It's Like Herding Cats

One of the people whose works and writings have profoundly affected my view of God, or of following Jesus, and who still inspire me is ...

So, You Want To Be A Pastor...   One day as Jesus was walking along the shore beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers--Simon, also...

There are a lot of people who can work hard for a while, care for a while, love for a while, give of themselves for a while. They leave b...

With desperate and hungry people camped all over the church lawn, Jesus turns, then and now, to his followers and speaks what is...

Do just the opposite of what the world calls you to do. Dive deep into a community of people who call themselves a church. Expose your ...

Our friends Larry and JoAnn have a dog that is nearing the point of death as I write this and it's tearing them up. His furry friend h...

Many years ago, there was a ridiculously young couple who had their first child. He was a healthy boy, and he was named David Adam. I was ...

You're reading the very first devotional I have ever written using the Windows 10 operating system. For the less geeky among us, th...

I've been sitting here reading a laminated card that someone put together to explain how a person can be saved (or begin a relationshi...

Here below find the words of John Baillie as written in his "A Diary of Private Prayer." The language may be archaic at tim...

          Fred Craddock often told the wonderful story about that remarkable evening during his childhood when his father called hi...

This good day, it is a gift from You The world is turning in its place Because You made it to I lift my voice to sing a song of ...

“We want our children to know and believe the one good story. Every other story is a copy or shadow of this one. Some copies of it are qu...

When you get a Family Tree DNA kit for Father's Day from your family, you could probably guess that history matters to us. Not just h...

It's been hard these last few years since my Daddy passed away. It's no problem to fix the date that he left this world for the next...

We've been wandering through Romans on Wednesday night for 14 weeks now, and we hit a bump in the road two weeks ago. I knew goin...

We're sure going to miss her. I don't know how many people I have talked to since Jimmie's passing who didn't say t...

The school year is like the baseball season - it seemingly goes on forever. And also like baseball, the significance of any one day or ga...

As a young boy, I read every Superman comic I could plead for, later enjoyed the works of Mark Twain, and others who took me to places an...