Antiseptic
No one likes cleaning out a wound with antiseptic. It stings. Little kids learn pretty quickly that they don't love it when grown-ups want to…
JTB
There's an important character in the Bible called John the Baptist. He's not "the Baptist" because be belonged to any Baptist denomination or church. He…
Mirrors
"Don't imagine that I've been selected to go...because I'm anyone in particular. One never can see, or not till long afterwards, why any one was…
Listen, and speak.
"If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the…
On jargon
"Jargon makes the patient feel stupid." This was a quote from one of our Cedarville nursing professors that actually made it onto the back of…
Smart sledge?
My father-in-law gave me a vintage sledgehammer. It's super heavy. It's got an old hickory handle that's been treated with boiled linseed oil. It feels…
Beware that losing feeling
None of us likes to lose. Some of us really hate it. We hate it so much that we are tempted to lie or cheat,…
They’ll surprise you
John Hannah, my Church History prof at Dallas Seminary used to say that you'll find wisdom and folly in surprising places. The wisest people you…