ONE OF THE MOST-VIEWED video clips out there is this one of little Abby reciting Psalm 23. I’m planning a trip soon to see four of my grandchildren—and Abby here has nothing on any of mine! But I’m reminded again that only God could create children to be so irresistible and innocent. The review of [...]
Archive for August, 2007
25 Aug
*Asterisks and Whitewash
SOMETIME UP AHEAD, I’LL BE in the market for a new computer. So when Dell and HP and others put their big ads in USA Today or on the Net, I keep an eye on specs and pricing.
Often as not, you see a photo of a computer with keyboard, mouse, and a widescreen [...]
24 Aug
Me and My TV
AS I REMEMBER THE STORY I heard a preacher tell, he and his family decided to get rid of the TV. They didn’t actually get rid of it, though…just stashed it in the garage.
Pretty soon, along came a presidential inauguration or a major world disaster—and they decided to bring it back in just to watch [...]
18 Aug
WWJD
AMONG THE BOOKS I READ not long after college and seminary was the classic Christian novel by Charles Sheldon (1857–1946)—entitled In His Steps. I remember being deeply challenged by its message.
Sheldon’s 1896 book grew out of a series of sermons he preached in his Congregationalist church in Topeka, Kansas.
In his novel, Sheldon begins with [...]
8 Aug
Arrest That Calendar for Speeding!
ALL OF US ON THE EDITORIAL staff of Insight magazine abandoned our desks and crowded around a radio somebody had. August 8, 1974. President Richard M. Nixon—only a few miles from where we worked—was resigning his office.
History in the making.
Can somebody please tell me how in thunder it’s been exactly 33 years since that day? [...]
8 Aug
The View From Six Miles Up
BEEN AWAY FOR A FEW DAYS to a convention, so my posting here has been on a brief hiatus.
The title of this blog—“Right End of the Telescope”—reflects an interest in seeing life, this world, and past-present-future as God perhaps sees it all.
With that in mind, on those occasions when I’m tooling along at 500 miles [...]
