Archive for November 2007

Humor columnist Dave Barry writes about a term called “Brain Sludge” coined by scientists to describe the vast collection of odd things the brain chooses to remember, instead of useful information. For example, if you take any group of one hundred average Americans, and sing to them, “Come and listen to a story ’bout a…

The power of a tradition is that it memorializes something considered important or sacred and is a way that ancestors communicate with their descendants. For example, old European and earlier American society gave us many of our most wonderful Christmas traditions. These are the familiar images of baby Jesus in a manger, the three wise…

Our culture reminds me of Mardi Gras, where spectators line up along the street each night, intoxicated by drink and the spirit of the celebration while watching a parade go by. Mardi Gras parades include floats, marching bands, costumes, glitter, lights and strings of beads being tossed from the floats. Each float is a gaudy,…

I am in the middle of revising and editing a bookfor the series Pure Gold Classics (PGC), publishedby Bridge-Logos publishers. The book by Arthur W. Pink is titled The Sovereignty of God and was originally written in 1918. This is the second book in the PGC series I have had the privilege to work on,…

Catskill Mountain Christian Academy (CMCA) is currently in our thirteenth year of high powered, high quality, academically excellent, intellectually stimulating and spiritually uplifting Christian education. Our pre-K through 12th grade students continue to score well above the national average across-the-board on standardized testing including the all-important SATs. CMCA does not position itself as a competitor…

In 2006 an amazing painting by Lawson was donated to CMCC, and it hangs behind the pulpit in our Chapel. It is approximately ten feet long and depicts the scene from Luke 7: 36-50 where the sinful woman washes Jesus’ feet with her tears, wipes them with her hair and anoints them with fragrant oil.…

The Discovery Channel broadcasted a show highlighting the experience of Aron Ralston, the young hiker who severed his own arm to get free from a fallen bolder after being trapped in a Utah canyon for five days. Tom Brokaw conducted an interview with Ralston and did a magnificent job. The story relates to our walk…