Wallace Henley is a former pastor, White House, and congressional aide. He served eighteen years as a teaching pastor at Houston's Second Baptist Church. Wallace, the author of more than twenty books, now does conferences on the church and culture, church growth and leadership. He is the founder of Belhaven University's Master of Ministry Leadership Degree.
The aging process should be seen as a positive endeavor rather than a bitter trail of foolishness and aching joints. The poster boys of noble aging are Noah, Abraham, Moses, Paul, and other biblical greats who model the climb for us.
All this reveals that the greatest danger facing a society that distances itself from the doctrine and reality of God’s transcendence is the human mind that does not recognize the nature of God and its accountability to Him.
If grunge is the best you’ve got, wear it and worship in it. In other words, always approach the Lord Yahweh and His Son, Yeshua, and the dynamic Holy Spirit with the best your heart can bring.
That brings us to Joe Biden: Though I very much dislike his policies, I wince but don’t laugh at his gaffes and valiant attempts to gracefully recover his ‘pratfalls.’ I have learned that 80-year-old bodies don’t always synchronize with 80-year-old optical perceptions.
Almost sixty years later the big dome that inspired me is still there, along with some newer buildings. But something is missing. I park my car with ease because there are many empty spaces. There was a time when one had to circle the campus to find a place to leave his or her automobile.
Henry Kissinger, the diplomat who served as foreign policy advisor to both presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, turns 100 on May 27. Admired by some, hated by others, he is still active on the global scene.