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By Michael J. Brooks I was in what we used to call junior high when we visited my dad’s brothers in Indiana. One day my cousins asked me if I wanted some soda pop. I told them I’d always heard of this but never had any and would love to try it out. To my surprise, they brought me a can of what in Alabama we called “coke”—our generic descriptor of anything fizzy and caffeinated. I learned that words can be different north of the Mason-Dixon line. South of the Mason-Dixon we have Jeff Foxworthy to thank for codifying many of our maxims. He writes that we don’t push a shopping cart b...

And I was in hot water. I’d been working as a salad girl and backup cook at a motel restaurant in my hometown of Sidney. I’d accidentally cooked the boss a very rare hamburger for lunch and a burnt one for supper. He wasn’t happy and neither was Joyce, the head cook. My job was on the line and I was scared. Honestly, I’d tried to do my best. I was a teenager back then and didn’t realize when I took the job that I’d actually be making salads. I thought I’d just set them on a table and help set up the salad bar like I’d done at my job in the college cafet...

1 Timothy is the first of the three “pastoral” epistles—as they are called—which also include 2 Timothy and Titus. The books of Timothy were written by Paul to his disciple, Timothy—his son in the faith who had ministered with Paul in Berea (Acts 17:4), Athens (Acts 17:15), and Corinth (Acts 18:5; 2 Corinthians 1:19). Timothy also went with Paul to Jerusalem (Acts 20:4). In 1 Timothy, Paul lays out the how’s and why’s of godly leadership within the church. Imprisoned in Rome, Paul realized his end was near, and he was, in effect, passing along the responsibility of ministry to T...

Our lives seem to have a lot of that this year. If you are like me and like to plan ahead, this has probably been a hard year for you too. I have given up trying to plan things too far in advance, because it seems that I just have to cancel or change those plans. Wikipedia says that “uncertainty refers to situations involving imperfect or unknown information. It arises in any number of fields, including insurance, philosophy, physics, statistics, economics, finance, psychology, sociology, engineering, meteorology and ecology.” There are many things that can be uncertain in our lives...