Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Purpose or Direction

Your problem is that you simply have no purpose or direction”. One day when I was living in California I realized I had piled way...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

I’ll Hear Jesus

Some evangelists are too emotional for me. They think their way with words, the clever way they coin a phrase and how they say what it is they...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Up to Bat: A Deliberate Purposeful Act

No sir, when I leave this game my participation will be seen has having been a deliberate, purposeful act, bringing to me the understanding...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Hurt’s My Thing

But hurt's my thing … it's my home, it's the only thing I know. I'm safe and sound and sure of myself when pain's...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

A Band of Brothers and a Hall of Fame

In order to confirm how I felt about what I saw, I took a closer look at the purpose of the Hall of Fame...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

The Wade’s of Russell Springs

You never know who you're talking with when you're talking to a child. They may be a professional athlete some day, the one who...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

A Glimpse of Manhood

For the first time in my life it occurred to me that a man was not just a taller, older boy. A man had...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

One Breath Away

I couldn't see why anyone would visit someone who was at home sick in bed. They need their rest, the peace and the quiet....
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Get Up and Live

All I can remember wanting when I was a kid was to face the day ahead and see my way through it. Early one...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

My Last Arena

  What time in life should you consider yourself a man? Is 'becoming a man' something that just happens to you? Maybe it's after an accomplishment...
Books By Duke Tirschel

With Each Breath

Preface: After writing, Tang Soo Do Karate and Toughen-Up for Chuck Norris I began writing short stories that reflected actual experiences in my life. But, before publishing them I...
Duke Tirschel

You Are You And You Always Were You!

He said, "Richard, you are you and you always were you. You're not what you do or what you call yourself...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Aged To Perfection

A Robert Browning verse has been in my head lately, "The best is yet to be, the last of life for which the first...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Here Is Your Life

God is giving my unborn daughter instructions before handing her the life within which she is to be born. Sweetheart, here is your life. You will...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

For Mike Genova its about Paying It Forward

The pay it forward concept in the movie, Pay It Forward, wasn't revolutionary. The Paying It Forward concept has a firm foundation in history.
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

In God’s Corner

My name is Shelly Loven, I am Chuck Loven's daughter. He passed away on October 6th and his Memorial Service was on October 23rd....