Karl Franklin5 days agoA NEW YEAR’S BLESSINGRecently our pastor offered a New Year’s blessing for our church and homes. It was a prayer that included health, purity, strength of...
Karl FranklinJan 18DELIGHTFUL DILEMMASA dilemma suggests that a person must make a difficult choice between two or more alternatives and that often the choices are...
Karl FranklinJan 10DISAGREEING--IN LOVEStanley E. Jones wrote a book about Mahatma Gandhi called Gandhi: portrait of a friend (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1948). Jones began his...
Karl FranklinJan 3WARTS AND ALLJoice loved me, “warts and all,” that is, despite defects and without (for the most part) reservation. Warts are those “small, granny...
Karl FranklinDec 29, 2022Unusual KindnessOnce safely on shore, we [Luke, Paul and those shipwrecked] found out that the island was called Malta. 2 The islanders showed us unusual...