While none of us likes to get our feathers ruffled, occasionally someone needs to say something to set the record straight. This is especially true when it involves the direction our country is heading – which only leads to a dark rainy night, with no sign, and a bridge out up ahead. What I am talking about is the inordinate amount of excitement for the sports culture in which our nation presently lives. When you pay an assistant college coach $400,000 a year, and he leaves to take a head…

As I am sure you know, human beings are creatures of habit. We just get in the habit of doing certain things and continue to do them until they are acted upon by some outside force. With age, our habits change with certain events in our lives. We get in the habit of going to school when we are young, going to work when we get older, and trying to take it easy when we get old enough to retire. If we form good habits, we will be successful. If…

You know, sometimes fate has a way of taking over in your life when you don’t know enough to do things on your own. Here in my later years, I want to tell you about something that is helping me even as I write this column. There are three books in the Bible that are called “Wisdom Literature.” These books are Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes. All are good, but my favorite is the book of Proverbs, written by King Solomon, son of King David and reported to be the wisest…

If you were in the business of selling success motivation tapes to make a living, you would want to look successful, right? Well, me too. When I got in this business back in 1970, one of the first things I did was go out and buy myself a new Cadillac. In fact, I bought a new one each year for the next three years, and even got the third one paid for. Back in those days you could get a new Cadillac, without all the bells and whistles, for about…

The English cleric, theologian and evangelist John Wesley had a saying that applies to many of us in America. A portion of the saying goes, “Do all the good you can, for as long as you can, in all the ways that you can.” To my way of thinking this is a pretty good slogan to live by.  In this vein I try to serve and help as many people as I can, but occasionally I learn of something that I had never thought about before. This is the fact:…