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Brain fog and mental stress affects everyone. We are all looking for ways to create more meaningful lives that include less “chaff” to distract us. This is especially important when one is working toward academic achievements such as those offered by NationsUnivesity. Most NU students study and hold down a job, building a family, and…

LIVING WITH CONTENTMENT By Guest Author, Tom Nuckels, Lifeline Chaplaincy Are you living with contentment? Recently, I was speaking with a group of spiritual care volunteers on Zoom. We meet each Wednesday morning for a “virtual coffee.”  One shared how she had decided to stop talking about how bad things are and to begin to…

God’s sovereignty, what does he mean by God of gods if there is only one God? He means exactly that in Deuteronomy (10:17). The special covenant name of God in biblical Hebrew is Yahweh. In English translations, it is spelled LORD, but typically with smaller capitalizations. It can mean “He is” or “I am” depending…

Reengineering the Christian life will not be easy. I worked in the corporate world for some 30 years before transitioning to the vocation of Chaplain. My fundamental skill set began as a “production engineer” in the oil fields. That led to project management and, ultimately, financial analysis. Toward the end, I spent a year serving…

A Christian Response is necessarily different from a worldly response. My friend, Raymond Key, has shared the following article by Scott Sager. It speaks of how Christians might respond to the events of the past few weeks in America. It looks forward to the momentous coming week when a new President is installed.  I am…

Believe and do is not just a catch phrase. In a sermon this past week Mark Abshier of the MacArthur Park Church of Christ in San Antonio, Texas suggested that the Bible doesn’t have a single teaching that does not affect how we should live in life. I think he is on to something. Numerous teachings in…

Nearer My God to Thee: “To be near God is my happiness” was this past year’s theme for one of my friends, Drew Woods of Sugar Land, Texas, where he pastors a large church that has been affected by the COVID-19 virus. Pastor Woods used this theme in his sermons almost every week of 2020.…

Focus on the family: I have observed a lot of families during my first 75 years of life. They have been amazingly diverse, yet also similar. One thing they hold in common is a desire that their children be given the best possible preparation for life. Everyone wants their children to have the opportunity for…

Have you heard the story of Shane Latson? He grew up in Florida. Gordon Dasher was a foster father to Shane Latson and is an uncle to Al Robertson of Duck Commander. Shane attended youth camps sponsored by White’s Ferry Road Church of Christ as a youth. In 1995, when Phil Robertson and the Elders…

I was reminded today of three things that help me maintain balance during times of disruption and crisis, times like today’s COVID-19 pandemic, times like December 7, 1945 (Pearl Harbor), times when we find it hard to agree with or even understand our neighbors. First, God does not practice social distancing. Yes, we have found…