At our weekly Good News Club meetings at E. Rivers, the children have the opportunity to write down their praise and prayer requests, for which the club leaders pray during the week. The prayer requests are varied: asking God for help in school, for their parents getting a job or promotion, for good health for grandparents, for safety, confessing sin…
Lawyers are everybody’s favorite target of jokes. In our increasing litigious culture they are frequently lambasted by comedians and cartoonists, and often don’t do well in surveys of professions the public holds in high regard (clergy don’t rank very high in public esteem either!). Both my grandfather and great-grandfather, as well as my uncle, on my mother’s side were lawyers.…
