It's Like Herding Cats

I used to work for the world's biggest advertiser. We spent more money in more ways that anyone on the planet to get our product...

It's Sunday morning, I'm in my favorite place getting ready to do what God has called me to do. And yet I am fighting waves of...

Dr. Combs and one of my students who mastered her Math fundamentals. Who knew? I decided to go all out trying to get my kids to learn...

It was the Friday before our week of state high-stakes testing called the FCAT. The pressure on kids and teachers was building minut...

"It's over." "He's gone." We miss it almost every year. We forget that the people we read about in the a...

36  Then Jesus went with them to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and he said, “Sit here while I go over there to pray.” 37  He took Pe...

Was just sitting here while  the TV plays in the background and thinking about music for Easter Sunday, our Good Friday service, my ...

They say Julius Caesar fought a very short war in Turkey and when someone asked him about it, he very uncharacteristically (Caesar li...

  Well, it finally happened. Those of you who know me well will laugh (maybe even out loud) when I write that I cleaned up my office this...

The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars. Johnny Cash We watched "Walk the Line" years ago and were moved by th...

I'm sitting in the lobby here at  New Hope Baptist Valparaiso .  In front of me is a bulletin board filled with faces of kids people...

When I looked at this week's Scripture, I knew that all I had to do was get out of God's way and let the Scripture speak. It's a...

These two just met each other. One of the girls was new to us yesterday - a transfer from another school in the district. They are new to...

I know, I know - I haven't been writing as frequently as I once did. To think that this is the same guy who wrote a devotional every day...

It's Sunday! Due to the jumbled and chaotic nature of life since school started and I started teaching, I appreciate the weekends m...

"Some days are diamonds, and some days are stones..." Double heaping serving of the latter please, with sprinkles of bitter d...

Christmas Eve at the Wilson's and the simplicity of the coming of the Prince of Peace is what's on my mind. At New Hope, we don...

The late Vance Havner said "If you do not come apart, you will come apart." I guess that's why teachers get a break a...

Thinking about it this week, joy is what's missing from Christmas for so many. We get so caught up in forcing happiness into what ...

I've been sitting here this rare afternoon in my office at church and reading the Scriptures and listening to Handel's Messiah. Oh...