Like many my age, I began to hear swear words around 6th or 7th grade. It would be cool to cuss in a sentence even if the word didn’t actually fit. Over the next couple of years I incorporated more swearing into my vocabulary part way to fit in and part way to be cool. [...]
Break me from these prison walls
Free me from these chains,
The world around me closing in,
Following all to the end.
What does this life have to offer?
Where do I go for help?
When will I find deliverance?
Who will come for my rescue?
I am dead here – motionless,
I have no hope within.
There is no beat from my heart,
There is [...]
One way to look at sin is like lice. If you have ever had a child come home with lice you know what I mean. It seems the public schools have a lice season every few years and you hear about half empty classrooms and whole families who are dealing with the little pest.
Our daughter [...]