by davidharlenbrooks | Dec 17, 2011 | Essays/Opinions
I used to be afraid of the dark. As a child, I feared to let even a toe hang over the side of my bed at night lest the monsters beneath grab me and pull me under. I didn’t know about nightlights so I laid frozen until I drifted off to sleep. John 1:5 says, “The light...
by davidharlenbrooks | Sep 10, 2011 | Essays/Opinions
“Pray for the U.S.! It’s under attack!” “Yeah, right!” I dismissed the text message from a fellow missionary as a hoax until an alert scrolled across the bottom of the television screen. The events that would become known as 9/11 were underway. The Philippine networks...
by davidharlenbrooks | Apr 24, 2011 | Essays/Opinions
I had a dog for thirteen years when I was growing up. When she made poopoo on the basement floor at night, I didn’t find her waiting at the top of the stairs to be let out the next day. Instead, she would slink away or curl up in a corner of her bed and not...
by davidharlenbrooks | Dec 8, 2010 | Essays/Opinions
Someone goofed! Christmas started on the wrong side of town. King Jesus should have been born in a palace, not a stable with animals butting each other and moldy hay — Hardly the place for a King. “Who being in the very nature God, did not consider equality with God...
by davidharlenbrooks | Mar 31, 2010 | Essays/Opinions
When I was a child, my parents often told me “Don’t touch” while walking past shelves in a store filled with toys or glassware of different shapes and colors. Of all seasons, Christmas presented the greatest temptation for a tactile-oriented child...
