by Mike Woodruff | Feb 27, 2013 | Our Society
My apologies to those of you who may have seen this already. I had not. It takes quite a recommendation for me to watch a video. This received one. I watched and think enough of it to pass it along. It’s about a high school football game in Grapevine, Texas between...
by Mike Woodruff | Feb 26, 2013 | People
Dr. Howard Hendricks—“Prof”—died last week. It is estimated that during his sixty years of teaching at Dallas Theological Seminary he had 13,000 students. I was not one of them, but I heard him speak in person several times back when I was in college, was influenced...
by Mike Woodruff | Feb 25, 2013 | Pop Culture
I did not watch the Oscars last night, but I overheard enough about them today—especially from the woman sitting in the booth next to mine at Panera Bread—to know a few things: Argo won best picture; Ang Lee won best director; Michele Obama presented an award; Seth...
by Mike Woodruff | Feb 13, 2013 | Lent, The Church Year
Next Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent—the forty-day period between Ash Wednesday and Maundy Thursday that leads to Good Friday and Easter. Many set aside these six weeks for extra prayer, repentance, reflection and self-denial, doing so with the hope that they...