by Immanuel | May 13, 2024 | Immanuel Beacon
“Kids Say the Darndest Things” was a TV show originally hosted by Art Linkletter in the late 1950’s and then reprised by Bill Cosby. The show featured the wisdom that came out when children opened theirmouths. Here are two gems:“I wish our family could stop...
by Immanuel | May 6, 2024 | Immanuel Beacon
It appeared in the late 1970’s and early 80’s. It was a TV series dedicated to a search for things mysterious, puzzling or missing. It rarely solved the mysteries; it just asked the questions. There is also a theme of “searching” woven throughout the pages of...
by Immanuel | Apr 29, 2024 | Immanuel Beacon
As time goes by (sometimes creeping by and often flying at break-neck speed), words evolve. What a word meant when I was young means something completely different now. It seems like just a few years ago when a person asked for “tea” it usually was met with “sweet or...
by Immanuel | Apr 22, 2024 | Immanuel Beacon
We are directionally challenged. Not just because GPS does the work for us. We arechallenged with the concept of in and out. Here is the principle: “What we get OUT of something is in direct correlation to what we put IN.” We say, “I have one of those bicycles, but it...
by Immanuel | Apr 15, 2024 | Immanuel Beacon
Some of the great sports rivalries of the past two generations: Duke vs North Carolina, Ravens vs Steelers, Cardinals vs Cubs, Orioles vs Yankees, Lakers vs Celtics. Other, PC vs Mac, Apple vs Android, Coke vs Pepsi and Republican vs Democrat. When kept in...
by Immanuel | Apr 8, 2024 | Immanuel Beacon
The 4th line of the Men’s Alliance Creed: “I am not too proud to ask for help.” Easy to say, hard to do, especially when it comes to personal struggles. We don’t like to admit to struggles of any kind, because it might pop that social media persona we have carefully...
by Immanuel | Apr 1, 2024 | Immanuel Beacon
Today we celebrate the two greatest of all time. No, it is not Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Jack Nicklaus, or Babe Ruth. The two greatest we are celebrating are a day and a person. The day is known as Easter or Resurrection Day. The person is Jesus of Nazareth. He was...
by Immanuel | Mar 25, 2024 | Immanuel Beacon
Depending upon which historian you cite, the number of people in Jerusalem the year Jesus was crucified is estimated from hundreds of thousands to over a million. I wonder if I was one of those faces in the crowd, how would I have responded to all that transpired in...
by gdrasal | Mar 18, 2024 | Immanuel Beacon
At the time, Jesus was hungry. The day before, He was angry. In that moment, was He hangry? Did He need a Snickers bar; after all you aren’t you when you’re hungry. The answer is an emphatic NO. So, the question still hangs in the air and must be asked. Why did Jesus...
by gdrasal | Mar 12, 2024 | Immanuel Beacon
Useless arguments…Toilet paper: over the top or from the bottom? Toilet seat: up or down? Toothpaste tube: squeezed or rolled? Greatest anything of all time? Jesus’s disciples, at the worst timespossible, argued over whom among them was and would be the greatest. This...
