Jack Mccall

A few years back Kathy and I were in San Antonio, Texas where I was speaking for a conference. While there, it was recommended to us that we take in the Alamo Creek General Store and Café in Fredericksburg, Texas. Since Fredericksburg was only 50 miles north, we decided...

If my late mother said it once, she said it a thousand times – “Lord, have mercy!”. Mercy is closely akin to grace. In many of his greetings to the churches, Paul, the apostle, included the words “mercy” and “grace.” A simple definition of grace is “unmerited favor.” Webster defines mercy as “compassionate leniency toward a wrongdoer or enemy.”

I have come to the conclusion that good manners and appropriate language are never out of place. In the house where I grew up, we answered our father in the affirmative by responding, “Yes, sir,” and in the negative by saying, “No, sir.” Likewise, we answered our mother in the affirmative by saying, “Yes, ma’am,” and in the negative by responding, “No, ma’am.”