By Danny Minton Idioma, langue, sprache, lingua, glossa. What language do you understand? Spanish? French? German? Italian? Koine Greek? By the way, the word “language” is present for all of them in the first sentence (at least if my search was correct). I’m not fluent in any language and often even struggle to understand what people are trying to say

By Danny Minton I was playing golf one day with some folks, one of whom was not doing very well. You could sense that his anger was just about to reach a limit. As we “made the turn” to play the back nine holes, his score was indicating triple digits by the end of the day. On the twelfth hole,

By Danny Minton Several years ago, there was a movie produced entitled “The Nativity Story”. As you can tell by the title, this is a recounting of the story of the birth of Jesus. There is one scene in particular that has always stood out to me, mainly because I had always looked at the story as an outside observer,

By Danny Minton When I was a senior at Abilene Christian, I worked in the maintenance department parttime. To begin with, I mostly cleaned the air filters in all the buildings on campus and did minor plumbing repairs. I had been in every single dorm room in every dormitory on campus in the late ’60s.  I was given one job

By Danny Minton As I thought back about my past this week, I remember going from Plano to Howe to see my Mamaw (Mother’s mother). I remember the smell of the creosote that soaked the fence posts. We drove with the windows down in those years since many cars did not have air conditioning. Another memory I have is seeing

By Danny Minton Why do men and women quit the ministry?Why do church leaders resign?Why do members change congregations?Why do people, once active, give up? I’m sure we could all come up with our personal list of reasons. Chances are they’d all be different, and they’d all be right in one way or another. However, no matter what our lists

By Danny Minton “I heard what sounded like laughter at first, and then it turned into a terrible scream. They all sounded like beaten dogs.” Emmett Kelly. June 6, 1944, brought hope to war-torn nations that “Operation Overlord” and the storming of Normandy would be the beginning of the end of the war in Europe. The hopes and dreams of

By Danny Minton Mention the name Nobuo Fujita to any group of people, and it’s likely that no one will know who you’re talking about. If they do, they are likely either a WWII history buff or from the Brookings, Oregon, area. Although few outside of Oregon and those who study World War II history know who he was, he

By Danny Minton Chains are a common item. If you walk down the aisle of the hardware store where the chains are located, you will find a wide variety of chains. Depending on their use, the sizes will vary, and the colors may change, but the use remains the same. Chains are made to secure—some secure gates, others doors, and