Christmas is just around the corner, and so we have dusted off our growing stack of manger scenes. I think I'd leave them up all year ...

I'm not very good at saying      What I've got upon my mind. For better ways I now am praying      To say these things the words ...

Congratulations to  Kavya Shivashankar. The thirteen-year-old from Kansas who spelled all her words out in her hand as she spelled her way t...

I must admit that I have been a little jealous as of late. I'm prone to it, being a preacher and all. The earliest bouts with the green-...

And now I feel really old. Some fifteen years ago (or so) I was serving as a youth minister at a church. At a national youth ministers' ...

It's been two years since I posted a happy/sad announcement about the funeral services of my Aunt Laura Allen . Tomorrow, my family will...

[Again, you can find this post duplicated at Loom & Wheel Words .] Following his pattern of developing ideas through questioning, Craig ...

This week I will be traveling, so posting will be sporadic at best. My blushing bride and I will be attending the Southern Baptist Conventio...

The Season is officially upon us. At my wife's suggestion, I got to put up and decorate the Christmas tree this weekend. I know, I know,...