If 60 is the New 40 How Old is 90?

I remember walking to school one morning in Memphis, Tennessee when I was around 8 years old. I had just come to the realization that I was probably going to be around long enough to see the Millenium in the year 2000. I also remember thinking...

The day the Holy Spirit spoke and took away my fear of death

I’ve always known on a cellular level that there is a God. I had an extremely strong compulsion that caused me to be baptized when I was fourteen years old. I loved God. I was in my early thirties before I finally came to realize that God loved me...

Do people really have internal alarm clocks?

My wife is not an early riser. She had volunteered to man the reception table at a YMCA-sponsored running event in Charlotte. The only problem was that she was told to be there at 5:45 AM on a Saturday morning. Doing the math, she realized that...

I believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that He died for my sins

Abraham believed in God before there was the Bible, current knowledge about DNA and the return of the nation of Israel to their homeland in 1948, after at least three exiles and the Jewish Diaspora. These...

A license number helps police break up a Charlotte area auto-theft ring

Top 10 useful Christian-oriented Internet websites in Charlotte

In writing a regular Christian column focused on Charlotte, North Carolina I have found that a few web sites keep popping up in articles and as a response to information that my readers have asked for. ...

How to survive a riptide or an undertow in the ocean

For all intents and purposes it was the perfect summer for a 16-year old boy. This was a time when everyone went to drive-in movies. The drive-ins were perfect for young couples to get in a little necking...

The Legal Information Institute can help you find out what is being hidden in that small print for free

If you are comparing one company with another or if an attorney who doesn’t have your best interest at heart is snowing you, it would be helpful for you to be able to quickly wade through their sticky...

The Glaser Safety Slug bullet will stop a bad guy and not hit a friend on the other side!

That is why the “Glaser Safety Slug” was invented. The important thing about the Glaser Safety Slug is that it will normally stop the bad guy without endangering anyone beyond him. This blue-nosed bullet isn’t very likely to go through...

Is this the world’s scariest cardinal or is it possibly the world’s smartest?

I just had a meet-up with a crazy cardinal that was about to change my view of what is normal behavior. I was out in my backyard during the hottest part of the summer when a young male cardinal flew over from the neighbor’s pool. He took off...