Author Archive | Charles G. Mickey

“Home” is the word that, for many of us, brings to mind wonderful memories. If you were blessed with a good family of origin, your home was the key place where you learned about love and security, discipline, sharing, forgiving and many other crucial parts of life. When you leave home, whether for a short […]

Justin John Boudin is a 27-year-old in St. Paul, Minnesota, who lost his temper at a bus stop in August 2007. According to witnesses, he harassed a 59-year-old woman, yelling, “Why don’t you show me some respect?” When she took out her cell phone to call police, he punched her in the face. A 63-year-old […]

There’s much interest these days in presenting your case as a story to convince the jury. We all like a good story. Jesus liked the idea 2000 years ago and He often used stories to teach powerful lessons. We call them parables and several are clustered in Matthew 13. Two of these are very short […]

Alcides Moreno and Humpty Dumpty both had a great fall.  Al fell 47 stories while working as a window washer on a Manhatten skyscraper on Dec. 7, 2007.  His brother died instantly when their scaffolding fell, but somehow he survived the fall of nearly 500 feet.  Guess you might say all the king’s doctors and […]

Have you read the story of Irena Sadler?  Irena saved 2,500 children from the Nazi death camps during WWII.  A Catholic nurse in Warsaw, Poland, in 1940, she lived near a neighborhood walled off by the Nazis.  They pressed almost 500,000 people into a very small area and 5,000 were dying each month for lack […]

R.C. Rivera joined CTLA in October 2006, one of only about a dozen members who are not attorneys.  A former pastor, he was then owner/operator of Atlas Pro Serve & Associates, with a powerful testimony, which he shared with me over lunch.  He was enthusiastic to be one of our 2007 seminar sponsors and gave me his […]

The fifth book of the New Testament does more than record the “Acts of the Apostles.”  Luke’s spotlight really only shines on two of the apostles, Peter and Paul, but he focuses more on the Holy Spirit and His actions in the early church.  A recent reading of the book brought several lessons to my […]

When I visited the Christian school where both my grandsons attend, I got to visit with the high school boys’ Bible teacher in his classroom.  He is John Wetteland, best known as MVP in the 1996 World Series as closing pitcher for the Yankees, who pitched for the Rangers through 2000.  He told my daughter […]

What do you do when you don’t like the way things are going? If you’re in charge, you may be able to make a change, but what if you’re not in charge? What if the situation is totally out of your hands, as it often is? Eder Rojas, 19, was a flight attendant for Compass […]

In November 2007, Finley Crampton was born a healthy boy in London, 3 weeks premature, at 6 lb. 3 oz. Nothing too unusual about that, until you hear the odds he beat. His mother Jodie decided to abort him at 8 weeks because she carries a gene which triggers multicystic dysplastic kidney (MCDK) which is […]