• The Calf Path
• Children of Abraham
• Free Books to Students
• Hook's Points

If, when a woman speaks in the assembly, she is usurping the role of man, is a man who sits silently in the assembly usurping the role of the woman?

Your encouragement constrains me to continue this effort even though my lack of physical energy calls for a halt. Many of you assure us that you pray for our ministry and for Lea’s health. Thank you.

I stay inundated with paper work, email, and tasks demanding immediate attention. I appreciate your contacts, questions, and donations, but please forgive me if I fail to respond properly. No doubt, much gets lost in the shuffle, and lack of time limits my response to questions.

This mailout is free for the asking though it is expensive in cost. Others bear that expense. Please let us know if you do not wish to receive it. If you move without giving a new address, we assume that you do not wish to receive it.

Who expects consistency in politics? Bush committed a no-no in seeking the votes of those who reject Catholics and Jews, so McCain turns it to win favor of the Catholics who reject those at Bob Jones University as well as protestants in general, and to gain votes of the Jews who reject Christians, Muslims, and all other religions. We can look forward (?) to eight more months of such logic.

Income tax time! How we hate to pay taxes. But thank God you had income to pay taxes on and with. Our medical bills take a big part of our income, but I am thankful for the medicine and that I am able to pay for them. What a blessing Social Security and Medicare are to Lea and me and millions of others. These all cost, but they also pay in blessings.

How could people be so cruel as to sentence any criminal to death row, you may demand. How dreadful it must be to await execution there.

When you brought a life into this world, you sentenced an infant to death row! Regardless of how long the son or daughter lives, he or she will be facing certain death. Were you cruel and unjust? Does your child live in constant dread?

You may say it is different because the convict knows the date he will die. Not necessarily. He lives in hope of re-trial, reversal of sentence, or pardon.

The person receiving a death sentence this year will outlive most of us octogenarians! Is our time filled with dread, devoid of cheer, cowering before oncoming death? Perhaps, for some that is true. But most approach the day with serene assurance and hope using each day with a sense of purpose even as we lived our lives before. We can still laugh. Peace can be had in the life-long presence of physical death.

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