WHAT IN THE WORLD? Again this week, as I was crossing the channels on our living room television, I came upon a “How to do It” program dealing with parenting. Leaving it on for about two minutes, this is what I saw. The scene looked in upon a middle-class home in the childrens bedroom area. [...]

The National aviation and Space Administration (NASA) announce this week that by the year 2018 we will have a permanent space camp on the moon. To start with they are projecting 25 billion dollars in expense. The camp is to be built at the moons south pole “where there is plenty of sun for power” [...]

It is amazing that such scant attention is being paid to the cost of the war in Iraq at present. In terms of money the costs have now risen above the total cost of the Vietnam War. Todays American babies and toddlers will be paying this bill for many years to come. But, even more [...]

Friday a little before noon, the sports world, even the world at large, was stunned by the sudden death of football legend, Coach Bo Schembechler. Mr. Schembechler was taping an interview at a Detroit television station when he collapsed and was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. Coach Schembechler left behind [...]

WHAT IN THE WORLD? October was a terrible month for American troops in Iraq. 105 of our precious young men and women were killed in the war there. During the Vietnam War Dover Air Force base in Delaware, was used as the reception point for the bodies of our soldiers and marines killed in action. [...]

Those were almost my exact words this past Monday morning. “What in the world?” We were making our way to the Grand Rapids area for the Michigan Association of Regular Baptist Churches Annual Conference. ‘About thirty-five miles short of our destination on U.S. route 131, suddenly the steering on our Buick stiffened in my hands. [...]

WHAT IN THE WORLD? This week our son-in-law, Rev. Jim Evans, was hurrying down the interstate highway in Tennessee, delivering a large new crane truck to its destination. He came upon another, just like his, stopped by the side of the road. Jim quickly cell phoned his boss. “Do we have another of our trucks [...]

WHAT IN THE WORLD? I was a schoolboy during World War II. Half way through the second grade, I remember sitting in front of our huge old radio that presided over our humble depression — era living room. Announcements had begun flying in the airways. The Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. My young mind could [...]

WHAT IN THE WORLD? Recently, Pope Benedict XVI of the Roman catholic Church was delivering a theological lecture when he mentioned a medieval figure who had noted that Islam was founded on and led in violence by its founder Muhammad. It took only a few days for news reports of the pontiff’s words to reach [...]

WHAT IN THE WORLD? A church in California has been attacked by IRS and is threatened with loss of its tax-exempt status. It seems the pastor made a few derogative remarks about George Bush. The church is outspokenly liberal in its theological views. Several conservative churches have come to the defense of this far-left leaning [...]