Walking The Walk

Are you one of those people that goes to church, but is just too busy to read the Bible during the week.  You've got a job.  Kids.  Family.  Booster club.  Grocery shopping.  Always a long, long to-do list, and no time for recreational reading. Are you sure you don't have time?  Let me share something with you I learned this week: The average American watches 4 hours of television every day.  There's an average of 12 minutes per hour of commercials on television.  That's 48 minutes a day the average American spends watching TV commercials! Now lets look at the Holy Bible. It takes about 19 hours to read the New Testament, and about 52 hours to read the Old Testament.  So you could read the entire Holy Bible in about 71 hours.   In the time you spend learning which car insurance is the cheapest and which underwear has the most comfortable waistband, you could read the entire New Testament in just three weeks--just picking it up ...

"There are always miracles in the world, even when all seems hopeless. And when there are no miracles, you can make them happen. With a simple act of kindness, you can save another person from despair, and that might just save their life. And this is the greatest miracle of all."   ~Eddie Jaku, Auschwitz survivor I read a truly remarkable book this week, "The Happiest Man On Earth" by Eddie Jaku.  Eddie turned a hundred years old in 2020, and considers himself the happiest man on Earth . . . he is also a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.   I've read a lot about that period of history over the years being a student of history, and I've read a lot about the Nazi genocide.  A few years ago, my friend Greg Knott and I spent an afternoon at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.  It is without a doubt an experience I will never forget--it was a place where the history I'd read in books and the history of reality collided in a startling way....