Laughing at Ourselves
My wife and I are polar opposites when it comes to embarrassing moments. She is like an embarrassing moment magnet whereas I can count on one hand the number of embarrassing moments I’ve had in my lifetime. So when I do have an embarrassing moment my wife relishes the occasion and reminds me of it frequently, in love →
Misery Meets Grace
My eleventh Christmas started out as the worst Christmas experience of my life. That was the year I had the bright idea that it would be fun to secretly find out what all my presents were before Christmas morning. So, two weeks prior to Christmas I snuck into my parent’s room and spoiled the surprise. Waking up that Christmas →
Spoiling Christmas
At the age of eleven I went through a phase in which I just needed to know what I was getting for Christmas before Christmas morning. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to know these secrets in my younger years; it’s just that my methods became a little less conventional. In earlier years I would simply find out what my →
Caught with Our Hands in the Banana Jar
Perhaps you’ve heard the old story of the scientists who placed a banana in a jar and placed the jar inside a monkey’s cage. The opening of the jar was large enough so the monkey could slip his hand down in the jar and grasp the banana but when the monkey tried to remove his hand with banana in →
Beyond My Control
The older I get the more and more I realize there are many things in life that are beyond my control. Yet, I find myself trying on a regular basis to control many of them. What I have also realized is this is a phenomenon that is shared by many of my fellow human beings. Take time for example. →
Time
Life is busy. It seems there aren’t enough hours in the day to maneuver, better yet cram, everything in that is screaming for a slot on the docket. And no matter who you are, no matter what you do, we all have the same amount of time allotted to us each day, 24 hours or 1,440 minutes or 86,400 seconds. →
upcoming prayer series questions
I am going to be doing a Sunday morning series on prayer in the coming months and was wondering if you could give me a hand. What are your questions about prayer? What confusions do you have? Do you pray? What have you found most effective in your prayer life? Basically just give me some →
Contagious Passion
I had the privilege of spending the day at the Billy Graham Library. It was such a humbling and inspiring experience. As I walked through each room and soaked in all the information my mind just kept going back to the singular passion of this man. Billy Graham was all about winning souls for Jesus Christ and that passion is →
Learning Curves
Why is it that things always seem to be so much more difficult than first imagined? Maybe it's just me but it seems as though help pages and tutorials are written by people who are experts for people who are experts. I have been trying for almost a week now to upload my messages to this blog and at every →
Finally!!!!
Lately I feel like everything I am setting out to do is sitting around half finished. It's not because of a lack of effort. Instead it just seems like there has been roadblocks, conundrums, and snags of all sorts. So it is with a deep sigh of relief that I can finally type in my web address and actually see →
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