An author named Earnest Becker won a Nobel Prize for literature in 1973 for a book he wrote entitled “The Denial of Death.” I read this book as an undergraduate student at Vanderbilt University in 1978, and I should say that it had a strong influence over my pre-salvation thinking. Becker, an atheist, sees man…
Yesterday our church family, along with hundreds more, celebrated the life of John Sliwinski. A husband, father, respected Alaskan Aviator, and most importantly a born-again believer. Being both a participant and observer I was moved by several observations. First was the multitude of people that came, some even from out of the state, to pay…
The inability to wait, or to be patient, has its roots in “self-worship”. I know none of us believe we worship ourselves, but when we want something, we usually want it now, mostly because, we just want it now. If we don’t get what we want, especially concerning our relationships with others, we tend to…
I love science; I really do! Having taken a plethora of university courses within the science discipline, I have many fond memories: battling through physics experiments, being in total awe while working with human cadavers in anatomy lab, and chemistry study sessions with my then girlfriend Lana, now my wife of 34 years. Yes good…
