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             A little more than 50 years ago Dale Carnegie authored a book that made him a very wealthy man. The title of it is “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” It  has since been published in every major language of the world and has sold multiplied millions of copies. The popularity of the book lies in the fact that it recognized and deals with a very real human need – that is the necessity to relate to other people.           Of course, Dale Carnegie was not the first to […]

          “In the cities the wounded and dying cry out, but God ignores their prayers.”  This cry of Job must be one of the most poignant statements in the Scriptures.  Although the scholars keep telling us this is an anguished cry for help from a man in intense pain, it sounds more like a cry of despair.  After all, this is the same Job who also cried: “I give up, I am tired of living.  Leave me alone.  My life makes no sense.”  But the scholars must be right:  knowing Job, a man of faith, his outburst must have been […]

       Do you remember, from your childhood days, the neighborhood football game when everyone wanted to play quarterback?  Sometimes you’d stand around and argue and take forever getting started.  Usually the way it was     resolved was that the one who owned the ball got to call the plays.  But finally, everyone had to agree to play a different position, otherwise you could not even have a game.        Then, if you stayed with the sport and gave yourself a little time to grow up, you discovered that it can be just as much fun to throw […]

          All of us are familiar with the Ten Commandments. We have heard about them all our lives. Many of us could recite most of them from memory. They are the moral and ethical foundation upon which our society is based. Without them, it would be impossible for people to live together in peace and harmony.  But there is another set of laws that are even more basic than the Ten Commandments. We could call these the “Twin Commandments”.          The first is a quotation from the book Deuteronomy in the Old Testament: […]