Category: Luann’s Thoughts
Not Your Body
I recently saw a picture of a teen-age girl holding a protest sign that said, “My body is only mine.” The claim of women who want to abort babies has been, “It’s my body…Keep the government away from my body…It’s my decision.” Consider this concept from a Christian’s point of view. Is it really my…
Endings Bring Beginnings
Our lives are filled with endings. As mothers, the endings in our children’s lives make us melancholy: weaning is an end to a unique bond, potty training is an end to “baby hood,” the onset of puberty marks the end of the innocence of childhood and high school graduation nominally ends their dependence on us. …
Every Time I See It
Every morning, going to work, I pass a very large cemetery in Atlanta. There on the sloping hill sit hundreds of tombstones, all giving honor to the person who was laid to rest there. I think about all of these people. Who were they, what were their lives like? I know that some were celebrities,…
Self-Control
In the bible, self-control is always presented and praised as righteous and a desired trait. Its absence is listed among the unrighteous traits of men in the “last days” (2 Tim. 3:1,3). In 2 Peter 1:6, Peter admonishes us to add self-control to knowledge. The Greek word is egkrateia1 which comes from egkrates, and it…