by Larry Tomczak | Dec 27, 2013 | Articles
Author’s Note: If you are a parent or a youth pastor, I want to encourage you to screen this and then consider reading it to your teens and youth group. Use discretion and skim over words or sections if you think they’re inappropriate or you feel uncomfortable. Just...
by Larry Tomczak | Dec 17, 2013 | Articles
Most people in our culture today enjoy reading Top 10 lists. USA Today regularly publishes them. David Letterman does it nightly. At this time of the year, Barbara Walters always does her 10 Most Fascinating People television special. Wikipedia’s research and...
by Larry Tomczak | Dec 4, 2013 | Articles
Astronomical federal deficit. Skyrocketing national debt. Obamacare and what lies (no pun intended) ahead. Escalating health care costs. Mushrooming taxes and hidden fees. Downsizing and pension cutbacks. Food and education increases. “Spread the wealth”...
by Larry Tomczak | Nov 25, 2013 | Articles
If you’re like me, you appreciate practical tools to help you in your Christian life. With Thanksgiving approaching, here’s a gift to enable you to cultivate grateful hearts in those with whom you gather.First of all, living in our increasingly secular...
by Larry Tomczak | Nov 19, 2013 | Articles
Mr. President, I thank you for this opportunity to share the following with you. After graduating from Cleveland State University, where I was privileged to serve as the president of our student body, I was selected for a post at the AFL-CIO headquarters across the...
by Larry Tomczak | Nov 12, 2013 | Articles
President Obama’s former bodyguard stated last week something many are starting to realize: It’s worse than people know. This man has been privy to the most in-depth conversations in the Oval Office and shudders at what he has heard. To this statement, he...
by Larry Tomczak | Nov 5, 2013 | Articles
It seems not a week goes by where we don’t read the account of some high-profile pastor, politician, celebrity or local leader who has succumbed to the seduction ofadultery. Add to this the reports that flow in the office, on the campus or in our neighborhoods,...
by Larry Tomczak | Oct 30, 2013 | Articles
The smash hit of the Sundance Film Festival, Blue Is the Warmest Color, was given the highest warning a “legitimate” film can get by the MPAA, due to its sexually explicit content concerning a lesbian relationship. Since the MPAA warning is basically a...
by Larry Tomczak | Oct 23, 2013 | Articles
When I lived in Atlanta, my favorite restaurant was Fuddruckers. I could get an inexpensive and healthy meal plus have a good chat with my manager friend. One day, he told me something that I’ve never forgotten. He told me he grew up in New Orleans and that...
by Larry Tomczak | Sep 11, 2013 | Articles
Grab a seat. This one is hard to believe. Many newspapers across our country feature a weekly human interest story about newlyweds and how they found love. The New York Times is no different with their “Vows” section. Recently Udonis Haslem, NBA star for the Miami...