teaching a child born in the United States not to become homegrown terrorists. I mean a real American—one who, in the words of William Damon, will demonstrate “responsible citizenship in a free society.” [1] What does it take to raise that child? If [...]
True friendship is one of life’s rare rewards. It might well be said that a man with one true friend is a prosperous man; a man with two true friends is a wealthy man; and a man with three true friends is an affluent man. So valuable was friendship to C. S. Lewis he wrote [...]
