The year under consideration is 1972, and the day is the very first day of that year, New Year's Day. It was a day that the college football picture would be completely colored in and we would know who was number one and who was number two and so on. It was a day when many men, and some women, would be comfortably settled in their favorite chairs to watch football games all day long. The 1971 football season, as many others, had been a great one for Alabama. They were undefea

For the past few days I have been in the hospital undergoing tests and procedures. I have not been able to focus on writing an article so there will be no blog this week. Also I am making the decision not to publish an article during the month of December. Look for my next blog on the first Monday of January. I will be fine. I hope you will be as well. I’ll leave you with some beautiful mountain scenery.

In Colossians 2 Paul begins a section on baptism by mentioning circumcision. He makes a puzzling reference to a circumcision not made with hands. This is curious because by definition circumcision is something done "with hands," in particular, the cutting off and removal of a section of skin from a male human. How, especially in the first century AD, could anyone accomplish this without hands? What is Paul talking about? In Ephesians 2 Paul also mentions circumcision in a ver

“Whatever you want men to do to you do you also to them, “ Matt. 7:12. These words of Jesus are known as the Golden Rule of Christianity. “Blessed are the peacemakers,” Matt. 5:9 is another statement of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount. Paul instructed Christians, in Rom. 12:17-19, “Repay no one evil for evil . . . If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath.” Christians ar