Tag Archives: Commitment

Keeping Our Hand on the Plow

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Earlier this year, a commentator on a morning TV sports talk show suggested it was time for a veteran NFL quarterback to test the free agent market. Assessing the strains of the player’s relationship with his current team, the commentator said, “It’s like a marriage.  It’s run its course.”  That seems an apt summary of our culture’s half-hearted commitment to… Read more »

Amen

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America’s Declaration of Independence was sent to King George III of England in 1776.  There were 56 signatures on the document, representing all 13 original British colonies.  Edward Rutledge, at age 26, was the youngest signer.  Benjamin Franklin, still humming along at age 70, was the oldest.  John Witherspoon, a Presbyterian pastor from New Jersey, was the only clergyman.  Two… Read more »